Sheet metal container with plastic closure plug

• US 3,187,964 A
• Filed: 08/28/1964
• Issued: 06/08/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John A. Foster
• Original Assignee: John A. Foster
• Inventors: Foster, John A.
• Application Number:
  US04/393,488
• Time in Patent Office: 284 Days
• US Class Current: 222/480
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/0833 Hinges without elastic bias
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/147 for snap-on caps

Claims

2. THE COMBINATION OF, A SHEET METAL CONTAINER HAVING A TOP WITH AN ELONGATED OPENING THEREIN DEFINED BY A RIGID INTERNAL PERIPHERAL WALL HAVING ELONGATED APPROXIMATELY PARALLEL SIDES AND SUBSTANTIALLY SHORTER ENDS MERGING THEREWITH, SAID SIDES BULGING OUTWARDLY TO SPACE THE INTERMEDIATE PORTIONS THEREOF APART A DISTANCE SOMEWHAT GREATER THAN THE LENGTHS OF SAID ENDS, AND A PLUG TYPE COVER FOR CLOSING SAID OPENING COMPOSED OF RESILIENTLY YIELDABLE PLASTIC MATERIAL LARGER THAN SAID OPENING HAVING A SKIRT INTEGRAL WITH AND DEPENDING FROM SAID COVER AND HAVING A CONTINUOUS OUTWARDLY PROJECTING PERIPHERAL BEAD TELESCOPED IN SAID OPENING AND LARGER THAN SAID WALL BY A SMALL AND SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM DIFFERENCE SUFFICIENT TO INSURE OUTWARD BUCKLING OF THE BEAD AND COMPRESSION AGAINST SAID WALL AROUND THE ENTIRE PERIPHERY THEREOF AS AN INCIDENT TO PERIPHERAL COMPRESSION OF THE BEAD AS SAID SKIRT IS PRESSED INTO SAID OPENING.