US2569088A

US2569088A - Cylindrical packing vessel

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Publication number: US2569088A
Application number: US99937A
Authority: US
Inventors: Arijoki Torsti Erkki
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1949-01-13
Filing date: 1949-06-18
Publication date: 1951-09-25
Anticipated expiration: 1968-09-25

Description

Sept. 25, 1951 T. E. ARIJOKI 2,569,088

CYLINDRICAL PACKING VESSEL Filed Julie 18, 1949 'wIII-IIIIIHI T SL222 Mi Patented Sept. 25, 1951 [UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Torsti Erkki Arijoki, Helsinki, Finland Application June 18, 1949, Serial No. 99,937 In Finland January 13, 1949 4 Claims. (01. 217 '19) The most dry oods or materials and. all liquid goods need for transporting and storage packing vessels. The dry goods are usually packed in boxes made of board, while on the other hand the liquids almost without exception require vesse'lsimade liquid tight of sheet metal or other suitable material.

The manufacturing of boxes calls for a lot of boards of fixed dimensions, a remarkable nailing work and eventually clamping connectors. The work requires plenty of time and is. expensive. Besides this the transportation is inconvenient and heavy, while the boxes are to be moved with trucks or by carrying. Such is the case also with many packing vessels for liquids. If the vessels are made of wood, barrels, they will be, according to the present manufacturing methods, expensive especially due to the quality of the timber and the tedious method of manufacturing.

The present invention has as its object a cylindrical. packing vessel, easy to open and close and which is assembled so, that the parts will not break by opening of the vessel and will thus bear several uses. Further the construction is light and strong and the vessel is due to its cylindrioal form easy to move, and the manufacture of same is simple and cheap.

The invention embodies a packing vessel whose side walls or mantle consists of a cylinder, made of veneer by bending, the seam or seams are joined together with a strip of veneer, riveted or glued over the seam, the bottom and lid or cover are made of at least two separated parts, which laid on their place are with the aid of one or more wedges pressed outwards from the middle towards the upper inside surface of the mantle and theslit betweenthe lid parts caused by the wedges is tightly closed by a sheet or strips of suitable form secured in a suitable manner.

The accompanying drawings illustrate two performances of the invention.

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the lid;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section at 11-11 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section at III-III of Fig.1; and

Fig. 4 is an elevation of the vessel.

The mantle l of the packing vessel is made of veneer and bent on a suitable mould in a cylindrical form. On the ends of the mantle and if required also on other places are fastened bands 2 made of veneer. The seam of the mantle is joined with a strip of veneer, glued or secured The lid and bottom of the vessel are alike and made of two halves from the middle parts of which is removed so much of the material that they can easily be laid on their place. The outer surface of the lid has a diameter greater than the part inside of the vessel end forming a supporting flange 3 on top of the actual lid part 4.

For the liquid tight vessels the opposite edges of the lid halves 4 are furnished with grooves for tongues, e. g. a tightly fitting veneerstrip 9.

An opening in one of the lid halves is closed by a screw 10.

' For securing the lid 4 on the mantle I the inside edge of same is furnished with a groove 5 and on the edge of the lid 4 has been cut or turned a corresponding tongue or bead 6.

For tightening the lid on its place the outer ends of the slit between the lid halves against the mantle l are furnished with perpendicular,

1 outwards narrowing wedge grooves, in which the tightening downwards and outwards narrowedwedges II are pressed or struck, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the lid halves are pressed by the inclined wedge faces Ila against the mantle outwards from each other and the bead 6 on their outer edge is pressed in the corresponding groove 5 in the mantle thus locking the lid firmly on its place.

The tightening wedges II can be placed at some distance from the ends of the slit or at the ends of same. The wedges can be arranged either on only one end of the slit or, especially by greater vessels, on both ends of the slits. When the lid is tightened on its place, the slit is covered by nailing over it a strip of veneer, which simultaneously the wedges II from falling out.

The described method of securing the lid and bottom needs no nailing to hold the lid in its place. The closing and opening of the lid is thus easy and fast to perform, only by fastening or loosening the wedges l I.

The coneshaped packing vessels, having different diameters on lid and bottom and alternatively only one or both ends made as shown and described above, are also included as objects of this invention.

The invention is not limited to the details of construction and arrangement herein shown and described, and any changes and modifications may be made therein within the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a cylindrical vessel of veneer having a mantle with an internal groove within at least one end of the vessel, the combination of a lid comprising two complementary halves with outer arcuate beaded edges adapted to cooperate with the internal groove in the mantle, the two lid halves having a slit between the inner opposite edges thereof, spacing said lid halves apart; an elongated tightening tongue disposed in the slit between the lid halves to close the major portion of the length of said slit and terminating short of, and spaced a predetermined distance from the mantle at both ends of said tongue to provide wedge spaces beyond the ends of said tongue; and a pair of downwardly narrowed wedges which are movable at right angles to the top surface of the lid occupying said wedge spaces and serving to wedge said lid halves apart into the groove in said mantle, the lid halves, tongue and wedges being disposed in the same general plane.

2. In a cylindrical vessel having a mantle with an internal groove, the combination of a lid comprising two complementary halves with outer arcuate beaded edges adapted to cooperate with the internal groove in the mantle, the two lid halves having a slit between the inner opposite edges thereof, spacing said lid halves apart and said lid halves having opposite Wedge spaces in at least one end of said slit in said inner opposite edges of the lid halves; an elongated tightening tongue located in said slit to close the same but terminating at said one end short of, and spaced a predetermined distance from, said mantle to provide an opening beyond the end of said tongue; and a downwardly narrowed Wedge which is movable at right angles to the top surface of the lid occupying said opening and fitting in the Wedge spaces of said lid halves.

3. In a cylindrical vessel having a mantle with an internal groove, the combination of a lid com prising two complementary halves with outer arcuate beaded edges adapted to cooperate with the internal groove in the mantle, the two lid halves being spaced apart to form a slit therebetween and having grooves in the inner opposite edges thereof, and said lid halves also having opposite wedge spaces in said inner opposite edges at both ends of said lid halves; an elongated tightening tongue located in the slit between the lid halves and extending into the grooves in the latter and closing said slit, but terminating short of, and spaced a predetermined distance from, the mantle at both ends of said tongue to provide openings beyond the ends of the latter; and a pair of downwardly narrowed wedges which are movable at right angles to the surface of the lid occupying said openings and fitting in the wedge spaces of said lid halves.

4. In a cylindrical vessel having a mantle with an internal groove, the combination of a lid comprising two complementary halves with outer arcuate beaded edges adapted to cooperate with the internal groove in the mantle, the two lid halves being spaced apart to form a slit therebetween and also having opposed wedge spaces in the inner opposite edges thereof at both ends of said lid halves; an elongated tightening tongue disposed in the slit betwen the lid halves to close the major portion of the length of said slit and terminating short of, and spaced a predetermined distance from, the .mantle at both ends of said tongue to provide openings beyond the ends of the latter; and a pair of downwardly narrowed wedges which are movable at right angles to the surface of the lid occupying said openings and fitting in the wedge spaces of said lid halves.

TORSTI ERKKI ARIJOKI.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 657,754 Baylor Sept. 11, 1900 741,332 Hatch Oct. 13, 1903 744,499 Davenport Nov. 17, 1903 2,267,888 Arnold Dec. 30, 1941