US164857A - Improvement in fruit-cans - Google Patents

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S. W. MBOMBEBQ Fruit-Ban.

' Patented June 22,1875.

' VWITNESSES ATTORNEYS THE GRAPHIC C(LPHDTOrLITH-SQ 8H4 PARK PLACEJLY.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

SANFORD w. MGOMBER, OF NORTH MANCHESTER, INDIANA, AssIeEoE oE ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT T0 JOHNSON M. BURDGE, 0E SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT-CANS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.

164,857, dated June 1875 application filed April 17, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SANFORD W. MoOM- BER, of North Manchester, in the county of Wabash and State of Indiana, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Tin Fruit-Gan and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon. V

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of aplan view of my fruit-can; and Fig. 2 is a vertical central sectional view of the same.

This invention has relation to what are denominated self-sealing fruit cans, the covers of which are held down by means of crossbars forced over the covers and the nature of my invention consists in a spring-bar, havin g grooves on one end and a shoulder on the other combined with a hook and eye on the can, and with a tubular detachable lever for applying the bar over the cover of the can, as will behereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a cylindrical can, which may be made of metal or other suitable material, and which is constructed with a flange, a, surrounding the hole through its top. B designates the cover of the can, which cover has a convex top and a flange, b, surrounded by a flat edge, 0, for

, giving the cover a broad bearing-surface on an india-rubber packingring, d, surrounding the flange a and lying on the top of the can. (3 designates a loop or eye, and D a hook, which parts are secured to the can A diamettrically opposite each other, and in a plane below the highest part of the cover B, when this cover is in place on the can. E designates a springmetal rod of suflicient length to reach from the eye 0 to the hook, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. One end of the rod E- is grooved, as shown at e, and is received in the eye 0, and the other end of this rod is reduced, as shown at f, and also grooved. The grooves in the ends of rod E prevent it from casual detachment from its eye and hook, by an endwise thrust, and the reduced end f is intended to receive the tubular end of a leverhandle, G, by means of which the rod E can be forcibly sprung over the cover B and pressed under the hook D. When the rod E is forced in its hook and eye the lever G is removed. By the use of lever G, there will be no liability of burning the hands in applying the rod, and a purchase is obtained with a comparatively short rod, aiiording great facility in its application to the can.

I am aware that the cover of a preserve-can has heretofore been secured in place by means of a cam-shaft provided with an arm, the shaft being inserted in eyes attached to the can, and I therefore lay no claim .to such invention.

I What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Ths spring-rod E, grooved at both extremities, and provided at one end with the reduced portion f, in combination with the detachable lever or key G, the convex cover B and can A, having the eye-and hook G D, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

' SANFORD W. MGOMBER.

WVitnesses: Y

J. M. BURDGE, VARNUM J. OARDE.

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