US1225725A - Bail-ear for oil-cans. - Google Patents

Description

C. L. WAGANDT.

BAIL EAR FOR OIL CANS.

APPLICATION FILED 00119. 1914.

1,225,725, Patented May 8, 1917.

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CHARLES L. WAGANDT, or BALTIMQRE, MARYLAND, AssrsNos. T ITHE. NATIONAL ENAMELING &. s'rAMPINGcOMPANY, or NEW YORK, N. Y., A, cOnPonArION or NEW JERSEY.

Specification Of Letters Patent.

BAIL-EAR FOB; OIL-CANS.

Patented May 8, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. lVacANnT, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful: Improve ments in BailEars for Oil-Cans, of which the following is a specification.-

This invention relates to improved bailears for oil-cans.

Sheet-metal oil-cans with stamped breasts commonly have a screw-nozzle closed by a cap, and also have wire-bails whose ears have been attached by rivets or solder. These methods of attaching bail-ears to oil can breasts sometimes require the sheet metal to be perforated, which is objectionable because of leaks that result, and other disadvantages.

It is desirable to provide oil-cans of this type with bail-ears attached without making perforations and also with relatively smaller wire-bails than heretofore.

To these ends I attach both the screw-nozzle and the two bail-ears to the can-breast by means of one annular curled joint at the opening in the breast where the screw-nozzle is placed.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,-

Figure 1 is a side View of the breast of an oil-can, and shows a screw cap closing the nozzle, the bail and bail-ears attached in the improved manner.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of an Oil-can breast showing the nozzle broken away for convenience of drawing, the screw cap, bail and two bail-ears which latter are in the improved position.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the bail-ears and is shown to make clear the general shape of the ear, but for clearness of illustration this figure is shown without the corrugations that are in the preferred form seen in Figs. 2, 4 and 5.

Figs. 4 and 5 are both sectional views on adiametrical line across the can-breast and screw-nozzle. V

In Fig. 4 the ears and screw nozzle have not been attached but are in position ready for the dies to close and form the annular joint which attaches them; in Fig. 5 the anof an ordinary cylindric can-body 17, only partly shown.

The can-breast in this instance is provided with a spout 7, attached directly to the breast; a screw-nozzle 8, is sccured'by an annular-shaped curled joint 9,. and the breast also has two bail-earslO, whose bases 11, are secured in the same annular-shaped joint 9, that holds the screw-nozzle.

Referring to Fig. 3, the stem part 10, of the bail-ear stands upright and has a hole to receive the hook 12, of the wire-bail 13; the base 11, of the ear when the latter is new and seen in its separate condition as in Fig. 3, has the form of a curved flange,-the curve of this flange being a segment of a circle corresponding to that of the annular joint 9; the bailear also has a horizontal web 14, that connects the stem-part 10, and the curved base or flange 11. The web, 14 of the bailear seen in Fig. 3 has no corrugations, being shown with plain flat surfaces, but the ears shown in Figs. 2, 4, 5 are corrugated to enable them to be made of thin sheet-metal and yet possess the desired degree of stiffness. In any case the corrugations are not material and are not hereinafter claimed.

The screw-nozzle is closed as usual by a cap 18.

An inspection of Fig. 4 shows a flange 15, on the can-breast turned downward around the opening up through which the screwnozzle 8, is inserted, and the bail-ears are set in position with the curved flange 11, of each ear between said down-turned flange 15, and the base 16, of the screw-nozzle. One bail-ear is on one side of the nozzle diametrically opposite the other car. The upright stems, 10, of the two ears are farther apart by reason of the relative position of the two horizontal webs, 14, and permit the bases 11, of the ears to be nearer together; this affords more room for the screw-cap 18, and for the fingers of a persons hand to turn said cap.

Positioned as shown in Fig. 4, the parts are ready for the action of closing dies, not

' shown. The same parts are shown in Fig. 5,

but here the annular joint 9, has been closed by the dies, and now the two bail-ears have their bases hooked into the same joint 9, that secures the screw-nozzles.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is;-

1. An oil-can having a top breast provided at its center with a circular nozzle Whose base is secured to the breast by an annular joint around said base; a wire bail; two bailears each having an upright stem, a basefiange engaged in the same annular joint that secures said nozzle to the canbreast,

and a horizontal web connecting'the upright stem and the base-fiange and the web of each ear extending horizontally in a direction away from said annular joint,- whereby the two upright ear-stems may be positioned farther apart than the diametrical measurement of the annular joint in which the said ears are secured.

2. An oil-can having a breast provided with a screw-nozzle secured to the breast by an annular joint; two bail-ears one of which has position at one side of the nozzle dia- Copies of this patent may be obtained for top by a surrounding joint; two ears positioned at diametrically opposite sides of the said nozzle and each ear having a base that is secured'in the said surrounding joint, and

a wire bail whose two ends connect with said ears.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses,

CHARLES L; WAGANDT. Witnesses:

HY SoHUcHARDT, NILES E. FIELDS.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

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