Improvements in Cans for Holding Oils, Paraffin, Spirits, Paints, and other Fluids.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 15th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cans for Holding Oils, Paraffin, Spirits, Paints,
and other Fluids.
THOMAS EDWARD BLADON Tinplate Worker 46 Northwood Street Birmingham
FRANCIS ROBERT BAKER Mechanical Engineer 2 Wellington Road Harborne
Staffordshire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention, is to make a can for holding oil, parrafin, and such
like fluids, with a nozzle or stopper to same, that can be readily opened, & closed at
will, without having an independent part, such as a cork, screw, or loose stopper,
and which also denotes, by means of the lip, or spout affixed thereon, when the
mouth is opened, or closed. In order to do this, we make first 2 perfectly fitting
metal tubes one inside the other, about an inch & a half in length. These we
perforate through their sides, a little less than halfway round.
We now fix a cup
with a lip on, to the top of the interior tube, the lip being placed exactly over the
opening in the sides of the said tubes and we now complete the article, by fixing a
stop on the tubes, to prevent their travelling around each other too far. The action
is as follows On the cup, carrying the lip, being partialy revolved, the inner tube is
revolved also, inside the exterior one, and the hole in its side consequently passes
away, and causes the solid side of the tube, to cover the perforation in the outer
tube. The lip being turned away from its proper position, with regard to the
handle, shews the user the mouth is closed, but on reversing the lip round to its
proper position to the handle for pouring, the holes in the tubes again meet, & open
& the fluid will run out.
Dated this 13th day of March 1893
THOMAS EDWARD BLADON.
FRANCIS ROBERT BAKER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cans for Holding Oils, Paraffin, Spirits, Paints,
and other Fluids.
We, THOMAS EDWARD BLADON Tinplate Worker 46 Northwood Street
Birmingham and FRANCIS ROBERT BAKER, Mechanical Engineer, 2 Wellington
Road Harborne, Staffordshire, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention for "Improvements in Cans for Holding Oils, Paraffin, Spirits,
Paints, and other Fluids," consists substantially in the arrangement of parts to be
hereinafter described. Our aim and object being to simplify the means of outlet
of the contents, by dispensing with an independent or detachable part, such as the
cork, screw, or stopper, of the kind hitherto employed, and for more efficiently
enclosing the contents.
And in order that this our said invention, may be more fully understood, we
shall now proceed more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose we
shall refer to the several figures on the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed the
same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts throughout all the figures.
Fig. 1 is a view in elevation, showing our "Improvements in Cans for Holding
Oils, Paraffin, Spirits, Paints, and other Fluids."

page_text: Fig. 2 is also a view of same in elevation.
Fig. 3 is a view in plan of same.
a is the can or container of oil, or other fluids (and of any configuration to which
our invention is applicable. is the cup provided with the lip c, c¹ being the
outlet, d and e, are tubes, one closely fitting inside the other, and each tube having
an aperture in their sides correspondingly, these tubes we designate the inner and
outer tubes, the inner tube e we permanently secure to the cup b at b', while the
outer tube d, is permanently secured to the nozzle cap f, and this is securely
connected to the can or vessel a, and this admits of the rotation wholly or partly
of e and d, effected by the control or motion given to b. is the handle.
The outflow may be controlled as desired by the turning of b, partially, as the
inner tube e, is then only partially moved and the aperture partly opened, but when
the full outflow is required it is rotated until the projecting stop pin h engages the
catch i. When the outflow is completed the action of bis reversed, until h, engages
a catch i, on the opposite side, and the contents are hermetically sealed.
In Fig. 1 we show the cup b, and its lip c, in position, and the apertures in d
and e open, to the entire outflow. In Fig. 2 we show the motion reversed, and the
outflow cut off, and Fig. 3 which is a plan view of Fig. 2, shows the position of b
and a changed.
We would observe in conclusion that we do not limit ourselves to the precise
details as shown on the accompanying sheet of drawings, as we may vary or modify
the same, without departing from the principle of our invention.
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 :-
1. In "Improvements in Cans for Holding Oils, Paraffin, Spirits, Paints, and
other Fluids"; the combination of a cup (with lip) to which is connected a tube
(inner tube) working in a second tube (outer tube) which is connected to the nozzle
cap, cach said tube being provided with apertures, and stop pin, and catch,
substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and illustrated.
2. The general construction combination and arrangement of parts, substantially
as and for the purposes herein before described and illustrated by the sheet of
drawings.
Dated 15th December 1893.
THOS.
KENDRICK,
3, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.