US2202796A

US2202796A - Cover for tobacco jars

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Publication number: US2202796A
Application number: US222235A
Authority: US
Inventors: Hermani Louis
Original assignee: OWENS ILLINOIS CAN Co
Current assignee: OWENS ILLINOIS CAN Co; OWENS-ILLINOIS CAN Co
Priority date: 1938-07-30
Filing date: 1938-07-30
Publication date: 1940-05-28
Anticipated expiration: 1957-05-28

Description

` May2s.1940. HERMAN, 2,202,796

COVER FOR TOBACCO JARS Filed July 30. 1938 INVENTOR. aU/,S HER/m NJ:

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Patented May 28, 1,940A

yUNITED STATESPATENT oFFlcE COVER FOR TOBACCO JARS Louis Hermani, Baltimore, Md.,

assignor to Owens-Illinois Can Company, a corporation of The present invention relates to covers for tobacco jars and more particularly to a loose cover for an hermetically sealed cylindrical metallic box, the cover being of the type having a radial sliding cutter designed when the cov'er is pressed upon the top of the box to puncture the top, and upon rotation of the loose cover to cut out the top o-f the box.

It is an object of the invention to provide a tobacco jar cover of the type set forth above which is formed with a hollow enlargement thereon that serves the two-fold purpose of providing a handle by means of which the cover may be rotated to actuate the cutter and also of providing a humidiiying chamber adapted to contain a moistening agent for the contents of the jar after the top thereof hasbeen removed and the jar is employed as a humidor.

Another object of the invention is to provide such a tobacco jar cover having associated therewith a removable register of the rotary cut-off type which is frictionally and removably received within the hollow enlargement and which serves to retain the moistening agent within the latter.

Other objects of the invention, not at present enumerated, Will become apparent hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional View taken through a tobacco jar cover manufactured in accordance with the principles of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the cover.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken substantially along the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Hg. 4 is a plan view oi a rotary cut-off disk forming one part of a register employed in connection with the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a side elevational view of the cut-oli" device.

Fig. 6 is a side elevational view of the stationary part of the register, and

Fig. 7 is a bottom plan view of the disclosure of Fig. 6.

The tobacco jar cover is shown in Fig. 1 apiplied to a tobacco jar I0, the latter being shown in dotted lines. The cover includes a circular top II having a peripheral strengthening rib I2 formed thereon and a depending peripheral skirt I3 adapted to be telescoped over the neck portion of the jar I0. The top II is provided with a raised central portion I4 the medial part of which is cut away to provide an inwardly extending circular rim I5. A deep drawn hollow cup-shaped enlargement I6 is formed with a dome-like top I'I and a depending skirt I8 the lower edge of which is flanged outwardly over d 38, Serial N0. 222,235

the rim I5.v The skirt wall is generally cylindrical but is flared outwardly near the top thereof as at I9 for a purpose to be set forth hereinafter.

'Ihe top II is Vprovided with a short radiallyv extending slot 25 near the periphery thereof in which there is slidably disposed a cutter 26 having a depending blade 21 designed to puncture the top of the jar I0 when the cover is pressed downwardly thereon. The enlargement it serves as a handle by means of which the cover may be turned upon the jar to cause the cutter blade 21 to circumscribe the top of the jar and sever the same from the neck portion thereof.

A register of the rotary cut-off type and including a stationary part Sil (Figs. 3, 6 and 7) and a rotary disk 3l (Figs. 3, 4 and 5) which is riveted thereto is telescopically disposed in the hollow enlargement I6 and is frictionally held therein by means of axially extending resilient fingers 32 formed on the stationary part 3B. The fingers 32 are flared slightly outwardly as at 33 adjacent their outer ends and these flared portions 33 are received in the annular void created by the flared portion I9 of the enlargement I 6. Thus it will be seen that the register is frictionally held in position in the enlargement against 25 dislodgment.

The disk 3I is provided with a raised iinger knob 313 whereby the disk may conveniently be turned relative to the stationary part Sli to bring a series of ports 35 formed inthe former into register with a similar series of ports 36 formed in the latter and thereby obtain a greater or less degree of circulation of moisture down and into the jar Ill. Such regulation, of course, is

accomplished by removal of the cover from the 35' Jar.

The enlargement I6 provides a chamber which is adapted to contain a moistening device such as a sponge 3l or other absorbent material which may conveniently be installed therein by removal of the register and insertion of the material in the register between the lingers 32 after which the register may be replaced in the enlargement I6.

Modifications may be resorted to within the 45 spirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A loose cover for containers comprising a circular top provided with a central raised por- 50 tion, the medial part of said raised portion being cut away to provide a central opening surrounded by a marginal inwardly extending rim, a hub-like enlargement including a dome-like top -and a epending side wall, the lower edge of the side 55 wall being anged over said inwardly extending rim, said side wall being substantially cylindrical and having its upper region ared outwardly to provide an internal annular channel in the enlargement, and a register for the lower end of the enlargement including a substantially circu lar disk having a series of axially extending divergent fingers formed thereon, said fingers having their medial portion disposed in frictional engagement with the medial portion of the side wall of the enlargement and having their extremities extending outwardly into said annular channel, and a rotary cut-01T disk secured to said circular disk.

2. A loose cover for containers comprising a circular top provided with a central raised porcut away to provide a central opening surrounded by a marginal inwardly extending rim, a hublike enlargement including a dome-like top and a depending side wall, the lower edge of the side wall being fianged over said inwardly extending rim, said side wall being substantially cylindrical and having its upper region flared outwardly to provide an internal annular channel in the enlargement, and a register for the lower end of the enlargement including a substantially oircular disk having a series of axially extending divergent fingers formed thereon, said lingers having their medial portion disposed in frictional engagement with the medial portion of the side Wall of the enlargement and having their extremities extending outwardly into said annular channel, and a cut-orf disk secured to said circular disk.

LOUIS HERMANI.