![]() Cobb preserving company finally perfects the sanitary can. Sardines first packed in cans.ġ876 – Hume “floater” introduced to float solder onto ends of can s as they roll along “the line”.ġ877 – The simplified “side seamer” for cans appears.ġ880 – 1890Automatic can making machinery debuts.ġ894 – Ams machine company begins manufacturing locked double seam cans.ġ989 – George W. Wilson (Chicago) develop the tapered can for canning corned beef. Osterhoudt patented the tin can with a key opener.ġ870 – William Lyman patents a better can opener (rotating wheel, which cuts along the top rim of the can).Hinged lid tin cans are introduced.ġ875 – Arthur A. Lang (Maine) is granted a patent for sealing tin cans by casting or dropping bar solder in measured drops on can ends. Warner (Waterbury, Connecticut) patents the first can opener! This was used heavily by the US military during the civil war!ġ866 – E.M. Gail Borden is granted a patent on canned condensed milk.ġ858 – Ezra J. 1850-1900ġ856 – Henry Bessmer (England) discovers first (later on William Kelley, America, separately also discovers) the process of converting cast iron into steel. Production now improves from 5 or 6 cans per hour, to 50-60 per hour. The patent includes pottery, glass and tinplated iron for use as food container.ġ812 – Thomas Kensett (England) starts a small plant in NY: canning oysters, meats, fruits and vegtables in hermetically sealed containers.ġ813 – John Hall and Bryan Dorkin opened the first commercial canning factory in Englandġ818 – Peter Durand introduces his tinplated iron can in Americaġ819 – Thomas Kensett and Ezra Gagett start selling their products in canned tinplate cans.ġ825 – Kensett receives an American patent for tinplated cans.ġ830 – Huntly and Palmer (England) start selling biscuits and cakes in decorated cans.ġ846 – Henry Evans uses dies to increase production speeds tenfold.ġ847 – Allan Taylor, patents a machine for stamping cylindrical can ends.ġ849 – Henry Evans is granted the patent for the pendulum press, which – when combined with a die device, makes a can end in a single operation. Peter Durand (England) receives a patent from King George III. Nicolas publishes “Book for all households” which is translated and published in NY. ![]() 1700 -1850ġ795 – Napoleon offers 12,000 Franks to anyone who can devise a way of preserving food for his army & navy.ġ809 – Nicolas Appert (France) devises an idea of packing food into special “bottles”, like wine.ġ810 – Nicolas Appert (France) receives the 12,000 Frank prize from the French government after he invents the method of preserving food through sterilization. ![]() The technology around canning of foods, pet foods, paint, oil, chemicals has evolved over time to include ring pulls, stay on tabs, screw tops, recyclable, double-seamed and the testing and inspection of cans is critical to ensure the integrity of the product inside. So many of our everyday foods & beverages and goods are packaged in a can, and this has been the case for a lot longer than you might imagine.
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