An Improved Device for Distributing Oil on Troubled Waters..
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 1st Jan., 1891-Accepted, 7th Feb., 1891
TROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Distributing Oil on Troubled Waters..
I JOHN LUMSDEN MORICE of 13 Canning Place, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Sailmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
The object of the present invention is to provide a simple cheap and thoroughly
efficient apparatus for containing and distributing oil on rough or broken water.
For this purpose I provide an apparatus or container made of canvas or woven
fabric and furnished with thimbles or connections to which can be attached
suspending or towing lines, and with a neck or opening in which can be secured a
plug of sponge, oakum, hair, or other like substance to regulate the exit of the
oil from the said container. To prevent leakage the said canvas container is
lined or saturated with a xylodine compound or encloses a bladder or other receptacle
impervious to oil.
Per pro J. T. KING,
W. B. Johnson,
Agent
COMPLETE SPÈCIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Distributing Oil on Troubled Waters.
I JOHN LUMSDEN MORICE of 13 Canning Place Liverpool in the County of
Lancaster Sailmaker 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 :-
The object of the present invention is to provide a simple cheap and thoroughly
efficient apparatus for containing and distributing oil on rough or broken water.
For this purpose I provide an apparatus or container made of canvas or woven
fabric and furnished with thimbles or connections to which can be attached
suspending or towing lines and with a neck or opening in which can be secured a
plug of sponge, oakum, hair, or other like substance to regulate the exit of the oil
from the said container. To prevent leakage the said canvas container is lined or
saturated with a xylodine compound or encloses a bladder or other receptacle
impervious to oil.
On the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a section and
Fig. 2 an elevation of my improved oil distributing device.
a is a container of woven fabric furnished with thimbles b to which suspending
and towing lines c are connected, d is a neck or opening through which the
container is filled with oil, e is a bladder used as a lining to the container a in
order to prevent oil exuding through the said container. Instead of using a
bladder the container may be made oil proof by any suitable coating. After the
container has been filled with oil the neck is tightly tied over a perforated mouth-
piece of cork or rigid material f. above which is a plug of sponge oakum hair or
like material g. is a screwed stopper for closing the aperture in the mouth-
piece f. When in use the stopper h is removed and the oil oozes gently through
the porous plug on to the water.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
claim is
The improved device for distributing oil substantially as herein set forth.
Dated the Thirty-first day of December 1890.
Per pro J. T. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.