Improvements in Closed Metallic Cans or Canisters.
Year: 1891

page_text: Dite of Application, 30th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Closed Metallic Cans or Canisters.
1, DANIEL CLARK, of 17 Collett Road, Bermondsey, London, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide means for fixing within the interior of
ordinary closed metallic cans or canisters a ledge or shelf upon which when the
can has been opened a spoon or other instrument used for removing the contents
may be rested.
Metallic cans are ordinarily formed with cylindrical sides and with a ring of
dished sheet metal secured in various ways around its outer edge to the top of the
cylinder this ring forms a support for the cover with which the can is to be
closed.
To provide a can of this description with an inwardly projecting ledge or shelf a
short distance below the top of the can I make the ledge from a strip of sheet metal
bent at right angles. One end of this strip is bent to fit against the interior of the
cylindrical case, and at its extremity is formed with a flange to rest on the cans top
edge, the other end of the strip which projects inwards into the case at right angles
to the side is dished or hollowed so that a spoon resting on it may be the less liable
to slip off.
When the ledge has been put in place the rim of the can is put on and its edge
secured to the top of the case in any ordinary way. In this way the strip of metal
gets held between the top edge of the can and the ring without any soldering in
the interior of the can being required.
It may also be secured by being nipped in the same manner between the bottom
edge of the body and bottom of the can or between the joint of the seam of the
cylindrical body of the can.
Dated this 30th day of January 1801
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Closed Metallic Cans or Canisters.
I, DANIEL CLARK of 17 Collett Road, Bermondsey, London, Engineer, 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 object of this invention is to provide means for fixing within the interior of
ordinary closed metallic cans or canisters a ledge or shelf upon which when the
can has been opened a spoon or other instrument used for removing the contents
may be rested."
Metallic cans are ordinarily formed with cylindrical sides and with a ring of
dished sheet metal secured in various ways around its outer edge to the top of the
cylinder this ring forms a support for the cover with which the can is to be
closed.
To provide a can of this description with an inwardly projecting ledge or shelf a
short distance below the top of the can I make the ledge from a strip of sheet
metal bent at right angles. One end of this strip is bent to fit against the interior
of the cylindrical case, and at its extremity is formed with a flange to rest on the
can's top edge, the other end of the strip which projects inwards into the case at
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page_text: right angles to the side is dished or hollowed so that a spoon resting on it may be
the less liable to slip off.
When the ledge has been put in place the rim of the can is put on and its edge
secured to the top of the case in any ordinary way. In this way the strip of metal
gets held between the top edge of the can and the ring without any soldering in the
interior of the can being required.
It may also be secured by being nipped in the same manner between the bottom
edge of the body and bottom of the can or between the joint of the seam of the
cylindrical body of the can.
In the drawings annexed
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a metallic can formed with an internal shelf fixed
within it in the manner above described.
Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.
Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 shew the four parts from which the can is made.
The lid of the can is formed in the ordinary way and is not shewn in the drawings.
A is the cylinder-B its bottom and C the dished ring of sheet metal secured to
the top of the cylinder. D is the bent strip of metal of which a part forms the
internal ledge or shelf. In the construction shewn by the drawing its bent upper
edge hooks over the top of the cylinder and is nipped between it and the ring C
when the ring C is put on. The putting on of the ring is effected in the ordinary
well known way.
In place of the strip of metal D being held at one end between the top of the
cylinder and the ring C it might as before stated be similarly held between the lower
end of the cylinder and the bottom although not so conveniently or in cases where
the longitudinal seam in the cylindrical body is made by the two edges which are
to be joined being made to lap one around the other one edge of the strip D might
be held between them in the same way.
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
A closed metallic can or canister having within it a strip of metal held along one of
its edges in the junction between the cylindrical body and one or other of the ends
or in the longitudinal seam of the cylindrical body and bent.so as to form a shelf or
spoon rest substantially as described.