Improvements in Metal Cans or Vessels for Containing Paint and other uses.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metal Cans or Vessels for Containing Paint and
other uses.
I, THOMAS SYDNEY MARRIAGE of the firm of T. S. Marriage & Company of
Bell Street, Reigate in the County of Surrey, Ironmonger do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvements have for their object the production of a tin, can, or vessel
adapted to contain paint, treacle or other matters and having a removeable top
or removeable top and bottom cheap in manufacture and convenient in use and
so constructed that the reinoveable end or ends may be readily taken off by
ordinary accessible appliances such as a penny piece and replaced in its seat by
simply pressing it home thereto.
The one end which I will call the top of a cylindrical body of the vessel
I close by inserting an annular piece which forms the socket or seating for the
removable top, and this annulus is preferably soldered to the cylinder.
This annulus is, when in place in the cylinder and the latter vertical, so shaped
that the part within the cylinder has vertical sides splayed outwards so as to
rest on the top of the cylinder and to form a concave rim or gutter around it.
Within this ring having vertical sides are pressed the correspondingly shaped
sides of a disc forming the cover and the vertical sides of the cover are splayed
outwards convexly so that the outer lips of the seat and the outer lips of the
lid meet truely and form apparently a bead or rolled edge except at a part where
a recess is left conveniently for insertion of an opening instrument between the
meeting lips.
The other end or bottom of the cylinder, say in a can for a ham or other food,
may be closed by a similar arrangement of parts or the cover may be a piece
having a disc, a wall around at right angles and a splayed concave concentric
projecting edge the cylinder encompassing the wall and resting against the convex
side of the projecting edge to which it may be soldered or the edge may be
curled round to and enclose the end of the cylinder and be soldered thereto.
Dated the 18th day of March 1891.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metal Cans or Vessels for Containing Paint and
other uses.
THOMAS SYDNEY MARRIAGE of the firm of T. S. Marriage and Company of
Bell Street, Reigate, in the County of Surrey, Ironmonger, 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 improvements have for their object the production of a "tin," can, or vessel
adapted to contain paint, treacle or other matters, and having a removable top, or
removable top and bottom, cheap in manufacture and convenient in use, and so con-
structed that the removable end, or ends, may be readily taken off by ordinary
accessible appliances, such as a penny piece, and replaced in its seat by simply
pressing it home thereto, whilst the can or vessel with the top removed presents a
substantially clear way full bore opening.
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page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shews to an enlarged scale a portion of a "tin" and its lid separated
slightly, but ready to be pressed together, when the lid will be tightly fixed.
Fig. 2 shews to a smaller scale an entire "tin" but without cover the left hand
half of the figure indicating an exterior view, and the right hand half of the figure a
vertical section.
Fig. 3 indicates one form of a lid or cover, the left hand half being shewn
as an external view, and the right half as a section. In this form of lid or cover,
the rim c¹ is doubled for strength.
Fig. 4 shews a corresponding view to Fig. 3, but in this case the rim is not
doubled, but is of single thickness.
Fig. 5 indicates an alternative form of construction for the bottom of the tin.
In this case the bottom is formed like the top in Fig. 2, and Fig. 3 combined.
Fig. 6 indicates an alternative method of constructing the top, or top and bottom,
or bottom of the tin.
Fig. 7 is an upper side view and Fig. 8 an underside view of the tin shewn by
Fig. 2.
Fig. 9 shews an upperside view of a top, or underside view of a bottom, in which
a nick is formed, or a piece is notched out of the edge of the cover.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2-a is the cylinder or body of the tin. a¹ is the top
flange. the bottom flange, where such is used. Within the upper end of this
cylinder is inserted the fitting ring or annulus b, which consists of an annulus
flanged and at turned around the flange a¹. In Fig. 2 the bottom is corre-
spondingly formed, except that a diaphragm a' closes that end of the cylinder. c in
Figure 1 is a cover adapted to tightly fit within the annulus b; and the flanged
rim c¹ of this cover may be either double, as in Fig. 3, or single as in Fig. 4. cis
the diaphragm which closes the end of the tin. In Fig. 5 d is the annulus, of
which d' is the flanged rim. e is the removable cover of which e' is the flanged
rim. is the diaphragm closing the bottom of the tin. In Fig. 6 the cylinder a
is formed without a flange, the annulus being provided with a flange fl which is
either fixed in by pressure, or also soldered to the cylinder a, and into this annulus
is pressed the lid of which g' is the flange and the diaphragm. The nick or
notch shewn in Fig. 9 is particularly useful when useing the construction
indicated by Fig. 6 to facilitate introduction of the opening implement. In the
arrangement shewn by Figs. 1 to 5 the taper of the side of a cover c and of its
socket the annulus -which exactly corresponds is greatest at the entering
point (1) and smallest (nearly parallel) at the point (2). In the one end which I
will call the "mouth' of a cylindrical body of the vessel, I insert an annular
piece which forms the socket or seating for the removeable "top" c and this
annulus is preferably "wrung-on" to the cylinder. This annulus b is, when in
place in the cylinder and the latter vertical, so shaped that the part within the
cylinder has nearly vertical but slightly conical sides splayed outwards or from
centre towards the mouth of the can and with a flange adapted to rest on the top
of the cylinder, and to form a rim around it. Within the slightly coned or inclined
sides of this ring are pressed the correspondingly shaped sides of the cover.
In order to ensure a practically air tight fit between the covers and the sockets
of the vessel I make the parts such as the sides of the cover, the annulus in which
it fits, the bottom and the annulus in which that fits (when so constructed) from
one and the same die and thereby I can dispense wholly or mainly with the use
of solder.
In the arrangement shewn by Fig. 6 the one end which I will call the "top" of
a cylindrical body of the vessel, I close by inserting an annular piece, which forms
the socket or seating for the removeable "top," and this annulus is preferably
soldered to the cylinder. This annulus is, when in place in the cylinder, and the
latter vertical, so shaped that the part within the cylinder has vertical sides
splayed outwards so as to rest on the top of the cylinder, and to form a concave rim

page_text: or gutter around it. Within this ring having vertical sides are pressed the corre-
spondingly shaped sides of a disc forming the cover, and the vertical sides of the
cover are splayed outwards convexly so that the outer lips of the seat and the
other outer lips of the lid meet truly and form apparently a bead or rolled edge,
except at a part where a recess is left conveniently for insertion of an opening
instrument between the meeting lips. The other end or bottom of the cylinder,
say in a can for a tongue, or other food, may be closed by a similar arrangement
of parts.
Whilst the "top" is out of the "body" for access to the contents or for cleansing
or filling, the top may be preserved from loss, and space may be economised by
fixing it by pressure temporarily within the bottom recess in which it will
accurately fit.
Although in the drawings I shew only a vessel of cylindrical form, I may make
vessels of oval, and other shapes in cross section.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In a "tin," can, or vessel adapted to contain paint, treacle or other matters,
the combination or arrangement of parts of body and removeable cover, or body
and removeable cover and bottom, substantially as described and shewn with
reference to Figs. 1. 2. 3. 4 and 5.
2. In a "tin," can, or vessel adapted to contain paint, treacle or other matters,
the combination or arrangement of parts of body and removeable cover, or body and
removeable cover and bottom, substantially as described and shewn with reference
to Fig. 6.
3. The combination or arrangement and use of parts of "tins," cans or vessels
substantially as hereinbefore described and shewa.
Dated the 17th day of December 1891.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.