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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: Shardoucet on April 20, 2010, 12:28:59 pm
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Hi All,
I have this Dixie automatic can sealer that I cant find out much about other than it being from the Dixie Canner co.
Any help would be much appreciated.
http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac125/shardoucet/Dixie%20Canner/IMG_1804.jpg
http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac125/shardoucet/Dixie%20Canner/IMG_1809.jpg
:) :) :) Thanks :) :) :)
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Here's what I found out:
George Raney founded the company in 1895 in Chapel Hill, NC and expanded it across the Southern USA. By 1914, operating as the Dixie Canner Company, the company developed a farm-home canning concept – using tin cans. Continental Can Co. acquired Dixie Canner in 1928.
In 1936 Dixie Canner moved to Athens, GA where the University of Georgia Agriculture Extension Service was developing a Community Canning concept for preserving surplus vegetables, fruits, and meats. During its heyday, Dixie Canner was an integral part of this concept as a provider of the equipment.
Dixie Canner became a separate Georgia corporation in 1945. Today, Dixie continues to fill the need for low volume canning and packaging equipment for R&D and Educational Projects, Specialty Canning and Packaging operations ... Worldwide.
Plus, it looks like they still make that, I could be wrong but the model in the website looks a lot like yours.
http://www.dixiecanner.com/1030.htm
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This particular one was made after 1939.
Was for the individual who had canning needs such as a small business.
Notice the patents are held by Continental Can Company one of the largest commercial canners in the US. The other one of which I have $$$$$ stock in is Crown Cork & Seal Company. Family members have worked in this business for longer than I care to remember. (On soda cans you see 2 C's enveloping each other and a crown representing these companies.)
To get a read on the one you have look up the last 2 patents listed on your item under
http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en (http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en) Just plus in the number of the patent and it will bring up the diagrams and information.
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Thank you KC and winffup for all your help. :)
I also managed to get a hold of someone at Dixie and they told me that it was made between 1950-67 and is basically a older version of the Model 23H Seamer.