AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF OIL CANS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, E. C., Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF OIL CANS."-A communication.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th May 1857.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, E.C., Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION. OF OIL CANS," (communicated to me
by a foreigner residing abroad,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in adapting to and combining with the oiler a lanip
or lantern, the object of which combination is for enabling the attendant to.
see where to apply the oil to the required part of the machinery at night, or.
where the said machinery is located in a dark place. It is more especially.
adapted for use in locomotives and steamers, for the reason, that as the man
carries in one hand both the oil and the light, the other is left free to hold on.
with, as is absolutely necessary in machinery constantly in a state of oscillation,
of the character described.
The construction consists, first, in an oil vessel, which may be of the usual
conical form, having a pouring spout and handle with filling hole upon the
side. Upon or near the top of the said case is a division plate, forming

page_text: an upper reservoir for oil; the covering to this is a screw, into which is
inserted in the usual manner one or more wick tubes, which may then be
enclosed in an appropriate shade of glass or mica, or other like transparent
substance. The lamp part may have a separate filling hole if preferred, or it
may be filled by unscrewing the tube cap.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 14th November 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, E. C.,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence 'that I; the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF OIL CANS," "(a com-
munication from a foreigner residing abroad), upon the condition (amongst
others) that 'I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
'hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
'said "Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed' in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
'to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing "heret
hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
This Invention" consists in adapting to and combining with an oil can or

page_text: flask a lamp or lantern, the object of which combination is for enabling the
attendant to see where to apply the oil to the required part of the machinery
at night, or where the said machinery is located in a dark place. It is more
especially adapted for use in locomotives and steamers, for the reason, that as
the man carries in one hand both the oil and the light, the other is left free to
hold on with, as is absolutely necessary in machinery constantly in a state of
oscillation, of the character described.
The construction consists, first, in an oil vessel, which may be of the usual
conical form, having a pouring spout and handle with filling hole upon the
side. Upon or near the top of the said case is a division plate, forming an
upper reservoir for oil; the covering to this is a screw, into which is inserted
in the usual manner one or more wick tubes, which may then be enclosed in
an appropriate shade of glass or mica, or other like transparent substance.
The lamp part may have a separate filling hole if preferred, or it may be filled
by unscrewing the tube cap.
The Drawing hereunto annexed represents a side section of such a combined
oil can and lamp; a being the body of the can, shaped as shown, or other-
wise, as may be found most convenient, having its pouring spout c, handle b,
and filling hole g, as usual. Upon the top and over the division plate is
formed the lamp body d, with wick tube and screw stopper e, as usual, over
which may be appropriately placed a shade. The back of this shade is repre-
sented as opaque, to screen the light from the face of the person using the can,
and it is allowed to emerge only forward through the transparent portion of
the screen f. In this way the rays will be thrown upon and about the spout,
consequently wherever that is pointed the spot will be illuminated, and hence
the oil may be poured upon the exact place required, and waste thus avoided.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the adaptation to
and combination with an oil can or flask of a lamp or lantern arranged in
such manner as to illuminate the object to which the oil is to be applied.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of November, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)