US1148947A - Tobacco-can. - Google Patents

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1.0-. BOYLAN. TOBACCO CAN- APPLICATION FIL ED OCT. 13' 1914.

Patented A11 WITNESSES I a attains bananas eaten, or ANN Anson, MICHIGAN.

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To all'whom it mag concern Be it known that 1, JAMES D. Bor AN, a

citizen oi the United States, and a resident ofAmnArbor, in the county of lVashtenaw and State otMichigan, hive made certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco Cans, of which the following is a specification.

.My invention is an improvement in tobacco cans, and has for its object to provlde a can of the character specified, especially adapted for holding paper cartons of tobacco, such as smoking tobacco, and wherein I the can is provided with means adapted to be connected with the carton and with the can, for holding the carton in such position that access may be easily had to the tobacco.

In'the drawings: Figure l is a perspective view of the improved can, Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section, Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the lower portion of a carton and the holder for the same.

In the present embodimen of the invention the can comprises a bod '1 of elliptical cross section having a bottom 2 secured to the lower end thereof, and having a cover 3 at the upper end. The cover is provided with a marginal flange 41: fitting outside oi the body, and the said cover may be hinged to the body if desired, or merely seated thereon. The tobacco, indicated at 5, is held in the usual paper carton 6, and the body of the can is shaped to fit and receive the carton.

The body of the can is provided at each end with a series of transverse corrugations 7, the said corrugations forming ribs on the inner and the outer surface of the body.

The corrugations may. be formed in any manner desired, and the corrugations of each, series are spaced apart'at equal CllS- tances from each other. It will be noticed that the corrugations extend across-the side edges of the body, and are not continued to the opposite sides of the same. These corru gations are at the center'of the body, and

cover about one-third of the height of the can.

A plate 8 of resilient material is provided for connecting the carton with the can, and the said plate is shaped to fit within the can. The plate is provided at each end with a longitudinally extending reduced lug 9, for corrugations 7 and the Send plate is of such length that when the lugs 9.

engaging the Specification of Letters Patent. Pategn ted Aug, 3, 1915 Application filecibetober 13, 1914. Serial No. 866,432.

are in en a 'einent with the siaces between the ribs at each end of the can, the body of the plate will be arched or bowed, and this arch or bow is upward. The lower end of the carton is seated on the plate at the center thereof, as shown in Fig. 2, and pretenably the carton is connected to the plate by means of the strip 10. The said strip may be of any suitable material, and the-ends thereof are connected with the sides of the carton by an adhesive of any desired character. The body of the strip is passed beneath the plate 8 so that the plate is between the bottom of the carton and the body of the strip, and the carton is thus held to the plate by the strip.

Tobacco cans of the character in question are of slight Width as a rule, so that when a portion of the contents of the carton is removed, the surface of the tobacco in the carton will be below the level of the top of the can, and the user is liable to injure his fingers in thrusting them in this narrow space. lhe sharp edges of the can body are liable to cut the fingers, and in addition it is difficult to remove the proper amount of tobacco with the usual construction of can. In the present construction, however, as the tobacco is used, the plate 8 may be moved upward, the ends slipping over the corrugations, to bring the surface of the tobacco toward the top of the can, and the excess paper of the carton may be torn off and thrown away.

It will be noted that the corrugations 7 are so arranged that the ribs formed inside the can face upward, to permit the easy movement of the plate 8 upward, while making the downward movement impossible without releasing the plate at one end or springing the same. After the tobacco has been exhausted the plate is easily detached ready for the next carton. l

. The strip 10 may be a gummed sticker, of paper or the like, and it will be evident that any strip of paper having its ends gummed will suffice for this purpose.

In use, when the carton is first inserted in the can, the plate occupies a position against the bottom ofthe carton, being connected theretoby the strip 10, and the position of the plate is such that the top of the carton desired manner,-as for instance by pulling. upward on the excess paper of the carton,

thus he slipped upward; and since there is no partlcular jtnpediment to the upward movement' of "the plate, it may be moved in any As the carton moves the plate will move also, the ends slipping over the ribs, whichare similar to ratchet teeth. The carton may m pved' upward, until the last'of the tobacco is removed. Whenever the carton is moved'iupwardthe excess paper at the top is torn'away, so that the carton top is approxiinatelyflushwith the top of the body of the can.

I claim: I v 1. -A tobacco can for holding. a paper carton of-tobacco, said can heinglshaped to fit and receive the carton, and having a cover for closing the can, said can having at its opposite ends transverse corrugations form-' ing internal ribs, and a plate of resilient material adapted to fit within the can and having longitudinal extending lugs at its ends 5- ior engaging the ribs, said plate being of 2 greater length than the length of the can to -cause the plate to take an arched or bowed plate to insane? position in the can Y hen the lugs are engaged with the rib nd a strip or paper having its ends pro ,ded with an adhesive and adaptedv to becdhnectedto the carton and passing around the body of the plate intermediate the ends thereof to connect the carton and the plate, the ribs inside'the ca facing upward.

2, "A tobacco'can for holding a carton of tobacco and shaped to tit and receive the carton of tobacco, the can having oppositely arranged internal series of transverse cor rugations forming ribs, and a plate of resilient material adapted to fit within the can and having lugs at its end for engaging the.

ribs and of greater length than the can-to cause the plate to take an arched or bowed position in the can when the lugs are en

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