Improvements in Metallic Boxes or Cases for Storing Articles of Food, Tobacco, Snuff, and Paint, and for other like purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th July, 1895-Accepted, 17th Aug.. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Boxes or Cases for Storing Articles
of Food, Tobacco, Snuff, and Paint, and for other like
purposes.
I, GEORGE HENRY WILLIAMSON, trading as Williamson and Sons, of
Providence Works, in the City of Worcester Manufacturer do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of improvements on an invention for which Letters Patent
were granted to me dated 1st August 1885 No. 9251 and on subsequent improve-
ments of the same for which Letters Patent were granted to me in conjunction
with William Blizard Williamson dated and numbered respectively 7th September
1886, No. 11,378 and 17th December 1886 No. 16,614.
In order that my present invention may be readily understood I remark that the
patented inventions herein before referred to consist in making metallic boxes or
cases having their tops hermetically sealed by tagger tin plate, sheet lead or strong
tin foil and provided with loose fitting covers which covers are used to protect the
contents of the box or case after the tagger tin plate or other top has been
removed, and in means for removing the tagger tin plate or other top.
The objects of the present invention are to provide a better grip on the box for
the person opening the same and also to facilitate the attaching of labels to the box
after the lid has been placed upon the box the cylindrical part of the cover being
of the same diameter as the lower part of the box.
In making a box or case according to my present invention I raise from a
circular blank of tin plate or sheet metal by a pressing or drawing through process
a cylindrical box the body of the said box being perpendicular to the base. By
operating on the said plain cylindrical box I form a rim or extended base at the
bottom of the box and make the contraction at the top for the tagger or other top
to seat itself on. I also prefer to make the side of the said box slightly taper or
conical, that is, I make the box of a slightly less diameter at top than at or near
the bottom.
By providing the bottom of the body of the box with a rim or extended base a
firm hold on the body of the box is obtained and by making the body of the said
box slightly conical the edge only of the said removable cover comes in contact
with the body of the box and there is consequently less resistance to the turning
of the said removable cover on the box on the cutting and removal of the tagger
or other top.
Although I prefer to make the body of the box slightly conical I do not limit
myself thereto as the said body may be made straight.
Dated this Ninth day of November 1894.

page_text: Improvements in Metallic Boxes or Cases for Storing Articles
of Food, Tobacco, Snuff, and Paint, and for other like
purposes.
I, GEORGE HENRY WILLIAMSON, trading as Williamson and Sons, of
Providence Works, in the City of Worcester, Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention consists of improvements on an invention for which Letters Patent
were granted to me dated 1st August 1885 No. 9251 and on subsequent improve-
ments of the same for which Letters Patent were granted to me in conjunction
with William Blizard Williamson dated and numbered respectively 7th September
1886, No. 11,378 and 17th December 1886 No. 16,614.
In order that my present invention may be readily understood I remark that the
patented inventions hereinbefore referred to consist in making metallic boxes or
cases having their tops hermetically sealed by tagger tin plate, sheet lead or strong
tin foil and provided with loose fitting covers which covers are used to protect the
contents of the box or case after the tagger tin plate or other top has been
removed, and in means for removing the tagger tin plate or other top.
The objects of the present invention are to provide a better grip on the box for
the person opening the same and also to facilitate the attaching of labels to the box
after the lid has been placed upon the box, the cylindrical part of the cover being
of the same diameter as the lower part of the box.
In making a box or case according to my present invention I raise from a
circular blank of tin plate or sheet metal by a pressing or drawing through process
a cylindrical box the body of the said box being perpendicular to the base. By
operating on the said plain cylindrical box I form a rim or extended base at the
bottom of the box and make the contraction at the top for the tagger or other top
to seat itself on. I also prefer to make the side of the said box slightly taper or
conical, that is, I make the box of a slightly less diameter at top than at or near
the bottom.
By providing the bottom of the body of the box with a rim or extended base, a
firm hold on the body of the box is obtained and by making the body of the said
box slightly conical the edge only of the said removable cover comes in contact
with the body of the box and there is consequently less resistance to the turning of
the said removable cover on the box on the cutting and removal of the tagger or
other top.
Although I prefer to make the body of the box slightly conical I do not limit
myself thereto as the said body may be made straight.
Figure of the accompanying drawing represents in side elevation and Figure 2
in plan a hermetically sealed metallic box provided with a loose cover, the said box
containing my improvements; Figure 3 is a vertical section of the same and
Figure 4 is a vertical section of the body part of the box, that is, the box without
the loose cover or lid and tagger tin plate top; Figure 5 is a portion of Figure 4
drawn to a larger scale; Figure 6 is a plan of the body part of the box.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawing.
In making the hermetically sealed box Figures 1 and 2, I raise from a circular
disc or blank of tin plate or sheet metal by a pressing or drawing through process
a cylindrical dish a the side or body of which is perpendicular to the base. The
said dish a constitutes the body of the box. By a spinning process on the plain

page_text: cylindrical body of the box I form a rim or extended base a² at the bottom of the
said box and make the contraction or neck a³ at the top for the tagger tin plate or
other top 6 to seat itself on. The part between the rim a² and neck a³ I make
slightly taper or conical as represented (see the enlarged view Figure 5 where the
dotted line c c represents a perpendicular to the base). The tapering upwards of
the body of the box is effected by the spinning process by which the neck a³ is
contracted and the rim a² formed: d is the loose cover for the closing of the box
when the tagger tin plate or other top has been removed.
By providing the box with a rim or extended base a² the hand has a better grip
or hold on the box when the lid is turned for cutting out the tagger tin plate top b,
as well as when removing the said lid d than in ordinary boxes or cases.
And by
making the body of the box taper or conical less resistance is offered to the turning
of the loose cover d as the edge only of the said cover comes in contact with the
side of the box. Further, by making the body of the box conical the bottom of
the said body, that is, where it passes into the rim a², may be made of the same
diameter as the external diameter of the loose cover d so that a label attached to
the said box and loose cover seats itself on the said box and loose cover better than
when the said box is cylindrical as the loose cover in the latter case is of a greater
diameter than the body of the box.
Although I have described and represented and prefer to make the part of the
body of the box between the rim a² and neck a³ slightly conical yet I do not limit
myself thereto as the said part may be left cylindrical.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my inven-
tion of "Improvements in metallic boxes or cases for storing articles of food, tobacco,
snuff and paint and for other like purposes
"3
First. Forming at the bottom of the bodies of cylindrical or slightly conical
metallic boxes made by a pressing or drawing through operation from circular discs
or blanks of sheet metal, a rim or extended base so as to provide a better hold or
grip on the box substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Secondly. Forming the sides or bodies of metallic boxes made by a pressing
or drawing through process from circular dises or blanks of sheet metal of a
slightly taper or conical figure substantially as and for the purpose herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 9th day of July 1895.
GEORGE HENRY WILLIAMSON.