Improvements in or connected with Metal Boxes, Cases, or Cans for Containing and Preserving Meat, Fish, and other Articles of Food.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 4th June, 1897-Accepted, 17th July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Metal Boxes, Cases, or Cans for
Containing and Preserving Meat, Fish, and other Articles of
Food.
I, HENRY THOMPSON, of No. 43, Tufnell Park Road, Holloway, in the County of
Middlesex Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or connected with metal boxes, cases or
cans for containing and preserving meat, fish and other articles of food.
According to the present invention, the case or box is formed of three pieces of
sheet metal, such as tinned iron, that is to say, one piece constituting the top of the
box or case, another piece the bottom of the same, and a long strip or band to form
the body.
In making the box or case, the said strip of metal is bent into the form it is
desired to give to the box, the ends thereof are then soldered together in such a
manner that one end will project free beyond the soldered joint on the outside. To
complete the box or case, the plates to forin the top and bottom thereof are soldered
to the respective edges of the said bent strip.
To open a box or case constructed as above described, a key is employed to engage
the projecting free end of the body of the box or case which is then stripped off, in
the ordinary manner, from the top and bottom.
Dated this 5th day of September 1896.
VAUGHAN & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Metal Boxes, Cases, or Cans for
Containing and Preserving Meat, Fish, and other Articles of
Food.
I, HENRY THOMPSON, of No. 43, Tufnell Park Road, Holloway, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, 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 :-.
My said invention relates to improvements in or connected with metal boxes, cases
or cans for containing and preserving meat, fish and other articles of food.

page_text: Figure 1. is an elevation of a metal box, case or can constructed according to the
present invention and showing the opening key attached thereto.
Figure 2. is a plan thereof.
Figure 3. is vertical section taken on the line 1-1 of Figure 4, but showing the
cover detached.
Figure 4. is a plan thereof, but showing the cover entirely removed, and,
Figure 5. represents a portion of Figure 1, but with the opening key removed.
In the several figures like parts are indicated by similar letters of reference.
A box or case, according to the present invention, is formed of three pieces of
sheet metal, such for example as tinned iron, that is to say, one piece al constitutes
the top of the box or case, another piece a² the bottom of the same, and a long strip
or band a. forms the body thereof.
In constructing the box or case, the metal strip a. is bent into the form it is
desired to give to the box or case, and the ends of the strip are then soldered
together in such manner and as indicated more particularly at Figure 4. that one
end a will, beyond the soldered joint a³, project free on the outside of the box or
case so as to form a tag.
The plate a² to form the bottom of the box or case is then soldered to the edges
of the strip or body a. as shown more particularly at Figure 3. and after the
introduction of the food material to be preserved the plate a¹ forming the top of the
box or case is placed in position and similarly soldered to the body or strip a.
In order to open a box or case constructed in the manner above described, a key
such as b. of well known construction is employed to engage the projecting free end
or tag a* of the body a. of the box or case, and by rotating the key b. in the ordinary
manner the part a. may then be stripped off from the top and bottom a¹ a² thereby
completely discharging the contents of the box or case.
It will be obvious that although the box or case is represented in the drawings
to be of circular form it may be of rectangular or any other suitable shape.
By the means herein before described, the joints to be made tight are very few,
and the construction of the box or case is thus cheapened, whilst the opening
thereof and the discharge of the contents is facilitated.
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 metal box or case for preserving food, comprising a body formed of a single
strip of metal bent into the shape required to be given to the body of the box, and
at its ends united by solder in such manner as to leave an exteriorly projecting end-

page_text: or tag and top and bottom plates soldered to the body, substantially as herein
shown and described.
thin 1th dow of Tune 1967
VAUGHAN & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.