US1344072A - Stein - Google Patents

Description

A. G. WIEDMANN.

STEIN.

APPLICATION FILED OCT- 7, 1914.

1,344,072. PatentedJune22,1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR G. WIEDMANN, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

STEIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22,1920.

Application filed October 7, 1914. Serial No. 865,410.

To allwhomitmc concern: 1

Be it known t at I ARTHUR Gr. -Wrno- MANN, a citizen of'the United States, residing in Kansas Cit in the county of Jackson and State of issouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Steins, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates in general to steins and has for its principal object the provision of a cheap and attractive stein which may be used for the packaging and selling of cigars, the purpose being to pack the cigars in the stein and to ive to each purchaser of a full package 0 cigars the stein in which the cigars are contained.

It is therefore a principal object of this invention to construct a stein of cheap ma terials so put together as to give an imitation of earthenware or crockery so that the stein may be used for the drinking of beer and the like or to form an attractive ornament in a dining room or den..

A principal object of this invention is to i provide a stein which while having all of the appearanceof a well designed and attractive earthen-ware article, will be made largely of tin or other appropriate sheet metal.

A further object of the inventionis the construction of such an article ofrelatively frail material which will be strong and durable and not likely to be damaged with ordinary handling and use.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent as it is better understood from the following description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawing illustrating a preferred embodiment thereof.

Referring to the drawing,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stein adapted for the packaging of cigars and embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is a central, transverse, vertical section of the same.

The stein embodying my invention and shown on the drawing consists of the sheet drical form and having its longitudinal edges secured together throughout their length at 7 The bottom is secured in place substantially hidden by the handle.

in any suitable fashion, being shown in the present instance as connected to the cylindrical side wall by the interlocking seam 8. The handle 5 extends from the bottom of the stein substantially to the top and is interlockingly connected at 9 between the bottom and the adjacent edge of its cylindrical side 3. At the top a pair of lips 10 are provided which are inserted through suitable apertures in the side wall and bent down as shown in Fig. 2. The handle 5 is given an attractive curve and is located so that the seam 7 between the adjacent longitudinal edges of the cylindrical side wall is The upper portion of the handle is disposed substantially horizontally and is cut away centrally atll'to provide a pair of lips 12 which'are bent upwardly into substantial parallelism, and these lipsare provided with alined apertures 13 for the receipt of a pivot pin lwh-ich, as will be later explained, pivotally connects the cover to the handle. The upper edge of the side wall is bent outwardly and back upon itself to provide a false wire head or edge 15 which stiifens the structure and provides a surface against which the cover 6 may be closed.

The cover 6 is curved throughout its central part spherically and is bent first upwardly at 16 and thence downwardly at 17 to provide a rest and curved edge adapted to engage over the false wire or head edge 15 of the side wall. The cover is also provided with a projection 18 extending rearwardly and outwardly above the handle and the side edges 19 of this projection are bent downwardly into substantial parallelism and fit between the upwardly extending lips 12 of the handle. The pivot pin 14 passes through suitable apertures in these wings to pivotally connect the cover in place. The

projection 18 extends rearwardly? of the the effect desired. Earthen-ware itself or a fine cement may be used. Indeed numerous substances are believed to be available for this purpose. The effect of an earthen ware or ceramic articleis further produced by embossing the design, as seen at 22 in Fig.

2, the embossing with the surfacing creatmg the impression on the eye of a molded earthen-ware article.

' It will be obvious that a stein constructed as described will bestrong and durable by reason ofthe efficient connections between the various parts, and by reason also of the diameter or spherical shape given the cover, the convexity of the outer surface reducing materially the danger of denting. Where the cover is opened by pressing upon the thumb-piece 20, this thumb-piece may pass downwardly through the aperture 11 to permit the cover to fall completely back out of the way of the person desiring to drink from the stein. The diameter of the article described being merely a preferred embodiment thereof.

I claim: a 1. A package for cigars and other purposes, comprising a sheet metal body having 'a beaded cylindrical edge around its mouth;

handle united withthe body; and a hinge pin pivotally connecting said thumb piece with the handle. y a

'2. A package for cigars and other purposes, comprising a sheet metal body; a sheetmetal outstanding handle united with said body and having at its sides integral upstanding lips 'formed by cutting out and bending up a middle portion of the handle; a cover fittingathe mouth of said body and formed with .an outstandingthumb piece extending overgand depressible into the out out part of the handleanduformed with de pending sideedges parallel with said lips of thehandle; and "a pivot'pin connecting said lips with sai'dside edges of the thumblece. a p ARTHUR GQWVIEDMANN.

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