Improvements in Covers or Receptacles for Enclosing Tins and Pots of Conserved Alimentary Substances and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1892-Accepted, 2nd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Covers or Receptacles for Enclosing Tins and Pots
of Conserved Alimentary Substances and the like.
I, DAVID STEPHEN PAGE, of Cham, in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland,
Assistant General Manager of the Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk Company of
Cham, Switzerland, Condensed Milk Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to covers or receptacles such as are generally made of
porcelain, earthenware, glass, for holding tins, and pots of condensed milk,
preserved provisions, and the like, and which form a more or less ornamental cover,
in which the generally unsightly tin, jar, or other original package is placed for
the purpose of being brought to table.
Such vessels are generally made in two pieces, viz. a receptacle, the lower part of
which often takes the form of a plate, or dish-like rim, and a lid.
With such vessels some trouble often occurs in getting the original package into
the receptacle, or, when empty, removing it.
Now according to my invention I make my improved receptacles in three pieces
viz. the dish or plate forming the base, a tubular vessel open at both ends to rest on
such base and forming the body of the receptacle, and a lid or cover of ordinary
construction.
The dish or plate forming the base may be made with a suitable annular rim,
ridge, or two of them, or a groove on or into, or between which the vessel fits, or
for such rim, or groove, there may be substituted three or more studs, or
projections serving to hold the receptacle in position on the plate.
The body piece of the receptacle may be either of circular section (i.e. cylindrical)
or of square or parallelogrammic section, with rounded corners, or otherwise,
according to the shape of the package it is intended to hold, for instance, if intended
to hold a tin of condensed milk, it would be cylindrical, if intended for a tin of
sardines, it would be of parallelogrammic section, and so forth. The lid may be
similar to those usually made for vessels intended for the same purpose.
This invention gives great facility for the placing of the tin, jar, or the like,
within the receptacle, and for removing it; for instance, instead of being dropped
into the receptacle, the tin or jar may be placed on the base and the receptacle
placed over it, and it also affords ready access to every part for the purpose of
cleansing.
Dated the Second day of March 1892.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Covers or Receptacles for Enclosing Tins and Pots
of Conserved Alimentary Substances and the like.
I, DAVID STEPHEN PAGE, of Cham, in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland,
Assistant General Manager of the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company of
Cham, Switzerland, Condensed Milk Manufacturers, 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 :-
My invention relates to covers, or receptacles, such as are generally made of
porcelain, earthenware, glass, for holding tins, and pots of condensed milk, preserved
provisions, and the like, and which form a more or less ornamental cover, in which

page_text: the generally unsightly tin, jar, or other original package is placed for the purpose
of being brought to table.
Such vessels are generally made in two pieces, ris. a receptacle, the lower part of
which often takes the form of a plate, or dish-like rim, and a lid.
With such vessels some trouble often occurs in getting the original package into
the receptacle, or, when empty, removing it.
Now according to my invention I make my improved receptacles in three pieces,
viz. the dish, or plate, forming the base, a tubular vessel open at both ends to rest.
on such base, and forming the body of the receptacle, and a lid, or cover, of
ordinary construction.
The dish, or plate, forming the base, may be made with a suitable annular rim,
ridge, or two of them, or a groove on, or into, or between which the vessel fits, or
for such rim, or groove, there may be substituted three or more studs, or
projections, serving to hold the receptacle in position on the plate.
The body piece of the receptacle may be either of circular section (i.e. cylindrical)
or of square or parallelogrammic section, with rounded corners, or otherwise,
according to the shape of the package it is intended to hold, for instance, if intended
to hold a tin of condensed milk, it would be cylindrical, if intended for a tin of
sardines, it would be of parallelogrammic section, and so forth. The lid may be
similar to those usually made for vessels intended for the same purpose.
In the accompanying drawings I have represented such a receptacle according to
my invention intended to contain a tin of condensed milk.
Fig. 1, is an elevation thereof.
Fig. 2, is a plan; and Fig. 3, is a vertical section of the same showing a can
within it.
A is the dish, forming the base, or stand. B is a cylinder open at both ends
and C is the lid; D is a can, in this case a tin of condensed milk, but it will be
obvious that such receptacle may be made of other shape to hold other shaped
cans such for instance as boxes of sardines, tins of potted fish, meat, fruit or the
like.
The base or dish A is made with rabbets, grooves, ridges, knobs or the like,
which serve to keep the piece B, and the contained can D, concentric with the
dish A, and with each other.
The form, shown in section in Fig. 3, is that which I prefer, in which e is an
annular rabbet within which the piece B rests, and f is another annular depression,
or rabbet, within which the can rests.
In some cases, more particularly where special facilities for cleaning are required
I make, instead of the continuous annular rabbets e. f, a series of three or more
knobs or projections in the place of, and answering the purpose of the rabbets
shown in the drawing.
It will be readily understood that the tubular piece B being independent of, and
detachable from the base or dish A affords facilities for the introduction of cans,
the removal of empty ones, and the cleaning of the receptacle which cannot be
obtained with the like vessels as hitherto constructed with the parts A and B made
in one piece, and inseparable.
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. A. cover, or receptacle for cans of preserved provisions and the like consisting
of a base A, tubular portion B open at both ends, and lid C, substantially as
described.
Dated the Thirtieth day of April 1892
DAVID STEPHEN PAGE.