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Letters Patent No. 73,687, dated January 28, ISGS, I

IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF lJIILK-GANS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY OONOERN: A

Be it known that I, ESTES ABBOTT, of Willoughby, county of Lake, State of Ohio, have invented an Improved Milk-Can for city milkmen; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, .in which-- Figure is an elevation of my said improved milk-can.

Figure 2, a vertical section thereof, except the cover and a. portion of the neck.

Figure 3, a central section of the upper hoop or band; and

Figure 4, e central section of the lower one.

The same letters refer to similar parts in all 'the igures.

It is Well known' among city milkmen, and others who retail milk, that the milk-cans, as commonly manufactured, are not constructed with suiiicient strength to withstand the rough usage to which they are unavoidably subjected in the travelling-wagons and carts in which they are placed for the purpose of retailing the contents over n given route. In addition to this defect the body of the can is constructed or made up of a number,

more or less, of separate plates, making a multiplicity of seams. These seams not only need repeated repairfrom their great liability to crack, but the milk is very apt to settle and remain in them, so that in time it becomes sour, and the usual and common mode of cleaning the cans fails to remove such deposit, thereby tainting the fresh contents. i

The object of this invention is to provide a milk-can constructed in sueh'rnanncr, and so firmly put together, as to avoid as much as possible the above-enumerated defects.

The following description will enable those skilled in the art to understand its construction:

A, g. 1, is the body of the can. It is composed of one entire sheet of metal, say tinned sheet iron of suiicient thickness. The top, C, is of one'piece, andis pressed or struck up. It is secured on the inside of thev body A by soldering, as seen at F, iig. 2. The neck I), with its cover E, is iitted to the top in the usual or most convenient way. The bottom of the can, G, fig. 2, is ol` one entire piece of tinnedplate; its border or rim is turned down, as Shown at H, and in such manner as to leave a space, I, all around between it and the body of the can, which space is to be filled up solid with solder. It will be observed that'the said bottom is concave on the inside. This form, together with its turned rim II, is given by pressing or striking up. .I Jl J2 nre three hoops or bands placed on the body A; they are to be of stout band-iron tinned over. The upper band J, as will be seen in gs. 2 and 3, has its upper edge turned up, at or about a right angle, as seen at a. The lower edge of the lower band .I2 is turned in the same way, as at I. v

The above-described parts are put together thus: After the body A is formed and the seam soldered, the bottom, G, is put in place, and the space I filled solid with the solder. The top, C, is then secured to the body by solder on the inside, thon the neck D is secured to the said top. The band J is new driven on to its pla-ce, and also band J1, its turned edge a resting on the top edge of the body, as seen in fig. 2. Lastly the barrd'JZ is put on, its turned odge covering the under edge ofthe body A and bottom, G, as seen in thc figure. Both these turned edges are soldered down tight to the edges which they cover, as explained.

In order to secure the bands to the body in the strongest possible manner, the can, after completion, is horizontally suspended, just deep enough to cover the bands, in a. trough of molten tin, and revolved until the bands have taken enough to secure them to the body, as contemplated.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A new and improved milk-can, as described, constructed inthe manner substantially as herein set forth.

ESTES ABBOTT.

Witnesses J. I?. SINGLE, M. S. HARVEY.

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