Improvements in and relating to Drums and other Liquid Containers.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Drums and other Liquid Containers.
I, LEO WHITE, of 66, Raglan Road, Smethwick, in the County of Warwick,
Clerk, 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 Ly
the following statement..
This invention relates to improvements in and connected with drums and
other liquid containers and has for its objects the construction of a drun or
container suitable for use to receive oil and other liquids and also suitable for
readily drawing off the liquid from the said contamer and also suitable for pro-
tecting the drawing-off cock from injury during transit.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings
the manner in which my invention is constructed and used.
Figure 1 represents an elevation of the improved drum or
thereof being in section.
container part
Figure 2 represents a sectional plan of Figure 1 on the line A, B
In carrying out my invention I provide a drum or container a which is shewn
of circulai transverse section but which may be of any polygonal or other suit;
able transverse section, I next provide the vertical partition as shewn in
elevation at Figure 1 and in plan at Figure 2, the partition is secured to the
inside of the drum extending below the bottom hand forming an oil-tight
pocket or recess, in front of the recess an opening is formed in the drum
shell leading into the recess c and such opening is provided with an hinged
door or lid d, the door when opened would be in the position shewn in dotted
lines at Figures 1 and 2.
I next provide an outlet cock on tape and secure such tap to the partition d
which is pierced to receive the back end of tap. the tap e carries a socket f,
I next provide the outlet pipe y on the root-end of which is formed a plug
which takes into the socket f of tap e thus forming a hinge-joint, the outlet
pipe g being Jointed to radiate vertically as clearly shewn at Figure 1
I next provide the bottom of drum or container and secure such bottom
within the drum in a slanting direction as shewn, thereby providing means for
draining all the oil towards the tap e.
I provide any suitable bolt or equivalent fastenment as a means of securing
the door: The body of the container at its face is sunk round the door passage
so that the door when closed with be flush with the outer surface of drum or
container
Any suitable plug is provided at top of drum for convenience of filling: I
also provide any suitable handle on the top for convenience of moving the
container.
In using my improved drum or container the plug of tape would be turned
30 as to close the passage m, the pipe g would be radiated into the vertical
position as shewn in full lines at Figure 1 and the door d then closed and fastened,
the drum a would then be filled with oil or other liquid and could be conveniently
handled and moved from place to place; when the drum was stored in any con-

page_text: venient position the oil or other liquid would be withdrawn at intervals as may
be required in the following manner
The door would be moved on its hinges as shewn in dotted lines and the
outlet pipe would then be radiated on its plug end within the socket f and
lowered into position shewn in dotted lines at Figures 1 and 2.
The plug of tape would then be turned so as to present the passage in the
plug to the passage m in the tape, oil or other liquid would then flow from the
drum or contamer out at the end n of pipe g; when the required amount had
been withdrawn, the pipe would be radiated back into the normal unused
vertical position as shewn in full lines at Figures 1 and 2, and it will be apparent
that the film of oil on the internal surface of the pipe g would not drain off at
the point n but would drain inwards towards the plug f
I am aware that an oil-drum or container has been made with a recess clear
under the whole of the bottom of such drum and that such recess is provided
with a moving outlet tap but such moving outlet tap radiating in an horizontal
plane discharging the film of oil into the recess after each discharge of on! tron
the container through such tap, and such old method of making an oil drum
and connecting a tap to such oil drum I do not claim as my invention as the
novelty of my invention consists essentially in providing a vertical pocket with
which is secured an outlet tap the discharging arm of which radiates into a
vertical position the vertical pocket taking from the drum but a very small
portion of its internal oil containing area.
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 I
claim is:
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1st. The construction of drums or liquid chambers with a pocket c situated
vertically within the drum or container.
2nd The connecting to and within the vertical pockets of a drum or liquid
container of an outlet tap carrying an outlet pipe 9 which radiates in a vertical
plane as illustrated and described in relation to Figures 1 and 2.
3rd In the construction of drums or liquid containers as. herein described the
connection of the bottom paith in an angular direction for the purpose of drain-
ing the oil on such bottom h through the outlet passage m of the outlet tap e as
illustrated and described,
Dated this 8th day of February 1899.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Agent for the Applicant