An Improved Air-tight Jar for Pickles, Preserves, Potted Meats, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Nov., 1898-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Air-tight Jar for Pickles, Preserves, Potted Meats,
and the like.
I, ALICE GALLAGHER, 11, Highbury Terrace, Highbury, London, N., do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The jar is made of earthenware or other suitable material in two pieces the top
part or lid being made to screw over the inner or jar proper. An india rubber
ring runs round the outside of the jar resting on a surface formed to receive same
which when pressed by screwing down the lid formes an effecient air-tight joint.
The advantages claimed for this jar are, 1, that it is perfectly air-tight 2, that it
is free from metal of any kind hense no risk of contents becoming contaminatid and
3, being made of earthenware perfect cleanliness is thereby ensured and contents
kept in a sweet and wholesome condition.
Dated 27th day of September 1898.
ALICE
GALLAGHER,
11, Highbury Terrace, Highbury, London, N.
An Improved Air-tight Jar for Pickles, Preserves, Potted Meats,
and the like.
I, ALICE GALLAGHER, of 11, Highbury Terrace, Highbury, London, Spinster, 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 a jar for containing pickles, preserves, potted meats and
other comestibles, and has for its object to provide a jar of this description which
shall be perfectly air-tight and thereby maintain the contents in a sound and whole-
some condition, a result further ensured by there being no metal entering into the
manufacture of such jar.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of
illustrative drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1, is a sectional view of a jar made in accordance with this invention, and
Fig. 2, an elevational view of same.
Referring to the drawings wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts in both figures, a is the lid of the jar, which has a depending rim or flange a¹
running round same, such depending rim or flange being screw-threaded upon its
inner periphery as at a².

page_text: b represents the jar proper, such jar and lid being fashioned of earthenware or
other suitable material. The upper portion of such jar b is screw threaded upon its
outer periphery at 61 for a distance coinciding with that of the screw-threaded
portion a² of the lid a. Below the screw-threaded portion b¹ of the jar, a projection
or flange c is provided, which forms a shoulder or seat upon which is fixed in any
suitable manner a ring of india-rubber or similar yielding material upon which the
lower edge of the depending rim or flange a¹ presses when the lid a is screwed upon
the jar b.
.
From the foregoing, it will be evident that when the lid a is screwed tightly upon
the top of the jar b, the lower edge of the depending flange or rim a¹ of such lid
will press tightly upon the yielding ring d and by thus forming a tight joint, pre-
vent air reaching and spoiling the contents of the jar.
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
The improved air-tight jar for pickles, preserves, potted meats and the like, con-
sisting in a lid a, having a depending rim or flange a¹ which is interiorally screw-
threaded at a²; in combination with a screw-threaded portion 61 around the outer
periphery of the jar b, and a projection or flange c, on upper surface or shoulder of
which is provided a yielding ring d upon which the lower edge of the said depending
rim or flange a tightly presses when the lid is in position, substantially as and for
the purpose described, and as illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of Novambar 1808
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for Applicant.