IMPROVEMENTS IN CANS AND OTHER VESSELS FOR CONTAINING LIQUID AND OTHER SUBSTANCES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Newton, of the Office for
Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
- Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CANS AND OTHER
VESSELS FOR CONTAINING LIQUID AND OTHER SUBSTANCES."-A communi-
cation from abroad by Frederick William Devoe, of the City and
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 2nd June 1868.-
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CANS AND OTHER
VESSELS FOR CONTAINING LIQUID AND OTHER SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
I
The first part of this Invention relates to a method of forming the
seams at the junction of the sides of cans of square or other. prismatic
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page_text: form, such as are used for the transportation of refined petroleum and
other liquids, but which may be used for containing other substances,
whereby greater strength and stiffness are obtained than by any of the
usual methods of forming angular seams in tin plate and other sheet
metal. This part of the Invention consists in a peculiar corrugated
construction of and method of fitting together the marginal portions
of the adjacent plates which form the sides of the can, and which are
united by solder to form the the seam, whereby these portions are made
to lap each other in such manner as to be mutually sustaining, and form
a rounded column or pillar-like double structure at the junction of the
sides.
The second part of the Invention is intended to obviate the incon-
venience experienced by dealers in and
by dealers in and consumers of such liquids as
petroleum, benzine, and spirits of turpentine, owing to the difficulty of
obtaining tight caps or stoppers to the nozzles or necks of the cans or
other vessels in which such liquids are commonly sold. This improve-
ment consists in closing the nozzle at
at the bottom with a plate,
diaphragm, or piece of metal or other suitable material, which may be
easily removed by a pocket knife or other cutting instrument without
injuring the nozzle when it is designed to open the vessel, and which
also converts the nozzle into a box, within which may be placed a
circular or paper of printed directions for the opening of the vessel, or
for the use of its contents or anything else which it may be desirable
to insert.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 2nd December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give

page_text: and grant unto me, the said William Edward Newton, Her special
licence that I, the said William Edward Newton, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I. the said William Edward
Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CANS AND OTHER VESSELS FOR CONTAINING
LIQUID AND OTHER SUBSTANCES," being a communication to me from
Frederick William Devoe, of the City, County, and State of New York,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward.
Newton, my executors ог administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that
is to say):
The first part of this Invention relates to a method of forming the
seams at the junction of the sides of cans of square or other prismatic
form, such as are used for the transportion of refined petroleum and
other liquids, but which may be used for containing other substances.
The object of the Invention is to obtain greater strength and stiffness
than by the usual methods of forming angular seams in tin plate and
other sheet metal, and whereby also an inferior quality of tin plate to
that required when sharp angular seams may be employed without
injuriously impairing the strength of the can.
consists in a peculiar corrugated construction of and method of fitting
together the marginal portions of the adjacent plates which form the
sides of the can, and which are united by solder to form the seam,
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page_text: as to be mutually sustaining, and will form a rounded column or pillar-
like double structure at the junction of the sides.
nozzle with a knife,
The second part of the Invention is intended to obviate the in-
convenience experienced by dealers in and consumers of such liquids
as petroleum, benzine, and spirits of turpentine, owing to the difficulty
of obtaining tight caps or stoppers to the nozzles or necks of the cans or
other vessels in which such liquids are commonly sold. It is practically
impossible to obtain caps or stoppers which can of themselves be made
perfectly tight, and if gaskets of india-rubber or other material he
applied to them these are liable to be destroyed by or to injure the
liquid. With a view to obviate these difficulties screw nozzles have
been made of sheet metal without any opening at the top, the opening
requiring to be made after taking off the screw cap. when the liquid
is to be poured out by cutting out the top of the
but this construction is liable to the objection that in cutting out
the metal the screw of the nozzle is liable to be injured, so that the
cap cannot afterwards be properly applied. The object of this part of
the Invention is to obtain a nozzle which is absolutely tight until the
vessel is required to be opened, and which can be opened without injury,
so that it may be afterwards closed tightly by the cap. This improve-
ment consists in closing the nozzle at the bottom with a plate diaphragm
or piece of metal or other suitable material, which may be easily removed
by a pocket knife or other cutting instrument without injuring the
nozzle when it is designed to open the vessel, and which also converts
the nozzle into a box, within which may be placed a circular or paper
of printed directions for the opening of the vessel, or for the use of its
contents, or anything else which it may be desirable to insert.
The first part of the Invention is illustrated in Figures 2 and 3 of the
accompanying Drawings, in which Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of a
square can, and Fig. 3 a horizontal section of one of the joints or seams
formed between two sides of the can drawn on an enlarged scale.
a and bare the corrugations in the marginal portions of the plates
extending from top to bottom of the can. The corrugations a next the
edges of the plates present on their exterior surfaces a salient, curvature,
and the corrugations b which are further from the edges present on
their outer surfaces a re-entering curvature. The corrugations a of the
two adjacent plates being placed together form a lock capable of resisting
a directly outward pressure against either plate, and when the solder is

page_text: applied along the edges c, c, the corrugations are so united as to form
a double column or pillar-like structure, which gives great strength and
stiffness to the can. The sides of the can when united by this kind of
seam or joint may have the top and bottom united to them by such a
joint as is shewn at d, d, in Fig. 1 (which represents a vertical section-of
a can), or in any other desirable manner.
The second part of the Invention is illustrated in Fig. 1 just mentioned,
and also in Fig. 4, which represents on an enlarged scale a vertical
section of the nozzle with the plate or diaphragm Cattached to its
bottom, but not yet attached to the can; Fig. 5 represents a vertical
section of the joint formed between the nozzle, the plate or diaphragm,
and the head of the can. These views represent this part of the Inven-
tion applied in connection with an ordinary screw nozzle A spun up
from a piece of sheet metal, but the improvement is not limited in its
application to any particular kind of nozzle. The nozzle is soldered to
the head B of the can around the margin of a suitable hole e made
therein in the usual manner, but before it is applied it has attached to
its bottom the plate or diaphragm C, which constitutes the improvement.
This plate or diaphragmn may be attached in various ways, but the most
convenient is to make it with a turned up rim f. f. as shown in Fig. 4,
which will fit tightly over the bottom of the nozzle A. In soldering on
the nozzle to the vessel B care must of course be taken that the solder g,
Fig. 5, is so applied that it entirely covers the rim f. f, and effects the
union of the nozzle itself to the vessel. It will be seen that when the
cap D, Fig. 1, is put on the nozzle the latter being closed at the bottom
forms a closed box for the reception of any small article which it may
be desired to place therein. When it is desired to open the vessel the
cap D is taken off, and the plate or diaphragm C may be cut out with
a pocket knife or other instrument without in any degree injuring the
nozzle, as is likely to be done in cutting out the closed top of an ordinary
nozzle. Instead of a separate plate C being used to form the closed
bottom of the nozzle it might be practicable to form the bottom of the
same piece of metal with the nozzle itself, but it is preferable for several
reasons to adopt the plate C, which may be made of such material and
of such thickness irrespective of the head of the vessel or of the nozzle
as may afford the greatest facility for its being cut out. Instead of the
plate or diaphragm C being attached to the nozzle before the application
of the latter to the can or vessel it may be applied to the hole e (in the

page_text: head of the can or vessel) separately from the nozzle and before the
application of the nozzle thereto. The closed bottom of the nozzle may
have stamped upon it any trade mark or device which would afford
protection against the refilling of the vessel with inferior material for
the purpose of disposal as the original contents.
Having now described the Invention which has been communicated to
me as aforesaid, and having explained the manner of carrying the same
into effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me by Letters Patent,-
First. The joint or seam formed by the union of the corrugated
marginal portions a, b, of the plates forming the sides of the can, as
herein specified.
Second. The nozzle provided with a closed bottom or diaphragm, as
and for the purpose herein described.
In witness whereof, I. the said William Edward Newton. have
hereunto set
set my
my hand and seal, the First day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
Witness.
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
W. E. NEWTON. (L.S.)