US1563272A - Combined milk-can opener and sealer - Google Patents

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Nov. 24, 1925. 1,563,272

A. FONAAS COMBINED MILK CAN OPENER AND SEALER 1 Original Filed @135 5. 1924 a-. l lll lllli ll llllll INVEN TOR.

FILEIERT FEINFIFIS A U 'ORNEY Patented Nov. 24, 1925.

um'rsn STATES PATENT OFFECE.

GOMBINED MILK-CAN OPENER AND SEALER.

Application filed August 5, 19%, Serial No. 730,251. Renewed October 12, 1925.

7 '0 all who-m it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT FONAAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Schofield Barracks, in the Territory of Hawaii, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Milk-Can Openers and Sealers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in a combined milk can opener, sealer and dispenser.

The principal object of this invention is to provide means whereby an ordinary milk can may be opened so as to dis ense the contents therefrom and later scale so as to prevent contamination of the contents.

Another object is to rovide means whereby the contents may e dispensed without coming into contact with the outside of the can.

A still further object of this invention is to produce a device of this character which is extremely simple and therefore cheap to manufacture.

Another object is to provide a puncturing medium which will also serve to retain the device upon the can.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent durmg the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings formin a part of this specification and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 1s a top plan view of a can having my device applied thereto.

gigure 2 is a side elevation of my device an Figure 3 is a. vertical cross section of my device attached to a can.

Applicant is aware of the fact that many forms of can openers have been devised for the purpose of punching holes in the top of cans, but these openers, in most instances, provided no means forsealingthe can after it had been opened and further permitted the contents of the can to flow over the outside thereof which was unsanitary and also unsightly.

I have, therefore, devised means for opening the can and also dispensing the same without permitting the contents to come into contact with the outside of the can.

In the accompanying drawings wherein provided with an upturned finger piece 16 to facilitate the movement of the same, as will be later seen. At 17 I have shown a lip formed upon the casting 7, which lip serves the purpose of a spout and also acts as a stop for the cover plate when the same is rotated in a counter clock-wise direction, thus bringing the ends of the cover plate into such a position that they will cover the ends of the tubes 8 and 9.

In employing my device, the same is pressed upon the top of the can so that the points 11 and 12 pierce the can with a result that ,a portion of the top of the same is cut and bent as shown at 18 and 19. These cut portions bear against the tubes and serve to maintain the device, as a whole, upon the top of the can until the same is forcibly removed. After the device has been placed upon the can, by manipulating the finger piece 16 the cover plate 13 may be moved to the position shown in Figure 1, after which the contents of'the can may be dispensed through the tube 9 from which it will flow over the lip 17. The pi e 8 will act as a vent, the purpose of whic is wellknown.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a very simple device, which will accomplish all of the objects above set forth.

It is to be understood that the form of my loll casting, tubes secured to said casting, said tubes having pointed ends and being capable of piercing t e top of a can a cover plate secured to said castin and a apted to overlie said tubes, means or rotating said cover plate for the purpose of exposing the ends of said tubes, said means consisting of a finger-piece formed integral with sai plate, and a lip formed on said casting and ads. ted to extend beyond the outer margin of t e can being operated upon and inclined to upwardly so as to lie in a lane above the opening of the tubes secure thereto.

In testimony whereof I aflixv m si ture.

ALBERT ONQKS.

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