Year: 1897

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I, ARTHUR EDWARD WILSON BROWNE, of the Valor Company Limited, of Church
Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:
or
This invention consists of improvements relating to tanks for storing oil
other liquid in a convenient manner for withdrawal in such quantities as may be
required for domestic or other use.
The object of my invention is to so construct and arrange such tanks together
with the hand pump or withdrawing appliance and fittings, as to permit of con-
venient and ready packing within a small compass.
I construct an oil tank or cabinet in accordance with my invention of a circular,
semi-circular, square, or other configuration. The hand pump for the with-
drawal of the contained oil in such quantities as may be required, I preferably
attach to a suction tube fitted to the top plate of the vessel, on that side of
the plate which is depressed to form a well or trough for the reception of over-
flowing or spilt ail from the pump. The base of the trough is formed by a suitable
cover plate arranged to serve also as a strainer, which is hinged at the lower part
of the top plate. The well or trough with the pump contained therein are
covered by an external lid or hood hinged to the top plate.
Instead of rigidly securing the top plate by soldering or other usual methods,
I secure it in a detachable manner by bolts and nuts or other removable fastening
devices, and I also preferably employ detachable fastenings for securing the hood
to the top plate.
The top plate and hood are formed of such dimensions as to permit of their
being nested within the tank body with the detachable pump and other fittings,
and I am thus enabled to reduce the packing case or crate in which the vessel is
placed for transit, to dimensions but slightly in excess of the external dimensions
of the tank body.
I construct tanks of varying capacities of such longitudinal and transverse
dimensions as to permit of nesting the smaller tanks within the larger, and thus
several tanks can be packed within dimensions but slightly in excess of the largest
one of the series.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, ARTHUR EDWARD WILSON BROWNE, of the Valor Company Limited, of Church
Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, 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 consists of improvements relating to tanks for storing oil or
other liquid in a convenient manner for withdrawal in such quantities as may be
required for domestic or other use.
The object of my invention is to so construct and arrange such tanks together
with the hand pump or withdrawing appliance and fittings, as to permit of con-
venient and ready. packing within a small compass.
I construct an oil tank or cabinet in accordance with my invention, of a circular,
semi-circular, square or other configuration. The hand pump for the with-
drawal of the contained oil in such quantities as may be required, I preferably
attach to a suction tube socket fitted to the top plate of the vessel, on that side of
the plate which is depressed to form a well or trough for the reception of the over-
flowing or spilt oil from the pump. The base of the trough is formed by a suitable
cover plate, arranged to serve also as a strainer, which is hinged at the lower part
of the top plate. The well or trough and the pump contained therein are
covered by an external lid or hood hinged to the top plate.
Instead of rigidly securing the top plate by soldering or other usual methods,
I secure it in a detachable manner by bolts and nuts or other removable fastening
devices, and I also preferably employ detachable fastenings for securing the hood
to the top plate.
The top plate and hood are formed of such dimensions as to permit of their
being nested within the tank body with the detachable pump and other fittings,
and I am thus enabled to reduce the packing case or crate in which the vessel is
placed for transit, to dimensions but slightly in excess of the external dimensions
of the tank body.
I construct tanks of varying capacities of such longitudinal and transverse
dimensions as to permit of nesting the smaller tanks within the larger, and thus
several tanks can be packed within dimensions but slightly in excess of the largest
one of the series.
The two accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings illustrate a circular oil
cabinet constructed in accordance with my invention.
On Sheet 1 Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 a plan of the oil cabinet
with the lid or hood closed.
Figure 3 is a sectional elevation and Figure a plan of the cabinet with the
lid or hood open.
In the detail views on Sheet 2, Figure 5 is an elevation of the hood, Figure 6
a sectional elevation and Figure 7 a plan of the top plate, whilst Figure 8 is an
elevation and Figure 9 a plan of the well or trough base plate. Figure 10 repre-
sents the hinge pin for the cabinet lid or hood.
The same reference letters in the different. views indicate the same parts.
The top plate A is secured to the upper end of the body B of the oil cabinet
by bolts and nuts or other readily removable fastening devices. The hand
pump C, with the suction tube D in rigid attachment therewith, is screwed into
the suction tube socket E fitted to the top plate A on the portion which is depressed
to form one side of the well or overflow trough F. The pump C with the suction

page_text: tube D can be readily unscrewed from the socket tube E and utilised for the pur-
pose of filling the cabinet direct from an oil barrel. The trough base plate G
is hinged to the depressed portion of the plate A by the hinge plates g; the plate
is perforated as shown to serve as a strainer. The lid or hood H is hinged to the
top plate A with the hinge pin J passing through the hinge plates j..
When detached the whole of the parts herein before described can be inserted
within the body B of the oil cabinet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The improved construction and arrangement of the parts of an oil cabinet
or like tank or vessel substantially as and for the purposes described.
2. Nesting oil cabinets and fittings for same formed by a combination of parts
substantially as described and as illustrated.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.