Improvements in Boxes or Canisters and like Receptacles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 29th July, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes or Canisters and like Receptacles.
We, GEORGE BRINTON, of No. 401 Kelker Street and JAMES BRADSHAW
BAILEY, of No. 31 South Front Street of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 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 :-
This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in boxes or
canisters & like receptacles, the peculiarities of which will be hereinafter fully
described and more particularly pointed out in the claim.
In the accompanying drawings on which like reference letters indicate corre-
sponding parts:
Fig. 1, represents a vertical sectional view through an improved vessel or can of
our construction; and
Fig. 2, an outside of the same shewing the label in position thereon.
The letter A designates the body of a vessel or can, of the ordinary or any
approved construction, and the letter B the cover for the same, the lower portion
of the cover C fitting within the body of the vessel or can, as shown in Fig. 1, the
top portion of the cover C', being preferably of the same diameter as the portion C.
Between the top and bottom of the cover is a flat bulged band D constituting a
shoulder (from the lower portion of the cover) and forming a surface flush with the
outside of the vessel or can, and constituting a continuation thereof when adjusted
in position. That is to say the flat swelled portion of the cover is of substantially,
or exactly, the same diameter as the body of the vessel or cau. One advantage of
this, among others, is that the label or wrapper for the vessel or can will have no
tendency to warp or twist out of shape when applied to the vessel or can but will
lie straight around the vessel or can without making it necessary to stretch the
wrapper in order to bring the edges together up and down, and place it properly
on the vessel or can. This is the trouble experienced with vessels or cans of the
ordinary construction having covers of larger diameter than the body of the vessel
or can, necessitating the stretching of the label in applying it properly to the
vessel or can, and requiring care and experience to properly wrap the label
thereon.
Another point is that the cover is retained in position by the attachment of the
label to the said flat swelled portion D, thus obtaining the same advantage in
securing the cover to the vessel or can as with ordinary covers, but without the
accompanying waste of time and labor in adjusting the label to the different
diameters of vessel or can and cover. It will be observed that the top edge of the
vessel or can body is not acted on to form a fillet as is sometimes done in other
forms of vessels or cans, but retains its plain straight surface. Thus any extra
labor is avoided. In the manufacture of articles of this kind every advantage of
construction is desired, since in the manufacture of the article in large numbers, an
improvement in construction, as exemplified above, results in a large saving to the
manufacturer and corresponding advantage to the purchaser from the lessened cost
at which he may obtain the same.
Again it will be observed, that the cover at the side thereof has two portions,
namely, the slidable portion fitting within the vessel or can body and the upper
portion of the side, formed of substantially the same diameter, while the flat portion
is bulged from within outward, thus constituting the before mentioned shoulder and
swelled portion.
I am aware that it is not new to form a box or receptacle in two parts, the
meeting edges of which are of the same diameter and are provided with an inside

page_text: stiffening piece forming the joint. Also that a cover having the top disc double
seamed over the top of the side, and extending out beyond said side forming a larger
diameter than the same, is old. I do not therefore claim these forms but distinctly
disclaim them. What I claim, however, is the flat bulged portion projecting from
the side of the cover, the said bulged portion constituting the larger diameter,
preferably, of the cover for said vessel or can.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
As an improved article of manufacture, the hereindescribed vessel or cans, the
same consisting of the vessel or can proper, a cover of one integral piece and having
a belt or portion bulged outwardly to extend over the upper end of the vessel or
can and be flush with the outside of the vessel or can, and the remaining
lower portion preserved in its original diameter, such diameter admitting it
snugly within the vessel or can, and a wrapping or label upon the outside of the
vessel or can extending up to and about said outwardly bulged portion and secured
to the vessel or can and such portion by some adhesive material, whereby such
vessel or can and cover are united and connected together.
Dated this 10th day of April 1893.
GEORGE BRINTON.
JAMES BRADSHAW BAILEY.