An Indicator Adapted to Filling Lamps or other Articles or Vessels used for Oil or other Liquids of any Description.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Indicator Adapted to Filling Lamps or other Articles or Vessels
used for Oil or other Liquids of any Description.
MARY JANE ROWLAND of 166 Brooke Road Evering Road Clapton in the County
of Middlesex wife of John Richards Rowland and BENJAMIN HAYMAN MOORE of
58 Vassall Road Brixton in the County of Surrey Ironmonger do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A piece of Tubing having cap and chain and made of Tin or other materials
into which is fixed a cone, cup shaped perforated or otherwise -so-shaped as to form
a centre or bull's eye and made of Tin or other materials or the same can be made
of a concave or other suitable shape perforated or otherwise with a slot or centre or
Bull's eye. The same can be fixed or may be attached with or without Tubing afore-
said to any Lamp made of Tin or other materials or other vessels or articles made
of Tin or other material to be filled with oil or other Liquids of any description.
If made without the tubing and cap and chain the saine can be fixed inside and a
sliding cover outside made of Tin or other materials.
AA 1
M. J. ROWLAND.
BENJN. H. MOORE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Indicator Adapted to Filling Lamps or other Articles or Vessels
used for Oil or other Liquids of any Description.
We MARY JANE ROWLAND late of 166 Brooke Road Clapton but now of 7 Braemar
Road West Green Road Tottenham both in the County of Middlesex wife of John
Richards Rowland and BENJAMIN HAYMAN MOORE of 58 Vassall Road Brixton in
the County of Surrey Ironmonger 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 our Invention is to prevent the overfilling of Lamps vessels or articles
requiring to be filled with oil or other liquids and consists of a funnel of a conical
or cup shaped form perforated or otherwise made of Tin or other material and so
shaped as to form an opening or bull's eye at the apex or the same can be made of a
concave or other suitable shape perforated or otherwise with a slot opening or bull's
eye and the same can be fixed into a piece of tubing having cap and chain and can
be fixed or constructed into any Lamp vessel or article made of Tin or other material
to be filled with oil or other liquid. The said funnel so shaped as aforesaid can also
be blocked cast or fixed into any Lamp vessel or article used for the purpose herein-
before mentioned and with or without such tubing as aforesaid and a sliding cover of
any suitable shape made of Tin or other material placed outside.
Figure 1 represents a piece of Tube "AA" showing by dotted line funnel "B"
and cap with chain "C" and which can be fixed into Lamps or other vessels or articles
used for the purpose of holding liquids.
Figure 2 shows a funnel "D" constructed in the body of a Lamp without tubing
and having one side open "E" showing by dotted line the level of the liquid filled
up to the bottom of the funnel also opening "F" by which the vessel is filled and
also a sliding cover "G."

page_text: Having now fully described the nature and object of our Invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed we claim as new and novel the
following
The application of a funnel of such construction shape or shapes and so placed
fixed blocked or cast and covered as aforesaid in any Lamps vessels or articles to be
filled with oil or other liquids so that when the oil or other liquid comes to view in
the centre or bull's eye or slot of the said funnel a person so filling such Lamps or
vessels will know that it is filled and thus prevent an overflow all of which is
substantially herein described reference being had to the drawings hereto annexed.
Dated this 15th day of November 1889
M. J. ROWLAND.
BENJN. H. MOORE.