US285048A - Fruit-jar opener - Google Patents

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- G. A. LILJENCRANTZ..

FRUIT JAR OPENER.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,048, dated September 18, 1883.

V Application filed August 2, 1883. (No niodel.)

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Beit known that I, GUsrAvn ADoLPII M. LILJENCRANTZ, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Instruments for Opening Fruit J ars and Bottles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Great difficulty is often experienced by housekeepers and others whosebusiness requires them to open jars or bottles of preserved fruits, because of their inability to overcome the friction of the cap or cover caused by the suction due to the shrinkageof the fruit, or from other causes.

The object of my invention is to furnish means for easily removing the said cap 0r cover of fruit-jars, and this I accomplish by two instruments, viz., a wrench to unscrew the cap or cover, and astrap and buckle device to hold the bottle orj ar firmly in one position while said cap is being `removed, substantially as hereinafter fully described, and as set forth in the drawings, in which- Figure I is a plan view of my buckle. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same with the strap in position, showing the Inanner of its use. Fig. 8 is a plan view of my wrench, and Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same, together with a plan view of the buckle and strap, illustrating the mauner of their combined use. In the drawings, A represents a buckle, having side bars, a a, four cross-bars, l, 2, 3, and 4, and a handle, A, extending longitudinally from one end thereof. B represents a strap or band of suitable material, used in connection therewith. y

When it is desired to use the above-mentioned buckle and strap the latter is first slipped upward between the bar 4 and the handle, then between cross-bars 4 and 3, up again between 2 and 3, down between 4 and the handle, around the bottle on a horizontal plane, up between 2 and 3, and then down between I and 2, under bar 1. It will be noticed that the strap between cross-bar 4 and the handle and under cross-bar l laps over onto itself;

therefore, when it is desired to use the same,

and the handle is oscillated outward, (the bar I serving as the fulcrum, and bar 4 the point of greatest resistance,) the lateral and tensile strain on the strap will prevent it from slipping the buckle, and at the saine time tighten its grip on thejar or bottle. If desired, however, bar 4 may be dispensed with, in which event the strap would be looped around bar 3, back onto its lengt-h, and there riveted, thus connecting it -to -the buckle, so that there would be less likelihood of either part being lost to the other when not in use.

I do not limit myself to the buckle as above described, as it is obvious other forms may be substituted, which, when used in combination with the Wrench, would answer my purpose,

although not quite so well.

- The wrench consists of altrough-shaped bar, C, open at both ends, one end of which is bridged over. rIhe stock D of this bridge is extended longitudinally and terminates in two arms, d, diverging obliquely to either side of the same, and placed at about an angle of forty-Iive degrees to each other. These arms have eXtendin downward from their extremities the studs d, which bear against the periphery of the cap of the jar, and at a distance apart corresponding to about one-third the circumference of the smallest size cap.

In the channel or trough of the bar C operates longitudinally the tang FV of the jaw G. This tang passesnnder the bridge D, out from the open contiguous end of said trough, where it terminates, and is enlarged and extended downward to formthe jaw G, which latter,

`when in use, bears against the circumference of the jar-cap at a point intersected by a line equally dividing `the angle described by the arms d. On that part of the upper surface of the tang F which moves within the trough of the bar C is a raised part orprotuberanee, c, against which the operator presses his thumb Aor finger when adjusting the wrench around the periphery of thc cap. As nearly all the caps 0f fruit-j ars have a side projection of one kind or another, the j aw G will, as it is being turned to unscrew or remove the cap, meet and bear laterally against the same. The strain, therefore, will be laterally on the tang, so that very little pressure of the thumb on the protuberance c is needed to prevent the jaw G cross-bars connecting the sideframe, and havfrom moving longitudinally backward and ing a handle rigidly xed to and extending 2o' slipping said projection. longitudinally from one end thereof.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure 4. A buckle having a handle, as hereinbe- 5 by Letters Patent, isfore described, and having four cross-bars conl. A buckle, A, as described, havingahanneoting its side frames, the spaces between dle, in combination with a suitable strap or the second and third of which, and between 25 band, as set forth. the fourth and the handle, being` preferably 2. The combination, with a wrench having wider than the other, and the end cross-bar of 1o two diverging arms, with studs extending which, when in operation, serves as afulcrum. downward from the extremities thereof, and In testimony that I claim the-foregoing as having a jaw, G, the whole adapted to grasp my own, I hereunto affix my signature in pres- 3o the periphery of a fruit-j ar cap or cover, of a ence of two witnesses. buckle having a handle and strap connected T, I 5 therewith, adapted to hold the body of said GUSTME ADOLPH M LHJDNCRNTZ' jar'while the cap'is being removed, substanvW'itnesses: tially as specified. JAMES H. COYNE,

3. A buckle having preferably three or four FRANK D. THOMASON.

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