Improvements in Caps or Covers for Pots, Jars, and like Vessels.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 27th May, 1899
Improvements in Caps or Covers for Pots, Jars, and like Vessels.
I, WILLIAM LANE, Dentist, of 1, Poet's Road, Highbury New Park, in the
County of Middlesex, 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 improvements in caps and covers for use in connection
with jars or pots for containing medicine, perfumery, powders, ointment, and
other substances, the object being to produce a dust proof, damp proof supple-
mentary cap which will dispense with the present methods of covering such
vessels with paper prior to the lid or solid cover being applied to the pot or vessel.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings
Figure 1 is a side elevation and
Figure 2 a plan of one form of my improved cover.
Figure 3 is a plan of my improved cover with an advertisement and device
formed thereon.
Figure 4 is a view showing a lid and my improved cover in section in position
upon an ordinary earthenware pot.
Figure 5 is a plan of my cover with circular corrugations or ribs formed
thereon.
In carrying my invention into effect I make my covering cap A from paper
or other suitable material, preferably grease proof, and I prefer to form it of
crinkled or corrugated section for the purpose of strengthening the cap when
made and for producing a pleasing effect or design on its surface.
I press my cap up in the form of a dish like receptacle having the upper
surface to rest upon the upper rim F of the pot or vessel D while the rim like
band or edge C of the cap passes round the neck of the bottles or pot D in such
a manner that when the cover or lid E is placed thereon the bottom portion of the
side rim C will be pressed outwards and made to rest upon the ring like edge
of the pot upon which the neck of the cover will rest so that the cover rim will
rest upon a ring like band C of the paper or material which lies between it and
the upper surface of the body of the pot. I prefer to make my covers or caps
with the projecting edge or rim C pressed out from the vertical ring forming the
band of the cover-although I may make them as caps A B without rims C when
desired. I may attach a preparation to the under side of the outer rim C of the cover
or to the upper edge F of the neck of the pot upon which the rim rests so as to
cause the loose cap to adhere to the rim and thus to seal, or when desired to
hermetically close the upper surface of the pot or vessel.
may form upon the surface of the cap of crinkled or other paper or suitable
material an embossed trade mark or device, or with letters or characters for
displaying the name of any particular manufacturer or proprietor or for like
advertisement purposes.
I do not limit the application of my invention to any special method of pressing
up or stamping my paper or other material washers or sheets into ring like caps

page_text: or covers or to any special material to be used for the preparation and production
of such supplementary caps or covers.
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. The improved supplementary covering or cap for attaching to pots, jars,
and like vessels substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 18th day of April 1899.
MARKS & CLERK.
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and 25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents.