Patent Application
20170079888
Field of the Disclosure
The disclosure relates to bottle holding devices and more particularly pertains to a new bottle holding device wearable by a person for holding a bottle adjacent to a face of a child while the person is feeding the child.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a harness configured to be placed on an upper torso of an adult. The harness has a back side and a front side and a front strap is attached front side of the harness. A saddle is mounted on the front strap. The saddle is configured to releasably receive a bottle. The saddle is rotatable with respect to the front strap.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A saddle 28 is mounted on the front strap 24 and is configured to releasably receive a bottle 30. The saddle 28 includes a bottom wall 32 and a back wall 34 that is attached to and extends upwardly from the bottom wall 32. A pair of lateral walls 35 is attached to the back wall 34 and extends forwardly therefrom. The lateral walls 35 each have a distal edge 36 with respect to the back wall 34. The lateral walls 35 arc towards each other from the back wall 34 to the distal edges 36 such that the lateral walls will 34 extend partially around the bottle 30 when the bottle 30 is placed on the bottom wall 32. The lateral walls 34 are comprised of a resiliently bendable material to facilitate frictionally engaging the bottle 30. A mount 38 is attached to the back wall 34 and the mount 38 engages the strap 24. The mount 38 is rotatable with respect to the front strap 24. This may be done any number of conventional manners such as, for instance, having the mount 38 comprise a female receiver 40 which receives a ball shaped male coupler 42 that is extendable into the female receiver 40 and which allows the female receiver 40 to rotate on the male coupler 42. The mount 38 may be positioned on the buckle 26.
In use, the harness 12 is placed on the adult in a conventional manner such that the saddle 28 is positioned below the face of the child. A bottle 30 is then placed in the saddle 28 so that it is easily accessible to the child being held by the adult. The saddle 28 is rotatable to allow the bottle to be rotated to either side depending on how the adult is holding the child. The saddle 28 prevents the need of the adult having to hold the bottle while feeding the child.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
