Cover for a bung-type barrel or drum
OwnerBernd Budenbenderinventor
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Abstract
A drum cover has a short wall portion received in the drum and connected at its outer edge to an edge of the drum body. The cover is provided with two openings or lands which are thrust out of the plane of the cover disk, the lands annularly surrounding the filling openings and lying in planes normal to the drum axis to facilitate connection of pipe stubs or the like thereto, e.g. by welding.
Claims20
In a bung-type drum having a generally cylindrical body having opposite ends, a bottom closing a lower end of said body, and a top cover closing an upper end of said body, said cover fitting into said body and having a short wall portion surrounding a cover disk lying transverse to an axis of the body and recessed within said body, said short wall portion lying along an inner surface of said body and having a rim secured to said body at said upper end thereof, said cover disk being formed with at least one filling opening having a bounding edge connectable to a fitting of a closure member, the improvement wherein:
- said cover disk is provided with two filling openings;
- each of said filling openings is formed in a generally flat land and is surrounded by an annular zone of the respective land;
- each of said lands is thrust out of a plane normal to said axis;
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- at least one of said lands with at least one of said openings formed therein projects above a remainder of said cover disk.
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