Star Can Opener Co. v. Owen Dyneto Co.

HOUGH, Circuit Judge.

This can opener is a means of getting at the contents of the usual tin can, commonly containing articles of food, and commonly eylindrically formed of a sheet of tinned metal soldered at the- line of juncture and terminating at top and bottom in a “flange,” viz. the meeting of the bottom or top and the cylindrical wall of the can. The opener is a manually operated tool, which grasps the flange of the can and provides means, while the can is thus firmly held, to apply the cutting edge of a circular disc, also manually actuated just below the flange and sever the side…