US1851483A - Collar for connecting container bodies to their lids - Google Patents

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March 29, 1932. as. BAl QON COLLAR FOR CONNECTING CONTAINER BODIES TO THEIR LIDS Filed April 13, 1928 awe/whoa;

Fatented Mar. 29, 1932 UNITED STATES P'ATBEZ'NI'TTIOFFW CHARLES S. BARON, OF TIFFIN, OHIO COLLAR mm CONNECTING CONTAINER (BODIES TO THEIR LIDS Application filed April 13,

My present invention relates to the subject matter of my application for United States Letters Patent, Serial Number 218,071, filed September 7, 1927 and has for its object improvements in the flexible collar for the connection of the lid to the container body described in said application, whereby snugness of fit of the said connection is augmented, and the-manipulation of the collar for the pur-.

poses of adjustment is facilitated.

What constitutes my present invention will be hereinafter described in detail, and succinctly defined in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate my invention,

Figure I is a side elevation of a portion of the container body, its lid, and means of connection between the same as shown in my previous application with the variation of flexible collar embraced herein as a substitute for part thereof. 7

Figure II is a top plan view, partly in sec-. tion, of the said flexible collar detached and in its preferred form of embodiment.

Figure III is a view similar to Figure II, showing a slight modification of the collar locking device.

Figure IV is a similar view of a further modification of the locking device.

Figure V is a vertical section on an enlarged scale of so much of the subject matter of Figure I as is necessary to illustrate the relationship of collar and lid connection.

Figure VI is an outside elevation of the device taken at right angles to the view shown in the preceding figure. j

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, 1 indicates the body of a glass or other container, which is provided with an integral mouth-defining ring 2.. The ring is provided with an outwardly extending peripheral flange 3, defining between it and the body a neck comprising an annular recess at, all the 7 parts above indicated being substantially identical, in respect to form and function,

with the correspondin parts shown in myprevious application a oresaid.

Snuglyfitting within the recess 4 is a flexible resilient collar 5 which embodies my pres ent invention. Said collar'is distinguished 192a Serial ama from the collar shownin my'previous application by comprising within itself a locking device foruniting its ends together in order to secure itin place within the recess 1. i

In that f'r'egard, a" bifurcated "fastening .88 member separate from the collar is shown'in my prevlous application as a necessarypart' for uniting together *the'ends of the" collar body. By my present invention, the necessity for the separate fastening, member,as 06' such, is eliminated, but the member indicated herein by the numeral 8, in so far as i I Q i-Q stitutes a hingesupport for acon'ta'iner'ilid 9, is retained to constitute a hingecliph In the present instance, the member, 8 need' 'not be bifurcated,although actu'al'eliminationof the presence of the bifurcation is not neces- .sary. With the exception of the'bifurcation,

the form of the memberS and its means of forminga hinge connection with the container lid're'mains unchanged; Specifically, the fulcrum plate, indicated herein by the numeral 10 and disposed preferably between knuckles 11 and12 as in'Ithe preceding appli cation, is retained for the purpose of effecting the function'therein specified. The "collar 5,'aforesaid, is, in the present invention, preferably provided near oneend with 'a 'button' and near. the othe'rlend: r with aicomplementary slot 16, of twotrans verse widths adapted, respectively, to re c-eive the button 15 and, by hook engagement with the shank thereof, to fastenthe ends ofthe collar 5*together when the. collaris,

set in theannu'lar recess 4. 1

Thebutton and slotconnectionjust de scribed is at present freg'ardedQ-as the pre{ ferred form of locking device for uniting the ends of the collar together, but a slight modification of the locking device is illustrated in Figure III, wherein is shown inste'ad'of the'button 15, a headed flat retaining piece 17 which is cut out of the metalof the collar 5, and is bent outwardly to constitute a male retaining member corresponding in function 9 to the button 15. It is adapted to take into i I a complementary narrow transverse slit, l8, and to constitute, in effect, a substitute for the button and slot connection above described. In Figure IV a modification of the of locking device, consisting of two interenga- gring hooks 19 and 20, is shown. The three forms of locking device illustratedare presented as examples only of a variety of forms of locking devices which might, if desired,

be employed for the purpose indicated.

' Besides a suitable,lockinghdevice, I prefer Ito provide'the' collar 5.With a countersunk recess 21 fitted to and adapted to receive and hold the hinge clip 8. Also, I prefer to pro vide the collar with a contractile .or tension device consisting, preferably, of a transverse expansible loop 22 formed in the col- 1 .lar as by bendingthe resilient body thereof.

The presence of said loop permits the elongation of thercollar in order to facilitate its adjustment in assembling it with other membersf ponthe container. -The contractile effeet of-cthecollar 5 may bearrived at through the ,resiliency'alone of themetal of which i thecollar is made, or it may be accomplished by pinching, together thefsides ofthe loop- 22 between-the jaws of a, pair of ordinary hand ipliersyyvhenthe collar 5 is fitted in place in the recess 4 ofthe container body 1 .lTliewoperation of ,my device will, it is :believedybeappar'ent to one'skilled in the art,

particularly in view of my previou app cah'erein'." a

Whatlfllfii i 7 tion, afioresai'd,;vvithont further description tainer consisting ,of a resilient flexible tegral me tallic collar, means detachablyiconnecting thefends of the collar together, said collar being normallyllarger than the neck ofthjeicontainer soasto facilitate the inserr so.

i 1 testimony IWhere L I have herenntoset 7 tionof the neck of the container into the collar and havinga-contractile loop formed therein atO providefiompressible spaced -side portions adapted when compressed to insurethe positive engagement of the parts[ ,2. The combinatiQ l Witha container, a lid,

a clip connected to said lid, a fresil ient flexible collar normally larger than the neck ofthecontainer so as to'facilitate the insertion of the neckof the container into. the

"collar and having an enlarged oft-set poron inga ng sa d .h ng filip or m int ining the lid in positiononsa'id container, said collar-halving acontractile loop formed therein, to provide compressible spaced side portionsadapted when compressed to, insure the positive engagement ofgthe parts. a w

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