Improvements in Means for Closing Provision Tins, Bottles, Jars, or like Receptacles.
Year: 1899

page_text: NATION.
Improvements in Means for Closing Provision Tins, Bottles, Jars,
or like Receptacles.
We, ARCHIBALD WHITE MACONOCHIE, of the Firm of Maconochie Brothers,
of 131, Leadenhall Street, in the City of London, Merchants, and WILLIAM MACKIE,
of 131, Leadenhall Street, aforesaid, Manager to Maconochie Brothers, afore-
said, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide means for closing provision tins,
bottles, jars, or like receptacles, in a manner which is very economical and effi-
cient, the tight closing being effected without the necessity for the use of solder
and without the necessity for skilled labour. The neck, rim, or edge of the tin,
bottle, jar, or the like is provided with a flange, or bead, and the lid, or cover,
is provided with a turned down part and between the inside of the lid, or cover,
and the top surface of the flange or bead around the neck, rim or edge of the
tin, bottle, jar, or other receptacle is placed an elastic, or pliable, material such
for example as a rubber ring. The lid, or cover, is forced down upon the neck,
rim, or edge, of the tin, bottle, jar, or other receptacle so as to compress the
elastic, or plastic, material between the two surfaces and the turned-down part
of the lid or cover is turned in tightly under the edge of the flange, or bead,
around the edge of the tin, bottle or the like and then by the compression of
the elastic or pliable material the closure is effected in a very ready, efficient
and air-tight manner without the use of solder. The lid, or cover, or the upper
surface of the bead, or flange, around the mouth of the tin, bottle, jar, or other
receptacle or both may be recessed to hold the flexible or pliable material in
position.
Dated this 29th day of April 1899
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Closing Provision Tins, Bottles, Jars,
or like Receptacles.
We, ARCHIBALD WHITE MACONOCHIE, of the Firm of Maconochie Brothers,
of 131, Leadenhall Street, in the City of London, Merchants, and WILLIAM MACKIE,
of 131, Leadenhall Street, aforesaid, Manager to Maconochie Brothers, afore-
said, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
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page_text: 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 closing provision tins,
bottles, jars, or like receptacles, in a manner which is very economical and effi-
cient, the tight closing being effected without the necessity for the use of solder
and without the necessity for skilled labour. We will describe our invention
with reference to the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 shewing in sec-
tion, the invention applied to a tin for containing food or other matter, Figure 1
shewing the lid put in place before being secured, and Figure 2 shewing it after
being secured. Figures 3 and 4 shew, in section, corresponding views as applied
to a bottle, or jar.
The neck, rim, or edge, of the tin, bottle, jar, or the like, (a) is provided
with a flange, or bead, 2, recessed as shewn, and the lid, or cover, b, is provided
with a flange, and turned-down part, 3, and in the recess in the top of the
flange, or bead, around the neck, rim, or edge, of the tin bottle, jar, or other
receptacle, is placed an elastic, or pliable, material, c. The lid, or cover, is put
in place, and forced down upon the neck, rim, or edge, of the tin, bottle, jar, or
other receptacle, so as to compress the elastic, or pliable, material, between it
and the neck, rim, or edge, which is thereby spread out in the recess in the
flange, and on both sides of it, and the turned-down part of the lid, or cover,
is turned in tightly under the edge of the flange, or bead, ², around the edge
of the tin, bottle, jar, or the like, and so the closure is effected in a very ready.
efficient, and airtight manner without the use of solder. Instead of the recess
for the elastic, or pliable, material, being in the upper surface of the bead or
flange, around the mouth of the tin, bottle, jar, or the like, it may be made in
the corresponding part, of the lid, or cover, or similar recesses may be made in
both the lid, or cover, and the bead, or flange, around the mouth of the tin,
bottle, jar, or the like. The lid, or cover, is shewn as having a recessed mid-
part with an inclined or wedge-shaped periphery at 6, which wedges firmly
into the open end, or mouth, of the tin, bottle, jar, or the like. If desired a
cork can be first inserted, as shewn at in Figures 3 and 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
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The combination of parts formed and arranged as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings, constituting means for closing pro-
vision tins, bottles, jars, or other like receptacles.
Dated this 20th day of January 1900
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX.
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.