US521841A - Cover for milk-jars - Google Patents

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0. N. WILGOX. COVER FOR MILK JARS.

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UNITED I STAT s PATENT OFFICE.

CURTIS N. WILCOX, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

COVER FOR MILK-JARS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 521,841, dated June 26, 1894.

Application filed m 2a, 1993.

or covers for bottles and jars, in which the plate of tin or other metal designed for the cover was stamped out with two perforated projections or cars on its edge. forming part of the fastening device was passed through the said perforations, and the ears were then bent down over the wire and upon the upper face of the cover whereby the said wire and cover were securely held together by a hinged joint. This particular construction I have illustrated in Figure 1 of the drawings of the present application.

The object of my present improvement is to provide a simple device that *may serve as a handle for the jars to which the above described covers are applied and at the" same time to better secure the cover and the bail. I therefore form in the sheet metal cover an indentation under the wire and on each side of the center of the cover,a'circular groove or depression will best answer the purpose;- and extend the said ears so that they may embrace the wire where it extends across said depression. In the said ears are perforations, which when the ears are bent to place, permit the ends of an arched wire to be passed under and bent or twisted around both the Wire and the portions of the ears which lie over it. This wire thus applied aifords a bail or handle through which the finger may be passed, and by means of which a number of jars may be gathered up and carried by hand, and obviates the use of the boxes and baskets which are now always employed by milkmen and others who attend to the delivery or handling of such jars the ears through which the ends of the handle pass constitute stops which prevent the lateral displacement of the same Were such provision not made the handle would be liable to displacement particularly when the cover is not fastoned down, unless the wire or bail were so The wire bail Serial ll'oi 481,692- (No model.)

secured to the cover as to have no perceptible play with respect to the same. When made and applied in the manner described, the handle lies flat upon the cover when not in use, and it should not be of such dimensions as to extend beyond the edge of the same.

The invention consists also in another feature of construction in covers of this kind. In forming or stamping out the plates for the covers, I press the central portion so as to raise it slightly above the edges. Along the raised portion is a depression or groove in which the cross-wire or straight portion of the bail lies. The grooveor depression is made shallower at the central point than at its ends, said central point being slightly above the straight portion of the bail rest. WVhen the bailis forced down to clamp the cover onto the jar,it will pressupon the highest and central part of the groove with greatest force and thus exert a pressure which by the slight resiliency of the cover acts as a spring pressure evenly distributed to bind the edges of the cover tightly down upon the orifice of the jar.

In the accompanying drawings these features are illustrated.

Fig. l is a perspective View of a jar neck with my approved cover attached. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the cover. Fig. 3 is a section through the plate and wire on the line 0c.r of Fig. 2.

A is the jar neck, to which by any suitable and well-known appliances the ends of the bail B may be secured.

level of the edges upon which the ends of the j C is the plate or cover formed with a circu- I lar depression or groove D and formed with ears E which are perforated at F and G, and bent over the bail B as shown.

His awire bow the ends of which are passed under the wire or bail B through the perforations F, Gr, and then bent or twisted to secure it to the wire.

The central portion of the cap or cover 0 contains the'transverse groove K in which the wire B lies. The center of thisgroove, as indicatedin Fig. 2, is higher than its ends, for the purpose above described.

What I claim is 1. The combination in a jar-closing device of a cover of sheet metal having perforated ears at opposite edges, a wire or bail extending across said cover, the said wire being passed through the perforated ears which are bent down over the wire, and a bowed or arched wire the ends of which pass under the transverse portion of the bail through perforations in the cars and are twisted or turned around the bail, as set forth.

2. In a jar cover the .combination with a sheet metal plate having a central raised portion with a transverse groove therein, .which at its middle point is slightly higher than the edges of the cover, of a wire yoke or bail for clamping the cover to a jar and having a straight portion lying in the transverse groove, as set forth.

3. The combination of a sheet-metal plate having the depression or groove D, and ears E; a bail B passing through perforations in said ears which are bent down over the wire,

and the bowed wire H, the ends of which pass under the wire B through perforations in the cars E over the depression D and are bent or twisted around said wire.

4. The combination with a jar cover and a bail for securing the same to the jar and having a straight portion extending across the upper surface of said cover, of a bowed or arched Wire, the ends of which engage with said straight portion to form a handle and projections on the cover surrounding the bail and forming stops for preventing the displacement of said handle along the wire or bail as set forth.

CURTIS N. WILOOX.

Witnesses:

R0131. F. GAYLORD, JAMES N. (JATLow.

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