Jars, Pots, and for similar Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1887
Complete Left, 21st Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 13th Apr., 1888
Jars, Pots, and for similar Purposes.
FRANCIS ARTHUR DARTON & FREDERIC GEORGE PHILLIPS, trading as F. Darton & Co.
Wholesale Opticians 45 St. John Street West Smithfield London E.C. do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
For these purposes I employ a strip of steel metal or other material which I fit &
fix with a rivet or screw at the centre inside the cover or sometimes on the body of
the jar or pot having its ends curved & free to act as a spring slip which takes to the
rim or lip of cover or body when they are pressed together for closing. The action is
as follows, presuming the spring clip is placed in the cover as aforesaid by placing the
cover in position for its place on the body which when the cover is down close allows
the ends of the spring clip to close into its groove or inclined lip & hold the cover
securely to it. To release them is simply to raise the lid as with any ordinary
box lid.
2000
FRANCIS ARTHUR DARTON.
FREDERIC GEORGE PHILLIPS.

page_text: Jars, Pots, and for similar Purposes..
FRANCIS ARTHUR DARTON & FREDERIC GEORGE PHILLIPS 45 St. John Street
West Smithfield E.C. Wholesale Manufacturing Opticians 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 :-
For these purposes we employ a strip of steel-metal or other material which we fit
& fix with a rivet or screw at the centre inside the cover having its ends curved & free
to act as a spring clip which takes to the rim or lip of the body when they are pressed
together for closing.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side elevation of the body of jar.
Figure 2 is the spring clip. Figure 3 is the cover with spring clip a. a. with its curved
ends b. b. and fixed therein by a screw or rivet, d. in the centre. c. c. is the upper
or outer incline of rim or lip on which ride the ends b. b. of spring clip a. a. before
closing into the under incline d. d. when the cover is pressed down for closing.
The action is as follows-by pressing the lid figure 3 down on the body Figure 2
the arms or curved ends b. b. of the spring clip a. a. become extended by their action
on the incline c. c. until they get to the under or inward incline d. d. when they
immediately close into it & hold the lid Figure 3 & body Figure 1 securely together.
To withdraw the lid Figure 3 from body Figure 1 is simply to remove them as with
any ordinary jar or pot cover. The necessary force for so doing causes the arms b. b.
of the spring clip a. a. to become extended by their action on the under incline d. d.
until the lid figure 3 is released.
Having thus particular described & ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim as
our invention is
The use of a spring clip in combination with the inclined lip substantially as herein-
pofore illustrated
strated in the s
o accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of February 1888.
FRANCIS ARTHUR DARTON.
FREDERIC GEORGE PHILLIPS.