Improvements in Oil Cans.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Oil Cans.
I, JIM WAINWRIGHT KAYE, of the Firm of Joseph Kaye and Sons Limited,
South Accommodation Road, Leeds, in the County of York, Works Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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and has for its
This invention relates to certain improvements in oil cans
object the prevention of waste and inconvenience arising from the use of cans
as hitherto constructed.
My improvement has especial relation to that class of oil can known as "bottle
shaped" with the spout connected to the top, hitherto such cans have been provided
with an air tube passing from near the bottom of the can out to the top. In the
act of oiling the machinery the can is tilted in order to allow of the oil running
out of the spout. The air passing down the tube through the top or cover of
the can to the underside of the oil, or rather when in such position, to the top side
of the oil facilitates displacement. When returning the can to its unused position
the air forces the oil up the tube to the outside of the can that is, on to the top
of the can, thus occasioning waste of oil and inconvenience.
In order to avoid such waste and inconvenience I form a chamber by means of
a partition close to the top of the can to which the air tube is attached, the space,
between the partition and the top of the can forms a chamber which acts as a
sort of air cushion and prevents the oil from being forced, as above described,
out at the top. The top of the can has a small hole for the admission of air into
the chamber from which it passes through the tube when the can is in use.
Dated this 5th day of June 1897.
I, JIM WAINWRIGHT KAYE, of the Firm of Joseph Kaye and Sons Limited,
South Accommodation Road, Leeds, in the County of York, Works Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in oil cans, and has for its
object, the prevention of waste and inconvenience arising from the use of cans
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My improvement has special relation to that class of oil can known as bottle
shaped" with a spout connected to the top. Hitherto such cans have been pro-
vided with an air tube secured to the top of the can, the tube extending to near
the bottom, so that when the can is tilted in order to allow of the oil running
out of the spout, 'air passes through the said tube into the can, thereby facilitating
the displacement of oil.
When returning the can to its unused or normal position, some of the oil is
forced up the before mentioned tube to the outside of the can, that is on to the top
of the can, thus occasioning waste of oil and inconvenience.
In order to explain the manner in which such waste and inconvenience is
avoided by my improvement, I will describe the invention by making reference
to the accompanying sheet of. drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents an elevation
of a "bottle shaped" oil can shown partly in section, and
Fig. 2 is a plan of the top of the can with the spout removed.
The transverse section of the oil can body A may be circular as shown by the
plan of top by Fig. 2, or of any other convenient shape. To the upper portion
of the can body I secure a dished cover plate B provided with a threaded ferrule
for the reception of the threaded end of the spout C and below the dished cover
plate B a chamber D is formed by securing a partition plate E in a manner
that there is no opening between the chamber 1) and the interior of the can
body A except through the tube G which is attached to the partition plate E,
and is of such length as to extent nearly to the bottom of the can A. Through
the dished cover plate B. and by preference diametrically opposite to the before
mentioned tube G is a small opening H for admitting air to the chamber D and
into the oil can, when the latter is inverted for the purpose of oiling.
On returning the oil can to its normal or unused position, the air in the
chamber I forms a cushion, preventing the oil being forced up the tube G and
ejected on the top of the oil can, as is the case with cans constructed in the manner
as hitherto; thus by my improvement, the inconvenience and waste caused by
the leakage of oil through the tube G when fixed to communicate with the outside
as hitherto, is obviated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
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An oil can of the character described provided with a chamber D having
tube G communicating with the interior of the can and an opening H with the
exterior, all arranged substantially in the manner and for the purpose as herein-
before set forth.
Dated this 4th day of March 1898.
JOHN WAUGH,
Sunbridge Chambers, Bradford, Agent for Applicant.