Improvements in Oil Cans or Feeders.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 5th Jan., 1895
Improvements in Oil Cans or Feeders.
WILLIAM HENRY THOMPSON and ROBERT THOMPSON Engineers
155, Fenchurch Street London E.C. do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :—
Our invention has for its object improvements in oil cans or feeders for extending
their utility to the illumination of dark places and facilitating access to bearings
located therein.
In carrying our invention into practice we arrange or combine the oil can or
feeder with a lamp by dividing the body, reservoir or part of the oil can or feeder
containing the oil so that by such division two compartments are formed, one for
containing the lubricating oil and the other for containing lamp oil so as to form
the lamp reservoir which is fitted with suitable plug, cover wick tubes, parts or
mechanism for sealing or retaining the oil and holding or adjusting the lamp-wick,
or wicks, or glasses.
The said division may be arranged horizontally or vertically through the body
or reservoir or partly in both directions and be of any number according to the
position and number of lamps that may be found convenient or desirable according
to the design or construction of the oil can or feeder, the spout of which may be
formed or followed with the wick tube so that the light may be in close proximity
to the outlet for the lubricating oil.
The lamp oil reservoir and the wicks may be arranged in or on any part of the
oil can or feeder, they may be in seperate connected, adjustable or detachable
parts together forming the combination of oil can or feeder and lamp, or the lamp
reservoir carrying its fittings may be formed so as to pass through and rest on an
aperture formed in the oil can or feeder to receive it, a lamp so arranged may be
substituted for the screw or other sealing plug covering the aperture through which
the oil can is charged by making the lamp reservoir in the form of a hollow plug
to be passed through and screwed or connected to the aforesaid aperture so as to
seal it.
Where the conditions will admit of one kind of oil being used for both lubrication
and lighting, the lamp reservoir may be dispensed with and the wick be passed into
and supplied from such oil aforesaid.
Where the employment of candles may be found more convenient as the lighting
medium the lamp reservoir may be arranged as a spring candle holder or a candle
holder may be substituted for the tubes or arrangement for holding or regulating
the wicks. The two compartments aforesaid may be formed by pressing rings or
sections of piping or tubes into the form of figure eight, or letter B. or other
suitable shapes.
W. H. THOMPSON.
ROBT. THOMPSON.

page_text: Improvements in Oil Cans or Feeders.
WILLIAM HENRY THOMPSON and ROBERT THOMPSON Engineers
155 Fenchurch Street London E.C. 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 :-
Our invention has for its object improvements in oil cans or feeders for extending
their utility to the illuminating of dark places and facilitating access to bearings
located therein.
In carrying our invention into practice we arrange or combine the oil can or
feeder with a lamp by dividing the body reservoir or part of the oil can or feeder
containing the oil so that by such division two compartments are formed one for
containing the lubricating oil and the other for containing lamp oil so as to form
the lamp reservoir which is fitted with plug cover, wick tubes and parts or
mechanism for retaining the lamp oil and holding or adjusting the lamp wick or
wicks hereinafter called the burner or burners.
The aforesaid divisions or partitions may be arranged horizontally or vertically
(or partly in both directions as a bend or incline) through or in the aforesaid body
or reservoir of the oil can and in any number according to the design or construction
of the oil can or its body or reservoir and the number of burners to be supplied
from the lamp oil divisions or compartments contained therein. A lamp reservoir
preferably in the form of a hollow plug may be passed through and rest on or in
an aperture formed in the aforesaid body or reservoir of the oil can to receive it so
that it may be connected to such aperture by a screw (or other suitable connection)
and retain or divide the lamp oil from the lubricating oil by which it may be
surrounded and at the same time forming a detachable lamp when the connection
or connections with the aperture are such as admit of the said lamp oil reservoir
being readily detached from it, and as such detachable lamp may be more
economically arranged by passing its reservoir through the aperture by which the
oil can is charged with lubricating oil (instead of providing a special aperture
aforesaid) and connecting it with such aperture by a screw or other suitable
connection formed on it or its burner so that it may substitute and be utilized as
the sealing plug for retaining the lubricating oil-although the arrangement or
application of the detachable lamp to the body of the reservoir of the oil can may
vary as may be required according to the design of such body the aforesaid
arrangement has the advantage of locating the lamp oil reservoir so that it is
protected from injury when in use by the body of the oil can and the lubricating
oil contained therein.
When the conditions will admit of one kind of oil being used for both lubricating
and lighting the aforesaid lamp reservoir may be dispensed with leaving the
burner only connected to the aperture so that its wick may pass directly into
and draw its supply from the oil contained in the body or reservoir of the
oil can.
When the conditions are more favorable to the employment of candle instead of
oil as a lighting medium the lamp oil reservoir may be arranged as a spring candle
holder or a candle holder substituted for the burner.

page_text: or reservoir B. the inclined division or partition dividing A. into two compart-
ments C and D. C. being the compartment containing the lamp oil, and D. the
lubricating oil. C is arranged with the burner E. and wick F drawing its supply
from the lamp oil therein contained. G. is the plug for charging D. with
lubricating oil.
In Fig. 2. the division or partition B. is in a horizontal position the passage G
passes through the reservoir C. and communicates with the compartment D.
charged with lubricating oil.
Fig. 3. is a horizontal section of an oil can in which the reservoir C. containing
the lamp oil is in the form of a hollow plug arranged with a burner G. and screw
connection to the filling aperture of A. so as to form a detachable lamp and be
utilized as a sealing plug for the said filling aperture. F. is the wick.
Fig. 4. Sheet 2. shows the aforesaid reservoir C. dispensed with so that the
wick F. in the burner E. is supplied by an oil adapted for both burning and
lubricating contained the reservoir D.
Fig. 5. Sheet 2 shows a longitudinal section of an oil can with the lamp oil
reservoir C. and burner E. arranged as a spring candle holder E screwed in a
similar manner as described at Fig. 4.
Fig. 6. is a plan of an oil can showing the division or partition plate B. in a
vertical position longitudinally dividing the oil can A. into two parts or reservoirs C
and D. G is the charging plug for the lubricating oil and E is the lamp oil
burner.
Fig. 7. shows an oil can differing in design from the foregoing. A. is the body or
reservoir B. forms the partition dividing A into two compartments C and D.-
C containing lamp oil and D. lubricating. E is the burner and F. wick.
Having particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare what we
claim is
Firstly. We claim the arrangement of the body or reservoir of the oil can or
feeder with divisions or partitions dividing it into or forming compartments therein
for holding separate the lamp oil from the lubricating oil, and further we claim the
arrangement and connection of the burner or burners with such compartment or
compartments aforesaid as are arranged to hold the lamp oil-substantially in the
manner and for the purpose herein described and shown Figs. 1. 2. 6. 7. Sheets 1. 2
of the drawings hereto annexed.
Secondly. We claim the arrangement of the lamp oil reservoir in through or to
an aperture formed in the body or reservoir of the oil can in such a manner that it
may be provided with a suitable burner and retain or divide the lamp oil from the
lubricating oil surrounding it; and further we claim the arrangement of the
aforesaid lamp oil reservoir, with a screw or movable connection for holding it and
its burner to the aperture, body or reservoir of the oil can, so that they may be
readily detached, and form a detachable lamp; also-we claim the utilization and
connection of the aforesaid detachable lamp as a plug for the filling aperture of the
oil can; substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein described and shown
in Fig. 3. Sheet 1. of the drawing hereto annexed.
Thirdly. We claim the connection or adaptation of the detachable lamp to oil
cans of various designs-substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein
described and shown in Fig. 3. Sheet 1.
Fourthly. We claim the arrangement and connection of the burner with the
body or reservoir of the oil can so that its wicks may draw their supply from the
oil contained therein when such oil is adapted for both burning and lubricating so
as to admit of the lamp oil reservoir or compartment being dispensed with
substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein described and shown in
Fig. 4.
Fifthly. We claim the arrangement of the body or reservoir of the oil can with

page_text: a candle lamp or holder substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein
described and shown Fig. 5. Sheet 2.
W. H. THOMPSON.
ROBT. THOMPSON.