An Improved Lubricating Feeder.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Nov., 1892-Accepted, 21st Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Lubricating Feeder.
FREDERICK CHARLES Box 10 Narrow Quay Bristol and NATHANIEL PETER
MARTIN 7 Narrow Quay Bristol Mast Spar & Block Makers do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The invention consists of an oil can or feeder for oiling machinery which has a
chamber attached forming a lamp by which the oiler is enabled to effectively oil all
intricate parts of the machinery in dark places.
FRED. C. BOX,
10, Narrow Quay, Bristol.
NATHANIEL PETER MARTIN,
7, Narrow Quay, Bristol.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Lubricating Feeder.
We, FREDERICK CHARLES Box of 10 Narrow Quay, Bristol, and NATHANIEL
PETER MARTIN, of 7 Narrow Quay, Bristol, Mast, Spar and Block Makers, 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 consists in the combination of a lamp with an oil-can such as is
employed in lubricating machinery.
By the light afforded by the lamp, a person using the can is guided in applying
the lubricant in places otherwise dark or partially so. Hence the appliance serves
to ensure the application of the lubricant to the proper place or part and thereby
prevents waste of lubricant.
A convenient position for the lamp is upon the spout of the oil-can, the chamber
for the spirit or oil or other illuminant being situated towards the butt or rear end
of the spout, and the wick being conducted forward in a tube towards the nose or
outer extremity of the spout so that the lamp flame is advantageously located for
the function it is designed to fulfil, namely to shed light upon the point of
application of the lubricant.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings,
Fig. 1 represents, in side elevation, and Fig. 2 in plan, an oil-can a furnished
with a fixed lamp in accordance with this invention.
The chamber 6 for the lamp-oil, spirit or other suitable liquid illuminant, is
situated towards the rear or butt end of the spout c and is fitted with a plug d
closing the aperture by which the illuminant is supplied to it. The wick is
conducted from the chamber 6 forward in the tube e, supported on the spout c, to a
suitable point, and is regulated by a toothed pinion, or the equivalent thereof,
actuated through the button or knob and spindle g.
The shape of the can for the lubricant may vary, as also may the position of the
chamber containing the illuminant for the lamp.
It will be clear that when the lamp is lit, it affords a means of guiding the user
of the oil-can in applying the lubricant to places or parts otherwise more or less
difficult to see through absence of sufficient light.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The combination with a can such as a (or other like vessel) for feeding oil or
other like lubricant to machinery (or to parts or places for the lubrication thereof),
of a spirit or oil lamp incorporated with such can or vessel and so situated as to
afford light from the ignited wick to guide the user of the can or vessel in applying
the lubricant, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 31st day of October 1892
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Agent.