Improvements in Sealed Cans or Storage Packages.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1899-Accepted, 26th Aug., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sealed Cans or Storage Packages.
I, MOSES FALK, residing at 33, Warren Street, in the City, County, 'and State
of New York, United States of America, Tobacconist, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to storage packages, comprising a receptacle, having a
sealed top, and a removable cover provided with a cutting tool, adapted by the
movement of the cover, to cut open the sealed top. Such storage packages, or
receptacles, have been made in the shape of a round can and a round cover,
which, by a circular movement and at the same time pressure upon the cutting
tool, causes the sealed top of the can to be cut open. This invention consists of
an improved construction in this line of device constructed and arranged as here-
inafter set forth in claims.
Referring to the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a sealed can or receptacle and its cover with
cutting tool, the cover being detached, all constructed as hereinafter more par-
ticularly set forth; Fig. 2, is a plan view of the sealed can constructed in
accordance with this invention showing the cover partly removed; Fig. 3, is a
detailed view, in vertical section, showing the connection of the cover with the
can and the rolation of the cutting tool to the sealed cover; l'ig. 4 is a detailed
view in vertical section, showing a modification of the connection of the cover
with the can and illustrating the method of severing the sealed cover; Fig. 5, is
a perspective view of a modification of the sealed can, illustrating the method of
severing the sealed top.
the can.
This invention has particular reference to angular sealed cans, as for example,
the rectangular can seen in Fig. 1 of drawing, made of tin, or other similar
material; 2 indicates the sealed top of the can. This can is provided with a
sliding cover 3. The cover 3 and the top of the can are constructed in any suit-
able manner, so that the cover may have a sliding engagement with the top of
For example: the cover 3 is provided on two opposite sides with a
depending flange 4, having at its boitom an inturned edge 5, and the can 1
adjacent to its top is formed with a suitable bead 6, with which the inturned
edge 5, of the flange 4, is adapted to have a sliding engagement. The ends of
the cover 3 are without any flange, thereby permitting the cover 3 to be slid on
aud off of the top of tlie can 1 in either direction. The ends of the cover 3 may
be provided with flexible lips 7, or other suitable projection adapted to be bent
down, and thereby prevent the cover 3 from being suddenly moved from the top
of the can.
When it is desired to move the cover the lips 7 may be bent up. The
one Bide thereof with
cover 3 is provided at
suitable tool for cutting the sealed cover 2. As here shown the cutting tool 8 may
consist of a strip of steel having its rear portion 8 duly secured to the sealed
cover 2 by being passed through, or interwoven with strips 9 of the sealed
cover 2, the rear end 91 of the cutting tool extending under the sealed cover 2.
The forward part 10 of the cutting tool is elevated at an angle to the top of the
box, and the cutting portion 11, thereof, consists of a downwardly projecting
V-shaped part, having a cutting edge adapted to cut the sealed cover 2. In the
normal position of the cutting tool the V-shaped projection 11 extends through
the opening of the perforations 12, in the top of the cover 3, and rests upon or is
one
at
end and
12

page_text: in close proximity to the sealed cover 2. When it is desired to sever the sealed
cover 2, the cutting tool 8 is pressed down by the finger, as shown in Fig. 4, to
puncture the sealed cover 2, and in that position the cover 3 is drawn along the
top of the can, the V-shaped projection 11, cutting a slit in one side of the sealed
cover 2. The cover 3 is then drawn off of the top of the can 1 and placed cross-
wise thereto, in order that the top of the can may have a sliding engagement
with the top of the can 1. in a transverse position to the first position just de-
scribed. Beads 6 are provided on the ends of the can 1, similarly to the beads 6
on the sides, and the operation of severing another side of the sealed cover 2, is
represented by drawing the cover 3 transversely across the top of the sealed can 1.
In this way the cover 3 being drawn across the top of the box from end to end
and transversely, the cutting tool is caused to cut the sides of the sealed cover 2.
It may be stated that the flanges.4 of the cover 3. in engagement with the beads 'G
serve to guide the cutting tool straight across the scaled cover 2. Whilst one
particular form of engagement of the cover 3 with the sides of the can 1 is shown
in Figs. 1, 3, and 5, it is obvious that the can 1 may be provided with a groove 13,
and the flange 4 of the cover with the bead' 14. The construction so far set forth
has shown the invention as applied to a square can. The invention may, how-
ever, be applied to oblong rectangular cans as shown in Fig. 5, in which an oblong
rectangular can 15 is provided with an oblong cover 16 having lateral flanges 17
with inwardly turned flange 18 at the lower edge adapted to have a sliding
engagement with the beads 19 at the top of the can 15. In this construction
the cover 16.being narrower than the length of the can 15, both flanges 17 can-
not engage the opposite beads 19, but the cutting, however, may be affected as
illustrated in Fig. 5 by engaging a head 19 on one side of the can 15, the
opposite side of the cover being, slightly elevated and in the movement of the
cover sliding over the side edges of the top of the can. It will be observed that
the covers 3 and 16 are provided with raised edges 20, which overlic raised edges 21
of the top of the can, thereby protecting the cutting tool from being suddenly
pressed down against the sealed cover by another can placed on top of the can.
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. A storage package, consisting of a rectangular receptacle having a sealed
top, and means adjacent to the top of said receptacle on every side thereof for
the sliding engagement of a removable cover, in combination with a slidable
removable cover, adapted to having a sliding engagement with the top of the
can in every direction transversely thereto and over the top thereof, said cover
being provided with a cutting tool adapted to engage with and cut the sealed cover
by the movement of the sliding cover across the top of the receptacle.
2. A storage package, consisting of a sealed receptacle, in combination with a
removable sliding cover, having a cutting tool adapted to be pressed into engage-
ment with and cut the top of the sealed receptacle by the movement of the sliding
cover across the top of the receptacle, the cover being constructed to have a
sliding engagement with the top of the receptacle on every side of the latter,
whereby the cover may be slid transversely across the top of the receptacle in
every direction and the receptacle cut open.
Dated this 4th day of July 1899.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT
Chartered Patent Agents, 321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.