Improvements in Lubricating Cans and other Cans or Containers for Oil and other Liquids.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lubricating Cans and other Cans or Containers for
Oil and other Liquids.
I, JAMES HALLIDAY of 21 Alder Street Seaforth in the County of Lancaster,
Joiner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a lubricator or container for oil or other liquids
which, while having all the advantages of the ordinary apparatus, will avoid the
defect so objected to in the latter that they are liable to leak when shaken or upset
and thus waste the oil.
In carrying my invention into effect, the plan I prefer is to provide a suitable
can or container in which the oil is placed. The mouth of this can is provided with
a valve seating and a valve of cork, wood or other suitable material. This valve
is operated by means of a push knob or button which is preferably located in the
base of the apparatus and which by means of a system of levers and rods opens the
valve when this button is depressed or closes by means of a spring when the button
is released. Various means may be adopted for preventing any leakage of oil at
the point where the push rod, to which the button is attached, passes into the can.
In one arrangement I provide a tube secured to the can through which the push
rod passes.
An outer sleeve (to which the push rod is attached and which
surrounds the tube) operates the system of rods which control the valve and forms
a stuffing box which prevents any possible escape of oil. It may be partly filled
with mercury or any other suitable material and is found to entirely prevent any
escape of oil, and any amount of vibration or upsetting the can will not enable the
oil to escape through the nozzle until the button is depressed.
Dated this 14th day of February 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Lubricating Cans and other Cans or Containers for
Oil and other Liquids.
I, JAMES HALLIDAY of 21 Alder Street, Seaforth in the County of Lancaster,
Joiner, 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 has for its object a lubricator or container for oil or other liquids
which, while having all the advantages of the ordinary apparatus, will avoid the
defect so objected to in the latter that they are liable to leak when shaken or upset
or waste the liquid by evaporation.
I carry out my invention as follows, reference being had to the drawings, which
show my invention as applied to a holder or container for oil or other liquids.
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation; and
Figure 2 a horizontal section on the line 1-2 of Figure 1.

page_text: In these figures, A. is the oil can or container in which the oil is placed. The
mouth or nozzle A¹ of this can is provided with a valve seating B and a valve C
of cork, wood or other suitable material. This valve C is operated by means of a
push knob or button D, preferably located in the base of the apparatus, and by
means of a system of levers E and rods F and G the valve C is opened when this
button D is depressed, or closed by a spring H when the button D is released..
Various means may be adopted for preventing any leakage of oil at the point
where the push rod G (to which the button D is attached) passes into the can A.
In the arrangement shown, I provide a stuffing-box I through which the push
rod G and its outer sleeve J pass. This stuffing box is packed at K with a
compound of mercury and tin or other suitable amalgam. L is a packing of cork
applied at each side of the amalgam packing, this latter packing being applied or
not as desired.
It will be seen that the push rod G and its sleeve J operate the system of rods
and levers which control the valve C, the packing of amalgam preventing any
possible escape of oil or liquid, and furthermore the oil or liquid cannot escape
through the nozzle by evaporation or leakage, the valve C completely closing the
nozzle. To decant the liquid, however, all that is necessary is to depress the
button, and pour out the contents.
I have described my invention as applied to containers or holders for oil or other
liquid, but it will be obvious that it may be applied (inter alia) to oil cans for
lubricating purposes, in which case the container and nozzle are made of a somewhat
different shape. Furthermore the nozzle might be made elongated for convenience
in oiling sewing machines, bicycles or the like. These alterations are so obvious
that they do not need any further description.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is-
1. The improvement in cans or containers for oil and other liquids, whereby they
are not liable to leak when shaken or upset or waste the contents by evaporation,
this result being effected by providing an airtight can or container for the liquid, a
valve such as C at one end of the container, a push knob or button for opening or
closing the valve, an arrangement of levers and rods for coupling the push knob
with the valve and means for preventing any leakage of liquid at the point where
the push rod passes into the can, substantially as described.
2. In cans or containers for oil, the arrangement herein described for preventing
leakage of oil at the point where the push rod enters the can, namely, passing the
said rod through a stuffing-box packed with a compound of mercury and tin or other
suitable amalgam and with or without a packing of cork or like material.
3. The combined arrangement or combination of parts forming my improved can
or container for oil and other liquids, substantially as and for the purposes
described and especially the arrangement of valve C, stuffing box I, and levers and
rods E F G and J.
LAN
Novembe 109.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents.