Improvements in Oil Cans.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 24th Nov., 1896-Accepted. 2nd Jan.. 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Oil Cans.
I SAMUEL GREEN, Park View, Lees Road, Mossley, near Manchester,
Cotton Mill Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in oil can spouts, with the object of
governing the flow of oil at rates suited to the various purposes for which oil cans
are used and by a method which removes the facility for tampering with oil cans
by widening the spouts, or cutting the ends off to increase the flow of oil, a common
practice resulting in great waste of oil, uncleanliness, and damage to oil cans.
The oil can spouts are made in two parts, the trunk and the tip, the latter about
1 inches long and the two parts connected securely by a nipple of brass or other
suitable material in the mauner shewn in accompanying drawings. A the tip, N the
nipple B the trunk of oil can spout.
The nipples for this purpose are bored through with drills of standard, numbered
sizes according to the flow of oil required for different purposes.
Dated this and dem 1800
SAMUEL GREEN.
1 SAMUEL GREEN of Park View, Lees Road, Mossley near Manchester,
Cotton Mill 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 improvements in oil can spouts, with the object of
governing and limiting the flow of oil at rates suited to the various purposes for
which oil cans are used, and by a method which removes the facility for tampering
with oil cans by widening the spouts or cutting the ends off to increase the flow of
oil; a common practice resulting in great waste of oil, uncleanliness and damage to
oil cans.
The oil can spouts are made in two parts, the trunk and the tip, the latter about
one and a half inches long, and the two said parts connected securely by a nipple
of brass or other suitable material in manner shewn in the drawings left with
Provisional Specification, in which Fig. 1 represents an oil can spout and Fig. 2 the
same in section; A representing the tip, N the nipple and B the trunk.
The nipples for this purpose are bored through with drills of standard, numbered
sizes or guages according to the rates of flow of oil required for different purposes.
The standard, numbered sizes of bores to be indicated on the middle or exposed
portion of the nipples when spouts, are completed, either by rings, figures or
letters.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manuer the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
The adoption of nipples bored to standard numbered sizes or guages intersecting
oil can spouts for the purpose of governing and limiting the rate of flow of oil, the
sizes or guages to which the nipples are bored to be indicated in the middle
or exposed part of the nipples when the oil can spouts are completed, either by
rings, figures or letters.
Dated this 20th day of November 1900
SAMUEL GREEN.