Improvements in Bottles or Jars for Preserving Fruit, Fish, and other Edibles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles or Jars for Preserving Fruit, Fish, and
other Edibles.
We, HARRIS ANSON, and ANDREW ANSON, both of 13 and 15, St. James'
Market, Bradford, in the County of York, and also of Hambleton, near Selby in
said county, Preservers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in bottles and jars for hermetically
preserving fish, fruit, and other edibles which require to be kept from contact with
the air, and its object is to provide a bottle with a simple airtight cover not liable
to be accidentally knocked off but readily removable when required.
For this purpose we form a raised. rim around the neck of the bottle the internal
periphery of which is inclined at a suitable angle. Below the inclined portion of
the rim we provide a flat annular seat for the cover or stopper the periphery of
the upper flange of which cover is inclined at approximately the same angle as the
interior of said rim. An india rubber washer or its equivalent is placed between
the cover or stopper and said annular seat to form the air-tight joint and the
central portion of the cover may be surrounded by a cork to prevent the contents
of the bottle coming in contact with the india-rubber.
By this construction the cover when in position is practically enclosed by said
rim but the inclination of the interior of the rim enables a knife or similar lever to
be introduced at a convenient angle between it and the flange of the cover to open
the latter.
Dated this 28th day of October 1893.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles or Jars for Preserving Fruit, Fish, and
other Edibles.
We, HARRIS ANSON, and ANDREW ANSON, both of 13, and 15, St. James'
Market Bradford, in the County of York, and also of Hambleton, near Selby, in
said county, 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 improvements in bottles or jars for preserving fish,
fruit, and other edibles which require to be kept from contact with the air, and
its object is to provide a bottle with a simple airtight cover not liable to be
accidentally knocked off but readily removed when required.
For this purpose we form a raised rim around the neck of the bottle the
internal periphery of which is inclined at a suitable angle. Below the inclined
portion of the rim we provide a flat annular seat for the cover or stopper the
periphery of the upper flange of which cover is inclined at approximately the same
angle as the interior of said rim. An india rubber washer or its equivalent is
placed between the cover or stopper and said annular seat to form the air-tight
joint and the central portion of the cover may be surrounded by a cork to prevent
the contents of the bottle coming in contact with the india rubber.

page_text: By this construction the cover when in position is practically enclosed by said
rim but the inclination of the interior of the rim enables a knife or similar lever to
be introduced at a convenient angle between it and the flange of the cover to open
the latter.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of
this Specification in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a diametrical section of the upper part of a bottle and cover
made in accordance with our invention.
Figure 2, represents a plan or top view of the bottle.
Figure 3, represents a side view of the corer alone.
A raised rim A is formed around the neck B of the bottle C and the interior of
this rim is preferably inclined towards the annular seat D. The cover F is formed
with a shoulder G and an india rubber washer E is placed round the cover against
this shoulder and forms an air-tight joint between the seat D and the shoulder.
Above this shoulder the cover is made conical so as to overhang and is of such a
diameter that an annular space J is left between it and the rim A. To open the
bottle it is simply necessary to introduce the point of a knife into the annular
space J, as shown by the broken lines H Figure 1, and use it as a lever (with the
rim A for its fulcrum) to raise the cover.
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A cork band K may be fixed round the lower part of the stopper to fit the
neck and prevent the contents of the bottle from coming in contact with the india
rubber washer.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :
A bottle or jar having a raised rim above the cover or stopper seat and a cover
or stopper having an india rubber washer to bear upon said seat and also a conical
or overhanging portion above said washer surrounded by said raised rim,
-substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 19th day of June 1894.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.