Improvements in Oil-feeders.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 6th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
I JAMES LUND of 10, Lea Road, Heaton Chapel, in the County of Lancaster,
Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to produce a transparent or translucent vessel or
eceptacle for containing and feeding oil to the bearings of machinery and other
purposes.
Now according to this invention I form the body of the vessel or receptacle of
transparent or translucent material preferably flexible such as celluloid horn or
other suitable substance. The spout or nozzle and the cap may be of metal or of
the same material as the body of the feeder or of any other suitable material.
Oil feeders constructed as above described are very suitable for cyclists, typists,
sewing machine users and others, who take machines away from home as it may be
seen at a glance before starting out how much oil is in the receptacle.
Dated this 19th day of June 1893.
FREDK. WALKER,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Oil-feeders.
I, JAMES LUND, of 10, Lea Road, Heaton Chapel, in the County of Lancaster,
Commercial Traveller, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to produce a transparent or translucent vessel or
receptacle for containing and feeding oil to the bearings of machinery and other
purposes.
Now according to this invention I form the body of the vessel or receptacle of
ti insparent or translucent material or substance such as celluloid horn or of other
suitable substance which is also flexible. The spout or nozzle and the cap may be
o metal or of the same material or substance as the body of the oil feeder aforesaid
or of any other suitable material.
Oil feeders constructed as above described are particularly suitable for cyclists,
ty pists, sewing machine users and others, who take machines away from home as it
may be seen at a glance before starting out how much oil is in the vessel or
receptacle.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawing showing some of the various forms in
which my improved oil feeder may be made. Figs. 1, 3 & 4 being side views,
Fig. 2 an end view of Fig. 1, and Figs. 5, 6, 7 & 8 various cross sections thereof.
Referring to Figs. 1 & 2, according to one form of my invention I make both
sides a of the body or vessel of the oil feeder of celluloid or other suitable substance
such as horn, which is both flexible and transparent, whilst the rim b, to which the
sides a are secured may be formed of a similar substance, but not transparent such
as is known as "ivorin."

page_text: The body of the oil feeder shown in Figs. 3 & 4 respectively, may be formed
wholly of a transparent substance such as aforesaid, or with its bottom c of flexible
sheet metal. According to another form of my invention, see Fig. 5, one side a
only may be made of transparent and flexible substance and the other side a¹ and
the rim of metal, or the rim may be of metal, see Fig. 6, and both sides
transparent, or vice versa, as shown in Fig. 7, or the body of the oil feeder may
consist of two flexible and at the same time transparent sides a secured to each
other, see Fig. 8.
In each case the transparent part of the body of the oil feeder serves to enable
to observe the quantity of oil in the same and on pressure being exerted thereon to
eject it.
Having now particularly described and
tion and in what manner the same is to
claim, is-
ascertained the nature of this inven-
be performed, I declare that what 1
1st. An oil feeder formed wholly or partly of a transparent and at the same time
flexible material or substance such as celluloid or horn, substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
2nd. An oil feeder, as specified in the preceding claim, the body of which is
formed wholly or partly of a transparent and at the same time flexible material
or substance, the transparency of which permits to observe the quantity of the oil
in the body of the oil feeder and the flexibility to eject it on pressure being exerted
thereon, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 5th day of March 1894.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.