Improvements in Silver Cans.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Silver Cans.
I, JAMES ANDERTON SUTCLIFFE, of Globe Works, Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, Sheet Metal Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in sliver cans having buffer bottoms
of the kind described in the Specification of my former Patent No. 12,888 of 1889
and consists in making the part referred to in the said specification as the
** bottom of hard drawn (preferably steel) sheet metal in one solid piece with
the binder or strengthening band the latter having heretofore been made sepa-
rately therefrom and of soft metal. The binder part may be corrugated-so as
to further strengthen it either vertically, circumferentially or diagonally,
The above described construction dispenses with soldering or riveting and a
stronger sliver can bottom is produced being less liable to injury than those
having a separate binder heretofore in use made of soft sheet metal."
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Chartered Patent Agent.
I, JAMES ANDERTON Sutcliffe, of Globe Works, Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, Sheet Metal Engineer. do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in sliver caus having buffer bottoms
of the kind described in the Specification of my former Patent No. 12,888 of 1889
and consists in making the part referred to in the said specification as the
bottom," of hard drawn (preferably steel) sheet metal in one solid piece with
the binder or strengthening band, the latter having heretofore been made sepa-
rately therefrom and of soft metal.
The invention will be thoroughly understood from the accompanying drawings
in which Fig. 1 is an elevation of the lower portion of a sliver can with my
improvements applied and Fig. 2 a vertical section of same. In carrying out my
invention and referring to these drawings I make the bottom A of hard drawn

page_text: (preferably steel) sheet metal in one piece with the binder B, the latter having,
as already explained, been heretofore made separately from the bottom A and
of soft metal. The body of the can is brought down to the bend e as usual and
is secured to the binder part B in the ordinary manner. D) is the strengthening
ring, E the false bottom and F the spring forming the buffer bottom, all these
being of the ordinary construction.
Instead of being plain as shown, the binder part B may be corrugated either
vertically as at G, circumferentially as at J, diagonally as at H, or otherwise, in
order to further strengthen the lower portion of the can as will be understood
from Fig. 3. Whilst I prefer to employ one or other of these classes of corruga-
tions by themselves I would have it understood that I may combine either form
of corrugation with one of the others or with the other two.
The above described construction dispenses with soldering or riveting and a
stronger sliver can bottom is produced being less liable to injury than those
having the separate binder heretofore in use made of soft sheet metal, besides
which the can has a much neater appearance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
.
1. In sliver cans such as referred to in Patent No. 12,888 of the year 1889, the
use of a bottom such as A, formed in one piece with the binder B and made of
hard drawn (preferably steel) sheet metal, substantially as described.
2. In buffer bottom sliver cans the combination with the body C, of the can,
strengthening ring 1), false bottom E and spring F, of a bottom A formed in one
solid piece with the binder Band made of hard drawn (preferably steel) sheet
metal substantially as described and shown in the accompanying drawings, either
with reference to Figs. 1 and 2 or Fig. 3.
Doted this 20th day of September 1808