Mapa Gmbh Gummi- Und Plastikwerke

Horst Frodrich

Lutz Kesselring

A feeding teat comprises a tip portion and a lower opening for connection to a container and is formed with an external recess, which is substantially wedge-shaped in cross-section and closed from the interior of the teat and constitutes a guide for an opening instrument. Such feeding teat and an opening instrument are held in a common holder. The common holder may consist of a cover and may be provided near one open end of the cover with clipping means for retaining the opening instrument.

Feeding teat, opening instrument and holder

A pacifier or dummy includes a resilient nipple, a guard, and a plug body inserted into the end of the tubular portion of the nipple that is opposite to the mouthpiece. The plug body is carried by a base, which is supported by the guard and is resilient in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the nipple. The plug has projections, which are particularly formed with beveled surfaces and movable along the axis of the nipple. The guard is provided with beveled surfaces adjacent to an opening in the guard. In response to a pull on the nipple, the base is resiliently deformed and the projections of the plug move toward the beveled surfaces of the guard. The plug body has outwardly protruding projections, which are oversize with respect to the clearance between lugs formed on the guard in the opening.

Pacifier

A mounting assembly for infants' soothing teats comprising a teat nipple with an integral shaft portion made of an elastic material, a clamp member inserted into the shaft portion of the teat nipple, and a shield type mouth plate mounted on the shaft portion of the teat nipple wherein the clamp member includes an abutment surface and one or a plurality of integral yieldably movable locking elements adapted to cooperate with the abutment surface to safely retain the soothing teat assembly in its assembled relationship. The locking elements may consist either of articulated lugs being biased into a predetermined locking position by their inherent resiliency, or of slidably movable wedge members adapted to be selectively adjusted into a retaining position.

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Zeven, Germany

Horst Frodrich