On November 30, 1858, John Landis Mason received a U.S. Patent No. 22186 on a Glass Jar

There were hundreds of designs for fruit jars, but Mason’s jar was the most well-known, so much so that it became the generic name for canning jars. Mason continued to improve the design patenting (U.S. Patent No. 100306) a jar with an improved seal on March 1, 1870, known as the Gem Jar: