Improved Means or Apparatus for Withdrawing, Without Waste, Liquids such as Oils or the like from Barrels or other Receptacles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 19th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means or Apparatus for Withdrawing, Without Waste,
Liquids such as Oils or the like from Barrels or other
Receptacles.
I, JOSHUA REA of Barton Street, Waterloo Dock, Liverpool in the County
of Lancaster, Oil Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
Liquids such for examples as paraffin oil, turpentine, benzoline, naphtha, or the
like, are usually withdrawn from a barrel by gravity through a tap inserted in the
lowermost part for the time being of the barrel, the liquid that usually escapes
owing to the use of a defective tap or otherwise being caught in an open vessel
in which dust and the like accumulates that renders such liquid practically value-
less. This arrangement is also very dangerous in the case of easily inflammable
liquids.
Now the object of my invention is to prevent leakage and also to collect and
return to the receptacle any overflow that may take place.
For this purpose I employ for withdrawing the liquid, a suitable lift pump which
is passed through the upper part for the time being of the receptacle, and in
conjunction therewith I use a suitable dish, tray or pan (hereinafter called a dish)
provided at its under side with a nozzle, that may advantageously be tapered, that
takes into a hole in the barrel or receptacle and through which nozzle the pump
barrel or suction tube passes. When the nozzle is of taper form the pump barrel
may be provided with a correspondingly tapered enlargement to fit the same. The
When two
dish may be provided with one or more perforated removable covers.
are used the upper one may be made of perforated metal or of coarse wire gauze,
With some classes
whilst the lower one may be made of finely woven wire gauze.
of oils or liquids the cover or one of them may be provided with a layer of suitable
material such as flaunel to serve as a filtering medium so that the overflow liquid
may be filtered before it returns to the barrel from which it was pumped. To
enable the liquid to return from the dish to the barrel, the pump may be lifted
from time to time out of the tapered nozzle of the dish, or one or more grooves
may be formed in the enlarged tapered part of the pump barrel or in the nozzle to
allow of the liquid flowing back to the receptacle without the necessity of lifting
the punip.
The spout of the pump may be made of sufficient length to enable it by partly
rotating the pump barrel, to deliver into a vessel placed on the floor and at the side
of the main receptacle, and which may be larger than could be placed between the
spout and the collecting dish. Means or apparatus of the kind herein before
described can be constructed in various forms to suit different liquids, and different
shapes of fluid receptacles. Thus for example, for withdrawing oil through the
ordinary bung hole of a barrel that is laid on its side, the dish may be provided
with feet or supports for bolding it level, and its bottom may be made slightly
inclined towards its nozzle portion.
Dated this 27th day of February 1892.
JOSHUA KEA,
By L. W., per F. B.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means or Apparatus for Withdrawing Without Waste
Liquids such as Oils or the like from Barrels or other
Receptacles.
I, JOSHUA REA, of Barton Street, Waterloo Dock, Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Oil Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
Such liquids as paraffin oil, turpentine, benzoline, naptha or the like, are usually
withdrawn from a barrel by gravity through a tap inserted in the lowermost part
for the time being, of the barrel and liquid that usually escapes owing to the use of
a defective tap or otherwise is caught in an open vessel in which dust and the like
accumulates that renders such liquid practically valueless. This arrangement is
also very dangerous in the case of easily inflammable liquids.
Now the object of my invention is to provide simple means or apparatus for
withdrawing liquids such as referred to and also to collect and return to the
receptacle any overflow that may take place, the arrangement being such inoreover
as to obviate leakage such as above mentioned.
1 employ for withdrawing the liquid, a suitable lift pump which is passed through
the upper part, for the time being, of the receptacle, and in conjunction therewith
I use a suitable dish, tray or pan (hereinafter called a dish) provided with a
depending tube or nozzle that may advantageously be tapered and which takes into
a hole in the barrel or receptacle and through which depending tube the pump
barrel or suction tube passes. When the depending tube is of tapered form the
pump barrel may for the purpose of steadying it therein, be provided with a
corresponding tapered enlargement or ferrule to fit the same. The dish may be
provided with one or more perforated removable covers. When two are used the
upper one may be made of perforated metal or of coarse wire gauze, whilst the
lower one may be made of finely woven wire gauze. With some classes of oils or
liquids the covers or one of them may be provided with a layer of suitable material
such as flannel to serve as a filtering medium so that the overflow liquid may be
filtered before it returns to the barrel from which it was pumped. To enable the
liquid to return from the dish to the barrel, the pump may be lifted from time to
time out of the depending tube or nozzle of the dish, or one or more grooves may
be formed therein or on the enlarged tapered part of the pump barrel to allow
the liquid to flow back to the receptacle without its being necessary to lift the
pump.
The spout of the pump may be of sufficient length to enable it, upon the partial
rotation of the pump barrel, to deliver into a vessel placed on the floor at the side
of the main receptacle and which may be larger than could be placed between the
spout and the collecting dish. Means or apparatus of the kind hereinbefore
described can be constructed in various forms to suit different liquids, and different
shapes of receptacles. Thus for example for withdrawing oil through the ordinary
bung hole of a barrel laying on its side, the dish may be provided with feet or
supports for holding it level, and its bottom may be made slightly inclined towards
its depending tube.
In the accompanying drawings:
:-
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of apparatus according to my invention as applied
to an ordinary petroleum barrel.
Fig. 2 is a plan or top view thereof.

page_text: Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views shewing the apparatus fitted to an ordinary
iron drum.
Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the dish.
Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation shewing my improved means or apparatus applied
to a barrel lying on its side.
Fig. 7 is a plan of same.
A is a lift pump having a spout A¹ B is a pump handle attached to an ordinary
bucket C which is provided with the usual form of valve.
The pump barrel extends to the bottom of the receptacle D from which the
liquid has to be drawn and is fitted with a foot valve E which may be of the
ordinary form. F is a shallow dish for collecting any overflow and returning it
to the receptacle. When liquid is to be withdrawn from a barrel standing on
end, the dish F is preferably made circular in plan and of somewhat less diameter
than that of the head of the barrel D as shewn in Fig. 1, but it may be rectangular
or of other convenient shape when it is to be employed for drawing liquids from the
bung hole of a barrel as shewn in Figs. 6 and 7. The bottom of the dish F
is provided with a number of projecting ribs F1 F1 on which the vessel to be filled
stands, channels beneath being thus formed for passage of the overflow. The
dish F is provided with a slightly tapered depending tube or nozzle G that enters a
hole in the barrel or other receptacle D from which the liquid is to be drawn.
Through this depending tube G the pump barrel A passes and is provided with a
corresponding tapered encircling ferrule H that steadies the pump and forms a
valve or plug which when lifted out of the depending tube with the pump A. allows
the accumulated overflow to run back into the receptacle from which it has been
withdrawn the spout A' of the pump is of sufficient length to enable it upon
the partial rotation of the pump barrel into the position indicated by the dotted.
lines in Fig. 1 to deliver into a vessel J (that is too large to stand beneath the
spout, upon the receptacle) and which can be placed on the floor by the side of the
said receptacle D. The encircling ferrule H may be of wood or other suitable
material and in some cases he adjustable on the pump barrel to suit various depths
or sizes of receptacles; it can be secured in any convenient way such as by a screw
clip or washers not shewn fitted tightly onto the pump barrel.
For withdrawing oil from iron druns which are provided with charging openings
or nozzles that project somewhat above the rims thereof, the depending tube of the
dish is made somewhat longer than usual and projecting pieces or feet K. K
are secured to the underside of the dish F so that they stand on the flat end cover
of the drum as shewn in Fig. 3.
It will be understood that any overdrawn or spilt liquid falling into the dish will
be retained therein until the pump A. with its attached ferrule is slightly lifted,
when it will return to the receptacle from which it has been withdrawn without
there being any waste.
When apparatus according to this invention is designed to withdraw liquid
through the bung hole of a barrel laying on its side as shewn in Figs. 6 aud 7, the
dish F is preferably made rectangular in plan and provided with two feet or
supports L that are placed at the corners of the dish which are furthest from the
depending tube, and rest on the barrel. The feet or supports L are pointed at
their lower ends and are provided with adjusting screw nuts L' and winged locking
nuts L2 as shewn in Fig. 6. by which means the dish may be made to stand firmly
upon barrels of various shapes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein described means or apparatus for withdrawing liquid without waste
such as oil from a barrel or other receptacle comprising a removable dish provided
with a depending tube adapted to enter a hole in the barrel or other receptacle, and
a removable lift pump, the barrel of which is arranged to extend through the said

page_text: depending tube and is provided with means for steadying it in the said tube
substantially as described and shewn for the purpose specified.
Dated this 19th day of November 1892.
JOSHUA REA,
By L. W., per F. B.