US1113453A - Oil-can. - Google Patents

Description

W. 'I'. LOVE.

OIL GAN.

APLIGATION FILED Nov.15, 1913.

1,118,453. l Patented 0013.131914.

TH NORRIS PErERs CO4. PHOTO-LITHO.. WASHINGTON. D. C.

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Application filed November 15, 1913. Serial No. 801,230.

of illinois, have invented certain new and*l useful Improvements in-Oil-Cans, ofwhich the following isa specification.

My invention relates to cans, and more particularly to that class of such containers adapted to be provided with means adapted to facilitate the filling of other vessels therefrom.

The object of this invention isto provide an oil container' of the character described which shall have vembodied thereinV means for efiectually preventing the overfiow of a vessel which is being filled by the oil poured from the container. l A further object of this invention is to provide ank oil can embodying an improved construction by means of which the above result is secured. With these and other objects in view my invention consists in the peculiar combina; tion and rarrangement of thel various 'parts of a safety oil container as herein described, and more particularly set forthinthe appended claims.

Referring to the drawings wherein similar refe-rence. numerals indicate similar partswherever used, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device; Fig. 2 a vertical section through the same; Fig. 3 a transverse section taken on line 3, 3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 a detail section showing the operation of the device. y

The numeral 5 designates a cam preferably cylindrical, provided with the usual bail 6, pouring spout 7 and handle 8 for aid in tipping the device. In the top of the can is formed the usual filling opening 9 Aprovided with a knurled screw cap 10. Leading from the filling opening 9 and extending downwardly into the body of the can is a short pipe 11, provided with an elbow 12 which has attached thereto a longer pipe 13 extending at right angles to the pipe 11, the pipe 13 extends outwardly into a chamber 14 formed in thebody of the can and covered by cap 15. The pipe 13 is Open at its end 16, which extends within the chamber 14, so that when the can is being filled the oil or other liquid being placed therein will run through the pipes 11,212, 13 and out through the opening 16 into *the chamber 14, andI thence intothefbody'of the can.

The spout 7 is provided in` its interior withV a-smallair tube 17 which extends outwardly to themouth 18 of the spout' and d downwardly to an elbow 19 within the can body, where :it-isprovided with an yextenspecification of Letteis'rateiit.' Patented p i ysion20 extending across the interior of the 4 can body and open at its end 21. This tube serves the purpose of cutting on the flow of oil from the can into another vessel being filled from the can when the level of the oil in the vessel being filled reaches the spout,

thus cutting Off the flow of air through the tube at the point 18. Heretofore devices of f this character have been more or less faulty,

lin that should the cap 9 become in any way punctured or the threads thereof become jammed so that' air would leak around the` cap 9thus giving access to the interior of the can the flow of' oil would not be stopped, and thus the vessel being filled wouldl consequently overflow.:y

` yWith the present device when the can is` tipped sufficiently to pour oil out of the spout 7, 'as shown in Fig. 4, the oil fills the chamber 14, thus eii'ectually sealing the open end 16 of the tube 13, so that should there be any leak around the cap 9 of the tube 10 there would not be any air admitted to the interior of the can, as the oil or liquid contained within the chamber 14 would prevent the same from entering the interior of the can. By this it will beseen that the can would be effectually sealed and that the instant the level of the Oil covered the tip 18 of the pipe 17 all further pouring ofoil from the can would at once be stopped, and the danger of overflow from the vessel being filled from the can would thus be prevented.

- Considerable variation of the detailsl of this invention may be resorted to without as permissif of anair tube in said pouring spout extending into Said receptaclm a pipe `connecting with said lilling aperture and eitending into y said receptacle and opening into u chamber l formed in the wall thereof on the pouring 'i side of the can, whereby when the receptacle is tilted to pour therefrom the liquid will lled will close the pouring vspout and pre- Vent any further i'low of liquid therefrom.

2. The combination with a receptacle having :L filling Vaperture and a pouring spout, seid receptacle being provided with a chamloer formed in the wall thereof on the pouring-side of the can, of an air tube in `said .pouring spout extending into the receptacle, a pipe connected with said filling aperture and extending downwardly and forwardly into said receptacle and opening into the chamber formed in the wall thereof, wherehy when the receptacle is tilted to pour iill said chamber and close said filling pipe, t and the level/of liquid in the Vessel being' therefrom the liquid will fill said chamber to close said filling pipe to exclude all air entering therefrom.

In testimony whereof'I alix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM T. LOVE. Witnesses:

WV. BEARDSLEY, GEORGE G. COPPEL.

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