US1305289A - Fluid-dispensing apparatus - Google Patents

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C. W. KINCAID. FLUID DISPENSING APPARATUS.

' APPLICATION'FILED NOV, 11, I918. 1,305,289.,

Patented June 3, 1919:

wn/ ATTORNEY t niest era CHARLES W. KINCAID, O F DALLAS, TEXAS,

MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WEST CORPORATION or MASSACHUSETTS.

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ASSIGNOB T0 GILBERT & BARKER SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS,

FLUID-DISPENSING APPARATUS.

Application filed November 11, 1918. Serial No. 261,984.

To all whom. it may cm'ir'cr'n Be it known that 1, Guns. W. Kixlzun a citizen of the United States, residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l luid-Dispensing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention has relation to an improve ment in oil or similar fluid dispensing apparatus, and in such connection it relates more particularly to a device for receiving the drip from the dispensing faucet and comlucting the same to the reservoir.

In apparatus for dispensing oil or suitable fluids from a faucet beneath which a receiving vessel is placed and withdrawn considerable loss and inconvenience has arisen due to the fact that after the faucet is shut off and the vessel withdrawn, the drip from the faucet falls to the ground onto the exterior of the fluid reservoir. It is true that careful employees minimize this loss by permitting the receiving vessel to remain under the faucet until the drip has ceased. But this necessitates loss of time in dispensing the iiuid and does not wholly take care of belated dripping from the faucet. If in an attempt to cure this defect, the reservoir is provided with a drip cup leading directly to the interior of the reservoir, such cup must of necessity be directly under and quite some distance below the faucet and of enlarged area to catch the drip. Such a drip cup permits entrance of dirt or grit to the reservoir when the cup is not covered by the receiving vessel.

The main objectof my invention is to provide a means for catching the drip, which means is normally automatically maintained directly under the faucet and incloses the discharge outlet or spout of said faucet, but can be swung away from said spout when the receiving vessel is placed under the spout, the drip catching means swinging back to normal position as the receiving vessel is removed.

In the preferred embodiment of my inventioma stand pipe is erected on the reservoir adjacent to the dispensing pipe, and is arranged-to support a drip pipe telescoping in the stand pipe and carrying a branch or arm so curved or shaped as. to fit directly under the discharge spout of the faucet on support the drip I away to form pipe 6.

the dispensing pipe. The drip pipe is provided with means preferably two pins '00- acting with the top'of the stand pipe to pipe in the stand pipe and to normally swing the drip pipe with its branch normally under the faucet.

The branch or arm is cut away to receive and inelose the faucet spout. The top of the stand pipe is provided with cam like slots to receive the pins of the drip pipe, said pins riding by gravity down in sa'i slots to swing the pipetoward the faucet.

The nature and scope of my invention will. be more fully understood from the fol lowing description, taken in connection with the acconmanying drawings forming part hereof, in -which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of an oil dispensing apparatus provided with'a drip receiving means embodying the main features of my invention. 7 Fig. 2 is a detail view enlarged of the stand pipe and drip pipe and of the means for supporting the drip pipe on and within 'the stand pipe.

Fig. 3 is a top or plan view of Fig. 2, and v Fig. 4: is a detail of the upper end of the drip pipe.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the fluid reservoir, 2 the dispensing pipe, 3 the dispensing faucet and at themeasuring device, all of well known construction and arrangement. The pipe 2 and its accessories are supported on a plate 5 at the top of the reservoir and this plate 5 is tapped to receive a stand pipe 6.

The top edge or rim of the pipe 6 is cut slots 7. The stand pipe 6 is traversed by a drip pipe 8 telescoping in pipe 6 and extending some distance below the same into reservoir 1. The drip pipe 8 has two diametrically oppositely disposed pins or lugs 9 each arranged to ride in a slot 7 of stand slotted rim of pipe'ti and the pins flof pipe 2% are so arranged as to coact in forcing the pipe 8 as it rides up or down in the pipe 6. The drip pipe 8 is provided with a branch 10 terminating in an upwardly extended portion 11. This vnd portion of branch 10 is cut away as at 12 to slide past and surround the discharge orifice 13 of faucet 3. The cutawayportion two oppositely disposed cam when the z the faucet.

"t0 the r swung toward the faucet so that its out-away upper end incloses the discharge orifice 13 of said faucet. "When, however, a reeeiving vessel is pushed under said faucet the pipe 8 and its braneh are foreeclnwey from the faucet, returning, however, under gravity vessel or can is withdrmvn from The pins 9 maybe covered with antifricizion washers or even rollers if desired to insure "free movementof the pins in the cam slots. Various modifications in arrangement and donstruction of this swing joint may he ree iily devised Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fdescrihed the nature and ob ects of my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Incombination "with a reservoir and a dispensing faucet, a means for catching the drip from the faucet and conveying the drip rvoir, said means supported to gravity under the faucet to inswing by close the same When receiving Vessel is Withdrawn from the in set.

2. A drip coliecting attachment for fl dispensing appe'etus comprising a stand pipe located near the dis-pen zing feiieet, a drip pipe mounted to 31g on the upper rim of the stand pipe, said drip pipe tei in the stand pipe, and a branch e: from the drip pipe and constituting it (11 receiving cup, combined with means on drip pipe coasting: with. means on the up; rim of the stand pipe whereby the drip wipe and brunch are swung by gravity heneeth the faucet, when the faueet is not in use.

3. In a device of the character described a stand pipe, two (linn'ietricziily opposite cam slots out into the upper rim of the nd pipe, a drip pipe extending thro ugh the stand pipe, and pins on the drip pipe arranged to ride in the cam slots of the stand pipe, said pins and cam slots constitutin a means for supporting the drip pipeend tor swinging the on the stand pipe.

in testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

CHARLES W. KINLLAID.

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