A New or Improved Economical Oil Can.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Oct., 1889-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1889
CONT LEIE SILULEICA LION.
A New or Improved Economical Oil Can.
I, FRANZ BELOHLAWEK of Korngasse 44 Prague, Bohemia in the Empire of
Austria, Railway Inspector and Engineer, to the Imperial and Royal Austro-
Hungarian State Railways do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 this invention is the construction of an economical oil can intended to
reduce to a minimum the consumption of oil or grease. The oil can operates in such
a manner that the oil or grease absorbed by a brush from a suitable reservoir is
rubbed off again when the said brush is pressed or squeezed so that only the necessary
quantity of oil is dropped upon the object requiring to be lubricated and no more oil
can possibly run or drip off.
The accompanying drawing fully illustrates this invention. Fig. 1. is half a longi-
tudinal section and half a side view of my improved oil can. Fig. 2. is a sectional
plan of Fig. 1. on the line a-b.
The improved oil can consists of a cylindrical hollow receptacle A which terminates
conically below and contains an upright appendage B having internal cylindrical walls
and tapering downwards to a perforation or opening O at the bottom as illustrated.
A lid of wood or other material serves to cover the said appendage and prevents
dust from falling thereinto. The appendage B forms an additional cover and screws
upon the receptacle A by means of its screwed projecting rim or edge. The brush E
whigh is furnished with a handle D is inserted or dipped through the appendage B
into the oil which is contained in the lower end of the cylinder A. When the brush
is drawn out the superfluous oil will owing to the full diameter of the perforation O
in the appendage B being smaller than the circumference of the brush be rubbed off
by the edge of the opening O and along the inner wall of the conical tube g and will
run back into the reservoir.
At the foot of the receptacle A metal tubes H H' are arranged at each side and
serve for the insertion of the brush. It will be obvious that this arrangement con-
stitutes a very economical oil can and one which will be found particularly useful for
the oiling of the interior of the barrels of sporting guns and other fire arms and
other similar tubular or cylindrical articles requiring to be coated with the thinnest
possible coating of oil.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The improved arrangement and construction of economical oil can consisting of
a cylindrical hollow receptacle having an appendage or additional piece provided with
a conical pipe whose lower diameter is smaller than the periphery of the brush so that
by withdrawing the latter the surplus oil is rubbed off by the edge of the opening
and runs back into the receptacle substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described.
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1000
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.