[MCINNES ROSS GORDON]

[McINNES, Ross, Gordon] Main Road Waipu 0254 A teat for feeding liquids to animals has fastening means enabling the teat to be fastened to a source of liquid such as a pipe or drum in use to project outwardly from the source. The teat has a resilient outer end (20a) which is closed apart from a slit (16a) in it which slit is itself normally adapted to be closed by the resilience to provide a sufficient liquid seal. The closed outer end is preferably concave, coned, cusped or otherwise re-entrant. Reinforcing means such as webs (15a) are located, preferably internally on either side of the slit so that if the end of the teat is squashed or compressed by sucking forces exerted by the animal, with components along the direction of slit, the reinforcing means causes the slit to be pulled open, thereby allowing liquid to flow out of it in use. The pulling action allows an acceptable flow rate from a comparatively small slit which is less prone to leak than a large slit.

[McInnes, Ross Gordon] 37 Seascape Crescent, Waipu 0582, NZ

[MCINNES ROSS GORDON] NZ

[MCINNES ROSS GORDON] NZ A teat for feeding liquids to animals has fastening means enabling the teat to be fastened to a source of liquid such as pipe or drum in use to project outwardly from the source. The teat is resilient having an outer end (9) which is closed apart from a slit (11) in it which slit is itself normally adapted to be closed to provide a liquid seal. The closed outer end is preferably concave, coned, cusped or otherwise reentrant. Integral reinforcing means such as webs are located internally on either side of the slit so that if the end of the teat is squashed or compressed by sucking forces exerted by the animal with components along the direction of slit, the reinforcing means causes the slit to be stretched open, thereby allowing liquid to flow out of it in use. The pulling or stretching action allows an acceptable flow rate from a comparatively small slit which is less prone to tear than a large split. Also a wall-stiffening web is provided, preferably as a transverse web (101) integral with the reinforcing means webs, extending from at or near the slit towards the inlet end of the teat, to provide internal stiffening, and acting in conjunction with the resilients to hold the slit closed when no sucking is occuring.

[MCINNES ROSS GORDON]

123 Nova Scotia DriveRD 2Waipu 0582 Animal feeding teats are often removed from a feeding receptacle for cleaning or for re-use on a larger receptacle. A nipple end of the teats is typically designed for use in a specific orientation to aid the suckling of a young animal, and therefore the teats need to be fitted to the feeding receptacle correctly. The animal feeding teat according to the present invention has a rectangular connection feature in a base end of the teat that is designed to mate with a similarly shaped feature on a feeding receptacle. It is considered important that the connection feature has only one or two lines of symmetry, so that the teat can only be fitted in one or two orientations relative to the receptacle.

[McINNES, Ross, Gordon] Main Road, Waipu 0254, NZ

[MCINNES ROSS GORDON]

[McINNES, Ross, Gordon] Main Road Waipu 0254 A twin-hulled water craft or catamaran preferably has rotationally moulded plastics hulls (1) and pod (2) preferably with provision for fore and aft adjustment of the hulls with respect to the pod. The craft is hand-steered and preferably hand accelerated. Propulsion is via either an inboard or outboard motor with propeller or water-jet. The rider or riders sit low in the pod behind the steering control and above or before the motor. The hulls (1) are shaped to minimise spray in front of the rider and to allow easy outward sideways skidding. The construction seeks to improve the handling, stability and speed characteristics of this type of craft.