US902363A - Attachment for ice-cream cans. - Google Patents

Description

' E. G. APPLETON.

ATTACHMENT FOR ICE CREAM CANS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 30, 1907.

902,363. Patented 001;. 27, 1908.

WITNESSES: [AWE/Wok.

A TTOR/VE VS EUGENE Gr. APPLETON, OF BURLINGTON, IOWA.

ATTACHMENT FOR ICE-CREAM CANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2'7, 1908.

Application filed July 30, 1907. Serial No. 386,251.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE G. APPLETON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Attachment for Ice-Cream Cans, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficient device for centering ice cream cans within the bucket or case into which they are packed, and to prevent rising or floating of the can when the latter is only partially filled by reason of the water contained in the lower portion of the bucket or case, the attachment being so constructed and applied to the can that it does not interfere in any way with the opening and closing thereof, or the application or removal of the cream relatively thereto, and while it is capable of effectually resisting the rising tendency of the can, it may be quickly adjusted to release the can and permit its removal from the ice packed bucket or case.

To these and other ends, the invention comprises the various novel features of construction and combination and arrangement of parts, which will behereinafter more fully described, and pointed out particularly in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 shows an ice cream can equipped with a centering and retaining device constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment removed from the can. Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal section through the band fastener and the adjoining ends of the band, said section being taken on the line 00-00, Fig. 2.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are indicated throughout by similar characters of reference.

The attachment shown in the present embodiment of the invention comprises, generally, a band 1 which is preferably compressible or adapted to be adjusted about the periphery of an ice cream can preferably at a point' immediately below the usual circumferential bead which is usually formed adjacent to the upper end thereof and below the cover. In the present instance, the band is composed of a strip of sheet metal having portions thereof folded fiatwise of the metal to form a suitable number of radially bending lugs 2, and the latter are each provided with spur 3 which is pivoted to swing in a plane radially of the axis of the band. These spurs may be made in any suitable way, those shown being composed of punches of sheet metal folded on a longitudinal axis so as to engage on opposite sides of their respective lugs, a pivot pin 4 passing through the folded portions of the spur and through the lug and thereby serving to pivotally connect the spurs to the band.

In order to clamp the band immovably upon the can to enable it to accommodate itself to cans of different sizes, it is preferable to provide a suitable fastening for drawing together and securing the free ends thereof, the fastening shown in the present instance comprising a plate 5 secured to one end of the band and having a camshaped lever 6 pivotally attached thereto, the lever being adapted to enter either of a set of suitably spaced apertures 7 formed in the opposite end of the band.

In practice, the can is introduced into the bucket or packing case while the spurs are tilted upwardly above their respective pivots, such an arrangement of the spurs causing their pointed ends to move inwardly toward the center of the can and thus enable them to enter the bucket or case. After the can has been properly placed within the case, the spurs are depressed or spread, causing their pointed ends to obtain a firm hold in the wooden walls of the bucket or case. The spurs thus serve to collect and center the can within the bucket or case, so that the ice may be packed equally around it, and as the downward movement of the spurs is limited to a horizontal position by the corners 2 of the lugs, it will be impossible for the can to rise or float after it has been partially emptied, such an occurrence being objectionable for the reason that when the can rises the ice falls into the opening thus formed below the can and prevents replacing of the latter. Of course, in those cases where the attachments are applied to cans in which the cream is manufactured, the spurs may be turned upwardly so as to clear the walls of the bucket during the rotation of the can, and, when the process has been completed, the can may be secured by pressing down the spurs.

An attachment of the kind referred to may be made to sell very cheaply and is capable of being applied very easily to cans of different sizes, and, in practice, it serves to upon the lugs and disposed to cooperate with the walls of a receptacle to hold the can agamst movement in one direction.

2. A device for centering cans embodying a band adapted to encircle the can and having a set of radially extending lugs, and a set of spurs each having its inner end doubled to engage at opposite sides of its corresponding lug, and a pivot pin for connecting each lug and its corresponding spur to permit the latter to turn through a limited angle.

3. A device for centerlng cans embodying a band composed of flexible material having a set of alining apertures in one end and a lever pivotally attached to its opposite end and adapted to cooperate with any one of the said apertures, and a set of spurs on the band to engage the walls of the ice receptacle.

4. An attachment of the character described embodying -a band composed of a strip of flexible metal having portions thereof folded to form outwardly extending radial lugs means for clamping the band on the cans and a set of spurs pivoted on the said lugs and adapted to move into and out of engagement with the walls of the ice receptacle.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE G. APPLETON.

Witnesses:

7. E. BLAKE, G. F. DEMPSEY.

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