Improvements in Milk and other Cans.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 17th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Milk and other Cans.
We, GEORGE ARTHUR DOWSE, and JOHN STRUTHERS, both of 255 Penton-
ville Road, in the County of Middlesex, Dairy Utensil Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates more especially to improvements in the metal cans which
are commonly employed by dairymen for the delivery of milk to the consumers,
but such improvements are also applicable to similar cans employed for other
purposes.
The improvements relate to the construction of the hinged or other lids of such
We form the rim
cans, and to the hook devices provided for hanging the cans.
or outer edge of the lid of a metallic casting (malleable cast iron, or gunmetal for
example), the central portion of which is filled in with a disc of tinned iron or
other suitable metal, stamped or otherwise formed to the desired shape, and
attached to the said rim by soldering or otherwise. In cases where the lid is hinged,
the aforesaid rim or outer edge has one portion of the hinge cast thereon, the
other portion of the hinge being formed on or attached to the can in any suitable
or well known manner, but preferably as hereinafter described. We also form
the hook or hanging device at the back of the can of a similar casting, which is
soldered or otherwise suitably attached to the can, and we prefer to cast to the
upper portion of the last named casting the fixed portion of the hinge for the lid,
whereby the said lid with its cast rim may be attached to the can in a secure,
substantial and simple manner.
If preferred, instead of forming the lid with a sheet metal central portion, such
central portion may be of cast metal, and the lid thus cast or formed in one
piece.
Dated this 17th day of January 1894.
G. A. DOWSE,
J. STRUTHERS,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Milk and other Cans.
We, GEORGE ARTHUR DOWSE at present of 27 Caledonian Road in the
County of Middlesex, and JOHN STRUTHERS at present of 15 Tamworth Road
West Croydon in the County of Surrey Dairy Utensil Manufacturers, 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 :-
This invention relates more especially to improvements in the metal cans which
are commonly employed by dairymen for the delivery of milk to the consumers,
but such improvements are also applicable to similar cans employed for other
purposes. These improvements relate to the construction of the hinged or other
lids of such cans, and to the hook devices provided for hanging the cans.
And in order that the said invention may be fully understood we will now

page_text: proceed to describe the same with the aid of the accompanying sheet of drawings
in which
Figure 1 is a back elevation, and Figure 2 a transverse section taken on line XX
of Figure 1, of a milk can with our improved lid and hook applied thereto.
Figure 3 is a back elevation of part of a milk can showing a somewhat different
method of hinging the lid and forming the hook and
Figure 4 is a section of a modified construction of the lid.
We form the rim or outer edge A of the lid (see Figures 1 and 2) of a metallic
casting (malleable cast iron or gunmetal for example) the central portion of which
is filled in with a disc B of tinned iron or other suitable metal, stamped or other-
wise formed to the desired shape, and attached to the said rim A by soldering or
otherwise. In cases where the lid is hinged to the body of the can C the aforesaid
rim or outer edge A has one portion D of the hinge cast therewith, the other
portion D' of the hinge being formed on or attached to the can C in any suitable
or well known manner, but preferably as hereinafter described. We also form
the hook or hanging device E at the back of the can of cast metal such as
malleable cast iron or gunmetal for example which may be soldered, riveted or
otherwise suitably attached to the can, and we prefer to cast the fixed portions D¹
of the hinge for the lid with the said casting forming the said book E whereby the
said lid with its cast rim A, may be attached to the can in a secure, substantial and
simple manner.
Instead of forming the hook or hanging device and the fixed part of the hinge
of a casting they may be formed of a piece of bent wire F (as shown in Figure 3)
soldered at F1 to the back of the can A.
If preferred instead of forming the lid with a sheet metal central portion, as
shown in Figure 2, such central portion may be cast in one with the rim A as
shown in the section Figure 4 the entire lid being thus cast or formed in one
piece.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. Constructing the lid of a milk or other can with a cast metal rim or outer
edge and with the central portion of tinned iron or other suitable metal, stamped
or otherwise formed, to the desired shape and soldered or otherwise secured to the
said cast metal rim or outer edge substantially as described.
Second. Constructing the book or hanging device of a milk or other can and the
fixed part of the hinge thereof of cast metal, substantially as described.
Third. Constructing the lid of a milk or other can wholly of cast metal
substantially as described.
Dated this Seventeenth day of October 1904.
G. A. DOWSE,
J. STRUTHERS,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.