US2062216A - Container - Google Patents

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Nov. 24, 1936. H. A. FINK 2,062,216

CONTAINER Filed April 12, 1955 `ly,closing said spout.

.Patented Nov. 24, 1936y y e l l l UNITED STATES PATENT 4oFif-ics.

CONTAINER Henry A. liink, New York, N.. Y., assis-nor to Con^ tinental Can Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application .Aprily 12', 1935, Serial No. 18,084 1 Claim. (Cl. 220V-39) The invention relates to new and useful im- When the closure plug is screwed down within provements in a container and more in particuthe pouring spout, the annular seat' on the conlar to a container having` a pouring spout attainer end will engage a portion of said gasket tached thereto and a closure plug for hermetica1' for hermetically sealing the container. v

I i 1 Referring more in detail to the drawing, a con- 5 An object of the invention is to provide a container embodying the improvements is indicated tainer of the above type wherein the top end is at 1, said container comprising a body portion 8 shaped so as toprovide a resilient sealing seat and having a top end 9 joined thereto in the adapted to engage a gasket flxedly attached to well-known manner. The top end 9 is provided lo'the integrally closed end of the closure plug for with an opening I0 and surrounding said Opening 10 hermetically sealing the lcontainer. is an annular raised bead II. The bead serves Referring to the drawing: as a resilient sealing seat. Circumferentially Fig. 1 is.a view partially` in section and parspaced outwardly from the sealing seat or bead tially in side elevation showing the improved con- II is a recess I2 which is adapted to receive the tainer with its parts assembled. lower edge portion of a pouring spout I 3. While l5 Fig. 2 is a sectional view' taken through the the pouring spout -is shown as being soldered closure plug before the gasket is iixedly attached within the recess I2 onthe container for securto the bottom end thereof. .ingthe same in place, it might be readily attached Fig. 3 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 2, to the container in any other well-known manshowing the closure plug artery' the gasket has ner. 'Ihe pouring spout I I .is provided with a 20 been attached thereto. breast portion I4 which has screw threads IIJ Fig- 4 iS a 150D Plan View 0f the Closure plus. embossedtherein. At the upper end .of the pour- Fig. 5 is a vertical section view taken throughI ing spoutis a pouring lip lia. the pouring spout before attachment to the con-` A v-closure plug I8 is provided for the pouring tainer. l spout, said closure plug having screw threads I1 25 Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the same. -which are adapted to engage with the threads IB Fig. 7 is a view in vertical section ci a slightly on the pouring spout..v The upper end of the modiiied form of closure plug.- closure plug I6 is open and is provided with a se- .15 screw threads which are adapted to engage the In the modified form of the invention shown in 4,5

The invention relates particularly to a conries of iiattened portions Il whichserve to form tainer which is provided with a pouring spout a roughened hand grip for turning the closure and a closure plug. The container is of the plug when desired. The closure plug is provided usual construction and includes a body portion at its lower end with an integral bottom I0, saidl having a top end seemed thereto. 'Ihe top end bottom being inset from the lower edge 2o of the' has an opening through which the contents of plug to provide a recess 2l -i'or housing a sealing `l1he cntinel may be dispensed and S111'1'011ndin8 gasket 22 therein.` After the sealing gasket 22 is '35 said opening is an annular raised bead which placed within the recess 2l as indicated,vthe lower v A serves las a resilient sealing seat for the closure edge portion 20 of the closure plug which extends plug. AThe pouring spout has a vbreast portion below the gasket is inturned to clamp the gasketv with screw threads embossed therein and a pourin place. The portion 2p of the closure plug after I 40 ing -lip at its upper end. The diameter of the the gasket is secured in place, is so dlmensioned 40 pouring spout is such that when attached to the that when the closure p lug is screwed into Vthe top' end of the container, the screw threaded spout, the gasket will engage the annular seat II breast portion completely surrounds the resilient on the can top .and thus 4provide a hermetic seal sealing seat. The closureplug is provided with for the container.

threads on said breast. The closure plug isopen Fig. I of the drawing, the upper portion of the at its upper end and is formed with a series of closure plug I6 extends outwardly and downiiattened portions around the periphery of the wardly to form a recess Ita.l which is of suiiicient j upper edge for aiding in turning plug. The diameter so as to completely cover and protect plug has an integrally closed bottom, said bottom the upper end of the spout. This form o! closure 50 being inset from the Alower edge of the plug to plug might be particularly advantageous in pro- 'provide a recess :or housing a sealing gasket. A' tecting the inner side of thepouring spout and lipl sealing gasket is placed, in'the recess ,and the from dust and foreign matters after a portion of 'portion of'the plug below the gasket is inturned the contents of the container has been used and 5s to clamp the 'gasket in place in said recess. -'the container reclosed.

From the above, it will be apparent that a container for dispensing oil or other iluidproducts has been devised wherein a gasket is attached t9 the lower end of a closure plug, therefor by inturning the metal at theloiwer end.

2 y osano l l nonnina mout heini;4 provided with n brennt pci- Having thun described the invention, what r claim asnewanddesiretosecurebyLettersPab ent, is:-

A container including in ccinbinniicn n v portion having a top end attached thereto,l said end having anopening and an annular surrounding said opening and forming a resilient sealing seat, a pouring' spout attached to said container nnd surmundinz scid mung scat. imid tion having screw threads embossed therein and .with a pouring 11D at its upper end, la closure plus ior said pouring spout. said closure plug` having screw threads yfor engagement withthe threads on saidbreastfand an integral bottom. said bottom being inset from theA lower edge of said plug to Aprovide a gasket housing-recess. anda gasket in'-said recess; the portion of the plug below the .gasket :icing iniurned ic cinrnp the gasket in said 1Q recess ,and permit said annular seat onlthe container end to engage 'said gasket.

HENRY A. 'ma

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