An Improved Oil-can.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1894
Complete Spécification Left, 28 h Dec., 1894-Accepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL DEECIFICATION.
An Improved Oil-can.
I, DAVID PORTER, of Clifton Terrace, in the City of Wellington, Colony of
New Zealand, Surveyor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to oil-cans, its object being to provide means for leading
any oil running down the outside of the spout of the can back to the interior of the
can, thus preventing waste and keeping clean that part of the can wbich is held in
the hand.
An oil-can made according to this invention is illustrated in vertical section in the
accompanying drawing.
The body a is of the ordinary kind; the spout a¹ being screwed into the neck of
the body a in the usual manner. Around the lower part of the spout a' there is a
gutter c, by preference of the shape shown; any oil running down the spout being
received in this gutter. From a small hole d in the spout near the bottom of the
gutter, a pipe p leads to the bottom of the can. Through this pipe, the oil collected
in the gutter e passes into the can; the pipe serving, moreover, when the can is in
use, to admit air to the can above the oil, thereby allowing a constant flow of oil to
take place.
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G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Chartered Patent Agent.
I, DAVID PORTER, of Clifton Terrace, in the City of Wellington, Colony of
New Zealand, Surveyor, 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 :—
My invention relates to oil-cans, its object being to provide means for leading any
oil running down the outside of the spout of the can back to the interior of the can,
thus preventing waste and keeping clean that part of the can which is held
in the band.
An oil-can made according to this invention is illustrated in vertical section in
the drawing which accompanied the Provisional Specification forming part of the
present application for Letters Patent.
The body or reservoir a is of the ordinary kind; the spout a¹ being screwed into
the neck of the body a in the usual manner. Around the lower part of the spout a¹
there is a gutter c, by preference of the shape shown; any oil running down the
spout being received in this gutter. From a small hole d in the spout near the
bottom of the gutter, a pipe p leads to the bottom of the reservoir. Through this.
pipe, the oil collected in the gutter c passes into the cau; the pipe serving,
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page_text: moreover, when the can is in use, to admit air to the can above the oil, thus
allowing a constant flow of oil to take place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :-
1. An oil-can provided with means for collecting and returning to the reservoir
any oil that may flow down the exterior of the spout, substantially as described
with reference to the accompanying drawing.
2. In an oil-can having a reservoir a and a delivery spout a¹, the employment of
a gutter c in conjunction with a return pipe p, substantially as and for the purpose
set forth.
DaLed this 27th day of December 1894.
For the Applicant,
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Chartered Patent Agent.