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WVILLIAM A. \VILLIAMSQN, OF CLAYTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOHN M. MOORE, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 280,701, dated July 3, 1883.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. WILLIAM- soN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Clayton, Gloucester county, New J ersey, have invented an Improvement in Fruit- Jars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of fruitjars in which a detachable cap is combined with a bail having hooks at opposite ends adapted to inclined shoulders on the neck of the jar; and the object of my invention is to so construct the cap and fastener that while the bail may be turned to secure and release the cap independently of the latter it will have a firm central bearing, without tending to crack or otherwise injure the said cap. This object I attain, as more fully described herein-. after.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view, partly in section, of my improved fruit-j ar; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the cap and bail and Figs. 3 and 4, front and side views, respectively, of a cap with another form of bail made in accordance with my invention.

A is the jar, which may be of any convenient. shape, and is provided with inclined lugs or shoulders a (tr-lJWO in the present instance.

B is the cap, of glass or other suitable material, adapted to fit on the neck of the jar, with an intermediate rubber gasket, b, to form a tight joint when the cap is secured in place.

The bail D is provided with hooks d at op- .posite ends, adapted to take under the inclined lugs or shoulders a 011 the neck of the jar. On the center of the under side of this bail is formed or secured a bearing-block, E, preferably of the cylindrical form shown, and having a flat under side adapted to fit freely in a corresponding cylindrical recess in the center of the cap. When the cap has been put in,

place and the hooked ends of the bail have been passed between the ends of the lugs a a, and then turned so as to bind on the inclined under sides of said lugs, the pressure is brought to bear through the block E firmly on the center of the cap the most advantageous point and as the flat face of the said block forms an extended bearing-surface, undue pressure on the bail will not be apt to cause the glass cover to crack, and yet at the same time this central Application filed May 4, 1883. (No model.)

bearing allows the bail to be very readily turned independently of the cap itself, and manipulated without that gritting and friction which results where the bail has a bearing around the periphery of the cap. I secure the bail to the cap so that while it may turn independently of the latter it may remain attached thereto. This may be accomplished in different ways. For instance, projections 19 may be'formed on the bail itself, which may fit under a shoulder, b, Figs. 1 and 2, on the cap; or a wire, m, Figs. 3 and 4, may be secured to the bail so as to fit under the said shoulder and retain the bail, while allowing it to freely revolve.

When the bail D is provided with projections 19 to fit under the shoulder b of the cap, a notch, 19, may be formed in the'said shoul der 1), to permit one of the projections 12 to pass through it to fit the bail to the cap; or the said bail may be made of malleable metal, with its hooked ends sufficiently open to enable the projections p to be passed over the shoulders and then bent inward to retain the bail on the cap. These projections p and wire m only serve to retain the bail on the cap, and not to hold the cap to the jar, the only bearing on the cap for this purpose being by the block E.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of a fruitjar cap having a shoulder, 12, with a bail, D, having a block, E, adapted to bear centrally on the cap, hooks d, adapted to engage with lugs on the jar, and a device, substantially as described, for engagement with the flange or shoulder b of the cap, whereby the bail is retained on the cap but allowed to rotate thereon, as set forth.

2. The combination of a fruit-jar cap having a shoulder, b, the hooked bail D, having a central bearing, E, and a retaining-wire, 'm, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' W. A. WVILLIAMSON.

Witnesses:

HARRY L. ASHENFELTER, HARRY SMITH.

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