Improvements in Oilcans, Lamps, and other Vessels.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
COME LEIDDI
Improvements in Oilcans, Lamps, and other Vessels.
We, THOMAS FLETCHER BRAIME, of 148 Chapeltown Road, Leeds, in the
County of York, Oilcan Manufacturer, and JAMES HENRY BRAIME, of Rothwell,
near Leeds, aforesaid, Engineer, 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:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in oilcans, lamps, and other
vessels.
The oilcans, lamps, and other vessels to which these improvements are applicable,
are that class of oilcans, lamps, or other vessels which for the more handiness in
filling, are provided with a dish or funnel or well,-all of which are included in the
term "dish"-secured above or below or about or to a suitable opening in their
surface, or to an opening formed by the top of the dish. The said dish having a
suitable hole through it communicating with the interior of the oilcan, lamp, or
other vessel and which hole constitutes its filling hole. Or to that class of oilcans,
lamps, or other vessels which have a portion of their surface recessed and a hole
provided in and through its interior surface; this said hole communicating with the
interior of the oilcan, lamp, or other vessel and forming its filling hole.
The improvements constituting this invention consist in providing an improved
method of constructing oilcans, lamps or other vessels as above described with a
means of preventing the collection of grit, dirt, or other deleterious substances in
the interior of the dish secured to the opening in the surface of such oilcans, lamps,.
or other vessels, or the interior of the recess formed in the surface of such vessels
as the case may be, and of means employed therewith for closing in simultaneously
or separately the filling hole formed through the surface of such dishes or recesses
as above described.
In our improved oilcans, lamps, or other vessels, the means employed for the
above purposes consist of double surfaced slides, or two slides having each a
working or seating surface, such two surfaces of the slide or slides working either
together by means of a suitable connection between them or working independently
of each other as desired.
The two surfaces when moved or rotated away from their covering-in positions
allowing oil or other liquid to be poured first into the dish and from thence by the
filling hole into the interior of the oilcan, lamp, or other vessel.
In the drawings hereunto annexed we have shown several illustrations how our
invention may be applied to oilcans but it is also applicable to lamps and other
vessels.
Fig. 1 is a part sectional elevation of an oilcan with our invention. applied.
Fig. 2 a plan of the same.
Fig. 3 a part sectional elevation of an oilcan with our invention applied to the
dish stamped in the top of the oil can.
Fig. 4 a part sectional elevation of an oil can with the closing slides made in one
piece.
Fig. 5 a part sectional elevation of an oil can with a solid closing slide.
Fig. 6 a part sectional elevation of an oil can with the closing slides arranged to
work on inside of the top of the can and of the dish.

page_text: Fig. 7. a part sectional elevation of an oilean with the closing slides working
respectively against the underside of the top of the oilcan and on the upper surface
of the dish.
Fig. 8 a part sectional elevation of an oilcan with revolving closing slides.
Like parts in all the views are marked with similar letters of reference.
A is the top of the body portion of an oilcan of ordinary construction provided
with the usual spout, valve, and handle which are not shown in the drawings. In
the top A is provided the usual orifice B, the edges of which may be either as
shown, or they may be turned slightly inwards to give a neater appearance to the
oilcan.
C is the dish which may either be soldered or otherwise fixed to the under
surface of the top A as shown at Figs. 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7, or stamped therein as
shown at Fig. 3, or let into and passed through the orifice B until its flange c rests
upon or projects above the upper or outer surface of the top A as shown at
Fig. 8 in this case a portion of the dish is bent over to form a cover c¹ and takes
the place of the part marked a' in the other views. In the dish C is provided a
filling hole D for forming an entrance to the interior of the oil can.
The covering slide is provided with the covering portions E E¹ and it may be
either say for example rectangular in form or circular, and it may be made in say
one piece as at Figs. 3, 4, and 8; or in two or more portions as at Figs. 1, 6 and 7;
or it may be formed in a tubular or solid form as at Fig. 5.
The covering portions are employed for respectively closing the orifice B and
the filling hole D.
The walls or sides of the dish may if desired be arranged to act as guides for the
covering slide.
F is a helical spring which may be either interposed between the two covering
portious EE as at Figs. 1, 6 and 7, or made to encircle a pin ffixed to the under,
surface of the covering portion E¹. At Fig. 1 the projection takes the place of
the pin bearing the same reference letter in the other views.
The spring F is employed for retaining one or both of the covering portions E E¹
in position.
The pin may as at Fig. 6 be arranged to form a handle or projection for
operating the covering slide C, or a handle or projection
e may be formed by
bending a portion of one or both covering portions E E' upwards, as at Figs.
and 7; or fixing or forming a projecting piece thereto or thereon as at Figs. 3, 4,
and 5.
The surface of the interior of the dish C around the filling-hole D is of suitable
area such that it will allow the slide E', which has its seating thereon to slide on it
so as to uncover the filling-hole D provided therein. The cross section of the
seating surface provided on it for the slide E' to work on may be constructed of
any suitable design or configuration, or in lieu of the surface of the dish D forming
the seating surface for the slide, we may secure a suitable seating of other suitable
material around the filling hole.
The double slide with the two sliding covering portions E E' which are employed
for respectively closing the orifice B and filling hole D are constructed of any
suitable material such as brass, iron, and the like, and they are provided with
suitable seating surfaces to make close joints around the orifice B and filling-hole. D.
when placed on the seating surfaces provided for them.
The covering portion E may as already described consist of a loose plate as in
Figs. 1, 6, and 7 connected with the covering portion E by means of the projection e
passing through the covering portion E as shown. This projection is also employed
for actuating the double slide. When the double slide is thus formed the spiral or
other suitable spring F is placed between the upper surface of the cover E' and the
under surface of the loose or covering plate E. The spring causes the surface of
the slide E¹ to be held tightly against the seating surface of the filling hole D and
at the same time the plate or cover E is forced against the surface of the top A of
the oilcan. Or the closing cover may be solid as at Fig. 5 and have a surface.

page_text: thereon for, covering in the orifice B and filling hole D.. Or the closing cover may
be made in say one piece as at Figs. 3 and 4, in which case the surfaces E and E¹
are for covering the orifice B and the filling hole D.
At Figs. 3 and 5 the surfaces of the covering slides E E' for closing the filling
hole D and orifice B are held to their seatings by means of of a spring F bearing
against a sliding bridge or bridges H, and the head of a suitable rivet or pin or
projection for a shoulder on the connection between the parts having the two
surfaces as in Fig. 6.
Or the sliding covers for closing the orifice B and filling hole D may be
formed separately having a separate projection for actuating each slide E and E
whereby the same may be moved independently of each other or simultaneously and
they are held to their requisite position by a spring F as in Fig. 7 or other suitable
means.
Or as shewn in Fig. 8 which consists of a suitable dish C having part of its
recessed surface after being formed, closed over by a lip c' or projection and the
double slide may be made to revolve.
The dish C is provided with a filling hole D.
The revolving double slide which is also in dish form is provided with a hole E'
to form a communication between it and the interior of the oil can, and when the
solid unperforated part E' of the revolving dish is closed over the filling hole D,
the surface of the revolving slide thus covers the filling hole. The top portion E
of the revolving dish is turned over and inwards to form a covering for the open
part of the fixed dish.
From the above construction it will be seen that the double slides E E' (or the
two slides, as the case may be) have two surfaces, one of which covers in the filling
hole D in the dish C. The other covering the orifice B in the top A of the oilcan.
The surface of the dish c¹ when the oilcan is in use and the surfaces of the slide or
slides covering their respective apertures prevent the collection of any grit, dirt, or
other deleterious substances entering the interior of the dish and also that when
these surfaces of the double slide or slides are moved away from their seatings, free
ingress is allowed for oil or other liquid into the interior of the dish C and from
thence into the interior of the oilcau.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. An oilcan, lamp, and the like provided with a sliding or rotary single or double
cover having two surfaces for respectively closing the orifice of the dish and the
filling hole therein, either separately or simultaneously substantially as herein set
forth and illustrated.
2. In an oilcan, lamp, and the like such as herein described, the combination with
the top A of the slide or slides having two surfaces such as E E', one surface E' for
closing the filling hole and the cther surface E for closing the orifice of the dish,
said slide or slides being capable of being actuated simultaneously or separately
substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
3. In an oilcan, lamp, and the like such as herein described, the combination of
the top A having an orifice B which forms the mouth of a dish C formed therein or
attached thereto, said dish being provided with a filling hole D, and a sliding cover
provided with two surfaces E and E for respectively closing the orifice B and
filling hole D either simultaneously or separately, the surface or surfaces of the
sliding cover being kept in position by a spring F interposed between the two
surfaces or below one of them, as and for the purposes set forth.
4. The combination in an oilcan, lamp, and the like substantially such as herein
described of the top A having a circular dish C with a portion of its surface closed
and provided with a filling hole D, said dish being let in or attached to the top A,.
a second dish provided with an aperture and working in the dish C, said second dish
being arranged to form a revolving cover for closing the orifice of the dish C and

page_text: the filling hole D and kept in position by a spring F substantially as herein.
described and illustrated at Fig. 8 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Fourteenth day of September 1895.
THOMAS FLETCHER BRAIME.
JAMES HENRY BRAIME.