Dixie Can sealer

[Shardoucet]

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 

[winffup]

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

[KC]

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  Just plus in the number of the patent and it will bring up the diagrams and information.

[Shardoucet]

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.