US179267A - Improvement in nozzles for cans - Google Patents

Description

G. H. CHINNOCK.

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Patented June 27,1876,

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Nrrrm GEORGE H. OHINNOOK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN NQZZLES FOR CANS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,267, dated June 27, 1.876; application filed February 7, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. OHINNOCK, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Nozzles for Boxes, Cans, Packages, 850., of which the following is a specification:

This invention is designed for use upon tin cans, boxes, small sacks or pouches, &c., designed for holding liquid or dry materials. The invention comprises a novel combination of a solid-top sheet-metal nozzle, with a swiveled leaf or section attached to the upper part thereof, whereby the nozzle, when in use upon a can, box, or package may be kept hermetically sealed as may be required during storage or transportation, and be afterward easily opened by means of a knife or other implement to permit access to or egress of the contents of the can, box, or package, after which the nozzle may be temporarily closed by turning the swiveled leaf or section over the opening 'made in the solid top of the nozzle, as just set forth.

Figure l is a plan or top view of a nozzle made according to my invention when constructed with a nozzle having a solid top, and hermetically closed for storage or transportation. Fig. 2 is also a plan view of my said invention, showing the same with the top of the solid-top nozzle perforated or provided with an opening to afford access to or egress of the contents of the vessel to which the nozzle is applied. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

A indicates the surface of the can, box, or

' package to which the nozzle may be attached in any suitable way. The bodyB of the nozzle is of circular form, as more plainly indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, and is of sheet metal, spun or otherwise brought to the requisite shape. (J is the top of the nozzle, and is formed of a circular plate of tin or other sheet metal, the edges of which are inserted or embedded in the groove a, provided internally at the upper edge of the body B. This groove a, being formed in the inner side of an external rib or head, I), spun or turned upon the upper edge of the body B. D is a leaf or section of circular form, corresponding to that of the body B of the nozzle. The circular circumference of this leaf is turned over the rib I) just hereinbefore described, as indicated more plainly in Fig. 3. This fitting of the periphery c of the leaf or section D over the rib b attaches the leaf to the body B of the nozzle, and, the one being concentric with the other, permits the leaf to be turned around upon said body, provided the lapping of the periphery of the leaf is not so snugly made as to prevent, by friction, the turning of the leaf upon the body B, the leaf, by the means just herein described, being thus swiveled upon the'bodyB. The leaf or section D has nearly one-half cut away, one side of the opening thus made being straight across at or near the center of said leaf, as shown at, a, while the opposite side of said opening is semicircular, as indicated at b concentric with the circumference of the leaf. When the deviceis constructed as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the top 0 is solid, hermetically closing the nozzle, while the leaf D remains in position ready to be used as soon as a perforation or opening shall be made in the aforesaid solid top of the nozzle. When it is required to have access to or to take from the contents of the package or vessel to which the nozzle is applied, an opening may be made in the top 0, as shown at d, in Fig. 2. This opening maybe made by means of a knife or other suitable instrument, and may be more or less rude or irregular in contour. An opening being thus provided in the top 0, it is of course desirable to temporarily close the same when such opening is not required for access to or for the escape of the contents of the vessel or package. This closure of the opening is obtained by simply turning the leaf or section D around until it is brought over said opening, and of course snugly and closely covers the same. The just herein previously described construction of my improved nozzle may be adopted for ves sels containingliquid or semi-liquidsubstances. When the nozzle is to be used upon boxes or packages containing dry materials, as, for example, upon small sacks or pouches of granulated tobacco, the nozzle is by preference originally constructed with an opening in its top, as represented in Fig. 2. It is preferred that this opening should be of semicircular form, the rear of the opening being somewhat The nozzle for cans, boxes, and packages, constructed with the solid top (3, in combination with a swiveled and apertured leaf or section attached to the top orupper part thereof, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

GEO. H. OHINNOCK.

Witnesses J. A. WHITNEY, W. E. OHAFFEE.

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