Kilner jar The company was forced to close down to convert to gas furnaces and struggled along for a 66 years despite 3,000 people losing their jobs. In 1937, there was a bankruptcy sale, in which the patent rights to the "Kilner Jar" were sold to the United Glass Bottle company along with the rights to the very similar "Mason" jar that had also been made by Kilner. In 2003, The Rayware Group purchased the design, patent and trademark of the original Kilner jar and continues to produce them today in China. A more detailed history of the companies by the Society
Kevin Kilner Kevin Kilner Kevin Kilner (born May 3, 1958) is an American television and film actor. Kilner was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Dorothea, a kindergarten teacher, and Edward Kilner, who worked in advertising sales and insurance. He made his first television appearance on an episode of "The Cosby Show" in 1989. He is perhaps best known for playing the protagonist in the first season of "", and Officer Dean in The Stoned Age. In 1995-96, Kilner starred in "Almost Perfect" as the romantic interest of Nancy Travis, who played a screenwriter, but Kilner was written out of the