COLORED CODED GAS CONTAINER BANDS

• US 3,787,993 A
• Filed: 08/21/1972
• Issued: 01/29/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George E. Lyon
• Original Assignee: George E. Lyon
• Inventors: Lyon, George E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Michell, Robert W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Heinz, A. J.
• Application Number:
  US05/282,605
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• Field of Search: 40/19,21R,21A,21B,21C,306-307,67,5,2,309,311,329,334,28R,310,325 116/114S
• US Class Current: 40/306
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 13/003 Means for coding or identifying them and/or their contents
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2201/0109 with exteriorly curved end-piece
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2201/0119 with flat end-piece
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2205/05 Vessel or content identifications, e.g. labels
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/00 Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means medals or badges A44C3/00; making labels B31D1/02; sheets temporarily attached together B42F; labelling B65C; labels on record carriers G11B23/38, G11B23/40; Seals; Postage or like stamps

Abstract

A container of gas used for industrial commercial or home use has an upstanding portion with two like circular grooves in its outer periphery which are disposed horizontally and are vertically displaced, the grooves being separated by a horizontal circular ridge. An identification band, coded to indentify the type of gas, is disposed in one groove to indicate that the container contains a usable amount of gas and is disposed in the other groove to indicate that the container is empty. The band can also be reversed when moved from the one groove to the other.

Claims

1. In combination;

a container of bottle gas comprising an opaque gas tight upstanding circular cylinder of uniform diameter having a vertical axis;

saidcylinder having first and second vertically spaced horizontal circumferential grooves in the outerperiphery;

said periphery having a narrow horizontal circumferential ridge separating said circumferential grooves; and

an annular identification band of elastic material of a diameter slightly less than that of said ridge to fit snug in one of said grooves;

said identification band having inner and outer surfaces said surface having respective contents bearing indicia;

said cylinder periphery having finger tip recess means positioned adjacent each of said grooves, said recess means intersecting said grooves whereby said band may be flipped from one groove to the other by suitable manual manipulation thereby exposing the indicia on either surface of said band.