US127092A

US127092A - Improvement in transportation oil-cans

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Publication number: US127092A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1872-05-21
Anticipated expiration: 1889-05-21

Description

J. C. MOORE.

Transportation Oil- Cari.

Patented May 21, 1 -872.

' through the casing,

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

JAMES C. MOORE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE BOOTH, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRANSPORTATION OIL-CANS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,092, dated May 21, 1872.

a Specification describing an Improved Transportation-Oan, invented by JAMES C. MOORE, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Improved Transportation-Gan.

My invention consists of a case or can arranged within a casing, and having an opening at the top for the introduction of liquids, and at the bottom a valve or cock, the discharge valve of which projects downward all substantially as described hereafter, so as to avoid the inconvenient necessity of, and in some cases the danger incurred by, tilting the can when its contents have to be withdrawn.

Figure 1 is an exterior perspective view of my improved tra-n sportation-can for petroleum, varnishes, and other fluids 5 and Fig. 2, a vertical section of the same.

Vessels or cans for containingburning-fluids, oils, varnishes, tended for transportation, have commonly been made of tinned plates, and of rectangular shape, such vessel being contained in a box or covering of wood. These cans had but one opening at the top, through which the vessel was both filled and emptied; hence'it became necessary, when a portion of the contents was required for use, to tilt the can, an operation not only tedious, but under many circumstances dangerous. The object ofm y invention, which I will now proceed to describe, is to obviate these defects.

I make a tin can, A, of the ordinary quadrangular form, and clothe it with the usual wooden box or casing B. The top of the can A is provided with a tubular projection, a, which projects nearly through the top of the box, and which is furnished with a cork, b, or other suitable stopper. A, near the bottom of the same, I secure a cook or valve,

d, the discharge-branch e of which projects through or very nearly through the bottom of the box. The valve of the cock is controlled by a handle, f, which passes h, in front of the box, the hanthrough a slot,

&c., especially such as are in- To one side of the can dle, as well as the valve, being such that when the latter is closed the former will occupy a.

or no impediment to this packing, and when one of the cans is placed on a shelf, in a retail store, for instance, so that the front portion of the can should overhang the edge of the shelf sufficiently to permit the free flow of the fluids from the dischargebranch of the cook, the fiuidmay be drawn 0d at pleasure without resorting to the tilting of the can, and without incurring the danger which may result from such tilting. It is not essential that the valve should be furnished with a permanent handle; the cock may be so constructed that the valve can be operated by a detachable key intro: duced through a small opening in the box, in which case the cover i maybe dispensed with. It is essential, however, in carrying out my in vention, that there should be no protuberance on the sides, top, or bottom of the cans to interfere with the close packing of the same together, and that the discharge-branch of the cook should be at the bottom of the box in the manner described.

I claim as my invention A transportation-can arranged within a casing, and having an opening at the top .for the introduction of the fluids, and at the bottom a valve or cock, within the case, and the discharge-branch of which projects downward, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses. I

JAMES C. MOORE.

Witnesses:

WM. A. STEEL, JOHN K. RUPEu'rUs.