US1180349A

US1180349A - Oil-can.

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Publication number: US1180349A
Application number: US75675213A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles P Watson
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1913-03-25
Filing date: 1913-03-25
Publication date: 1916-04-25
Anticipated expiration: 1933-04-25

Description

C. P. WATSON.

OIL CAN APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25. I913.

Patented Apr. 25,1916.

and

CHARLES P. WATSON, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA.

OIL-CAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 25, 19%.

Application filed March 25, 1913. Serial No. 756,752.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, CHARLns P. WATSON,

a citizen of the United States, residing at York, in the county of York and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Cans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to dispensing cans and has been wrought out with particular reference to being embodied in hand oilers.

It has for its object to produce an oil can that may be conveniently carried, and is provided with a long and serviceable nozzle, which is adjustable so that when not in use it may be slipped within the can, and which may also carry the closure for the can.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a side elevation of a can embodying my invention, the nozzle being in closing position. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the can with the parts in the position represented in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section illustrating the nozzle withdrawn and in operative position. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the can. Fig. 5 is a sectional view illustrating a different form of the invention from that shown in the other views. Fig. 6 is a central vertical section of an oil can illustrating another embodiment of my invention, the nozzle being omitted and some of the parts separated from each other. Fig. 7 is a detached sectional view illustrating still another form of the invention.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings, A represents the body of the can, which may be of any usual or preferred shape, that shown being flat and adapted to be carried in the pocket. Fitted in the top, a, of the can is a short tube constituting a spout and coupling section and consisting essentially of two parts, a section 2 exterior to the can and serving as a funnel to assist in filling and also as a seat for the closure and an interior tapering screw-threaded section 3. Secured to the bottom a of the can and concentric with the spout in the top is a cone-shaped projection 4. It extends upward to a point preferably a little above the top of the can, and a screw-thread 5 is secured to or formed upon it near its ower end. g 6 represents the nozzle of the can. It is tapering and is adapted to closely conform to the conical projection 4, and at its lower end is provided with a scrmvthreaded section 7 adapted to engage with the screwthread 5.

A closure for the can is secured to the nozzle near its outer end and is adapted to fit closely within the seat 2 when the nozzle is slipped over the projection 4: and into the can, as represented in Figs. 1 and 2. This closure may be in the form of a bulb 8, as represented in Figs. 1, 2 and 3; or it may be of conical shape, as represented at 18, Fig. 5, and arranged. to fit against a lining of suitable packing material, 19, fitted in the portion 2, of the spout.

The nozzle is preferably formed at its lower end with a flange 9 on which may be seated a packing 10 that is adapted to be brought into engagement with the lower edge of the screw-threaded section 3 of the spout when the nozzle is drawn out, as rep resented in Fig. 33, forming a close, liquidtight, joint between the nozzle and spout.

From the foregoing it will be understood that when the can is not in use the nozzle is slipped down into the can, as represented in Figs. 1 and 2, and its screw-threaded section 7 made to engage with the screw-threaded section 5 of the conical support l. This engagement is made the means of drawing the closure closely into the seat 2 of the spout, thus sealing the can liquid-tight, and at the same time so disposing the nozzle that it projects but very little beyond the walls of the can. When the can is to be used the nozzle is released from the support i. drawn outward, and caused to engage with the spout, as represented in Fig. 3. when the can will be provided with a nozzle of suiiicient length to be effective. The conical projection and support, &, is preferably of such length that when the nozzle is out of use an d inserted within the can, as represented in Fig. 8, the pointed end of the projection ex tends to the end of the nozzle, so that it serves as a cleaning device for the nozzle each time the nozzle is slipped into the can and the latter closed.

It will be seen that in the form of my invention thus far described there are no loose parts to the can described that may become separated and lost, notwithstanding the fact that it is provided with an adjustable or en tensible nozzle and with a closure each of which when in use serves to seal the can liq uid-tight.

In that form of my invention illustrated T in Fig. 5 thecone or interior support for the nozzle is dispensed with. When the nozzle for this form of can is drawn out and in use the screw-threaded portion 7 thereof engages with the screw-threaded portion 3 of the spout in the manner already described. In order to hold the nozzle in place within the body of the can when not in use I employa detachable cap 12 having a screwthreaded skirt adapted to engage with the projecting screw-threaded portion 2 of the spout. This cap is formed with a central recessed part 13 that is adapted to fit over the end of the vessel and by engagement therewith confine it in place within the can, forcing the sealing closure 18 into close engagement with the packing 19 which has already been described. A piece of cork 11, or other suitable relatively soft material, is preferably secured to the bottom of the can in position to serve as a seat for the lower end of the nozzle. when out of use and confined within the cap as represented in Fig. 5. This form of my invention is not, for some purposes, so advantageous as the one first described, since the cap 12, being separable from the can, is liable to become lost from its place.

In Fig. 6 I have shown a form of the invention in which provision is made for larger filling orifice than in either form of the invention described. 1 1 is a screwthread'ed ring securely seated in the top of the can. Into this ring is adapted to be screwed a'detachable spout 15. In otherrespects' the features of invention illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, are embodied in that form of the invention shownin Fig. 6, as will be'apparent without further explanation. When the can is to be filled the spout 15 may beremoved and 'the'nozzle taken out, leaving the can as illustrated in Fig. 6.-

In Fig. 7 still another embodiment of my invention is illustrated. As here shown the closure 16 carried by the nozzle is exteriorly screw-threaded and is adapted to engage with the exterior portion 2 of the spout which is correspondingly screw-threaded to receive the closure. In thisform of the in vention the support4 may be dispensed with.

What I claim is 1. In a dispensing vessel, the combination 'of the vessel body, a detachable delivery nozzle carrying a screw-threaded section at its lower end, ascrew-threaded projection within the vessel with which'the' nozzle engages when not in use, and av screw-threaded coupling section-in the'top of the vessel with which the said nozzle is adapted'to engage when drawn outfor use.-

2. In a dispensing vessel, the combination of the vesselbody in which is an opening, a detachable delivery nozzle entering the vessel body through the said openingtherein, having a screw-threaded connection at its lower end, a closure for the vessel carried by the nozzle, and a screw-threaded projection within the vessel with which the nozzle engages when not-in use adapted to force the closure into position to seal the opening into the vessel.

3. In a dispensing vessel, the combination of the vessel body through the upper end of which is an opening, a screw-threaded coupling section seated in the said opening, a screw-threaded projection within the vessel. a detachable delivery nozzle having a screwthreaded section at its lower end adapted to engage with the said screw-threaded coupling section when extended to serve as a nozzle for the vessel, and to engage with the said projection within the vessel when not in use, and a closure for the opening into the vessel carried by the nozzle and adapted to be forced into closing position when the nozzle engages with the said screw-threaded projection within the vessel.

4. In a dispensing vessel, the combination ofthe vessel body, a tube fitted in the upper end ofthe vessel having an outer seat section and an inner screw-threaded section, a tapering projection within the vessel having a screw-threaded section, a detachable nozzle having a screw-threaded section at its lower end and adapted to be engaged with the screw-threaded portion of the tube when extended for use, or with the screwthreaded portion of the said tapering projection when inserted into the vessel and out of use, and a closure carried by the nozzle near its outer end adapted to be forced into the seat portion of the tube when the nozzle is screwed upon the said tapering projection.

5. In a dispensing vessel, the combination of the vessel body in which is an opening, a detachable delivery nozzle entering the vessel body through the said opening, a. closure for the said opening when the nozzle is not in use, carried by the nozzle, andmeans with which the nozzle engages located within the vessel for securing the nozzle with the closure seated.

6. In a dispensing vessel, the combination of the vessel body through the upper end of which is an opening, a detachable delivery -nozzle adapted to be passed freely through the said opening into the vessel, means for closing substantially liquid tight the lower end of the nozzle when inserted into the vessel, a closure carried by the nozzle and arranged to fit and close substantially liquid tight the said opening into the vessel when the nozzle is inserted thereinto, and means for securingthe nozzle substantially liquid tight in the said opening when it is drawn out from the vessel into a position to deliver the contents of the vessel.

7 In a dispensing vessel, the combination of the vessel body through an end of which 1,1eo,sio m is an opening, a delivery nozzle extending through the said opening, and having at its inner end a coupling section, a stationary coupling section mounted Within the body of the vessel near the said opening therein, with which the coupling section carried by the delivery nozzle engages when it is drawn out for use, another stationary coupling sec tion within the vessel with which the nozzle is connected when inserted into the vessel and out of use, and means carried by the nozzle tor closing the opening into the vessel, arranged to be brought into operation respectively Whenever the nozzle is 0011- nected with one or the other of the said stationary coupling sections within the vessel.

8. In a dispensing vessel, the combination of the vessel body through an end of which is an opening, a detachable nozzle passing freely through the said opening and adapted to be inserted into the vessel, or to be drawn out therefrom for use as a delivery nozzle, and closing means carried by the nozzle and arranged, when the nozzle is inserted Within the vessel, to tightly close the said opening thereinto, and which when drawn out for use, are arranged also to tightly close the said opening.

9. In a dispensing vessel, the combina tion of the vessel body through an end of which is an opening, a delivery nozzle extending through the said opening and having at its inner end a screw-threaded coupling section, a stationary screw-threaded coupling section mounted within the body 01' the vessel with which the coupling section carried by the nozzle engages when in sert-ed into the vessel and out of use, a closure carried by the nozzle for closing the opening into the vessel when the said screwthreaded coupling sections are brought into engagement, and a projection extending from the said stationary coupling section adapted to pass through the nozzle and to have its end close the delivery end thereof at the same time the said closure is brought into operation.

CHARLES P. ATSON.

Witnesses L. E. HERB, CHAS. E. TUCKER.

'Eoples of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. (2.