IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC CANS AND SUCH LIKE RECEPTACLES, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME.
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Glenny Scott Anderson, of London, Gentleman, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC CANS AND
SUCH LIKE RECEPTACLES, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
MANUFACTURING THE SAME.' A communication from abroad by Thomas
Thall of Montreal
"
Sealed the 18th June 1878, and dated the 11th January 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Glenny Scott Anderson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th January 1878.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
GLENNY SCOTT ANDERSON, of London, Gentleman.
MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC CANS AND SUCH LIKE RECEPTACLES, AND IN THE
A communication
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME."
from abroad by Thomas Turnbull, of Montreal.
The first part of this Invention consists in improvements in the construction of
metallic cans or receptacles used or employed for packing or otherwise containing
articles of food, pasting, paint, or such like and other compositions, and relates to
improved means for securing the head or cover thereof.
In cans constructed according to this Invention the "chimb" is made deeper
than the head or cover, and by turning a small portion of the "chimb" down over
the head or cover in one or more places the cover is held secure, and hermetically
seals the contents.
The second portion of this Invention relates to the use or employment of an
improved shear for cutting the small portion of the "chimb" which is turned down
upon the coverlid to form the fastening, and there is attached to or otherwise formed
upon the extremities of the blades of the shears a flat plate or piece of metal to form
the cutting instrument, which is thus formed of two cutting parallel sides attached

page_text: to one-half of the shears, the intermediate oblong piece attached to the other side
forming the corresponding cutting edges, the plates being placed angularly but
parallel to and with each other.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Glenny Scott Anderson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th July
1878.
GLENNY SCOTT ANDERSON, of London, Gentleman. " IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC CANS AND SUCH LIKE RECEPTACLES, AND IN THE
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME." A communication
from abroad by Thomas Turnbull, of Montreal.
The first part of this Invention consists in improvements in the construction of
metallic cans or receptacles used and employed for packing or otherwise containing
articles of food, pasting, paint, or such like and other compositions, and relates to
improved means for securing the head or cover thereof.
In cans constructed according to this Invention the "chimb " is made deeper than
the head or cover, and by turning a small portion of the "chimb" down over the
head or cover in one or more places the cover is held secure, and hermetically seals
the contents, when the solder is applied in the usual way.
The second portion of this Invention relates to the use or employment of an improved
shear for cutting the small portion of the "chimb" which is turned down upon the
coverlid to form the fastening, and there is attached to or otherwise formed upon
the extremities of the blades of the shears a flat plate or piece of metal to form the
cutting instrument, the plates being placed angularly but parallel to and with each
other, which is thus formed of two cutting parallel sides attached to one-half of the
shears, the intermediate oblong piece attached to the other side forming the corre-
sponding cutting edges.
In the Drawing accompanying and forming part of this Specification is repre-
sented in Figure 1 a pair of shears for cutting the chimb a, a, the two cutting edges
b, b, the cutting edges of the plate shutting down between a and a.
Figure 2 shews a piece of tin plate nicked at d and d by the action of the
shears.
And Figure 3 an unheaded can shewing the chimb cut at d, d, ready to be turned
down when the head is inserted.
Having now described and particularly set forth the nature of the said Invention,
and the manner of carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim is,-
First. Construction of cans for the purposes described, wherein the head is fas-
tened down by turning down a portion of the chimb, substantially as described.

page_text: Second. The apparatus or shears shewn in Figure 1, substantially as described
for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Glenny Scott Anderson, have hereunto Bet
my hand and seal, this Third day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
GLENNY SCOTT ANDERSON. (L.s.)