Improvements in Boxes, Canisters, or other Receptacles for Holding Alimentary and other Substances.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1887.
Complete Left, 27th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 27th May, 1887.
Improvements in Boxes, Canisters, or other Receptacles for Holding
Alimentary and other Substances.
I, DANIEL CLARK Foreman to B. Noakes & Co., Tin Plate Workers Dockley Road
Bermondsey in the County of Surrey do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
The object of my invention is to improve the metal cap, lid, or plug of such boxes
or other receptacles as may already be closed without the use of solder by jamming
down the lid, and opened without the use of any cutting instrument by prising or
lifting up the said lid or cover which fits as a plug into the neck or mouth, and this
I propose to effect by an improvement in the construction of the plug which consists
in strengthening the edge or flange of the said plug in such a manner that when an
instrument is inserted under the said flange to lever the lid off or out of the mouth of
the tin or box, the edge may not yield, bend or give way, thereby causing great
difficulty in getting the cap off or out. In Fig. I A is a section of a lid such as is
now used jammed down into the neck or mouth B of the tin E, E, now, when an
instrument is inserted in the space D to prise off the lid, the flange or edge C, C, is
very liable to bend up, the tin cannot then be opened To avoid this I propose to
make my caps either as in Fig. II by throwing two or more beads round the
circumference of the flange, or by folding over the edge of the flange as in Fig. 3 or
upward as in Fig. 4, or by fluting the edge all round as in Fig. 5.
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DANIEL CLARK.

page_text: Alimentary and other Substances.
I, DANIEL CLARK Foreman to B. Noakes & Co., Tin Plate Workers Dockley Road
Bermondsey, London in the County of Surrey 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:-
The object of my invention is to improve the metal cap, lid or plug of such boxes
or other receptacles as may be already closed with the use of solder by jamming down
the lid and opened without the aid of any cutting instrument by prising or lifting up
the said lid or cover which fits as a plug into the neck or mouth and this I propose to
effect by an improvement in the construction of the plug which consists in strengthening
the edge or flange of the said plug in such a manner that when an instrument is
inserted under the said flange to lever the lid off or out of the mouth of the tin or
box, the edge may not yield, bend or give way thereby causing great difficulty in
getting the cap off or out. In the Drawings left with the provisional specification A
fig. I is a section of a lid such as is now used jammed down into the neck or mouth B
of the tin E, E, now, when an instrument is inserted in the space D, to prise off the
lid, the flange or edge C, C, is very liable to bend up, the tin cannot then be opened-
To avoid this I propose to make my caps either as in fig. 2, by throwing two or more
beads round the circumference of the flange or by folding over the edge of the flange
as in fig. 3, or upward as in fig. 4, or by fluting the circumference of the edge of
flange as in fig. 5.
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 :
A lid, cover or plug having a flange strengthened as hereinbefore described and
indicated in the various Figs. in combination with the rim or mouth of a box or other
receptacle for containing alimentary or other substances.