US133024A

US133024A - Improvement in stoppers for oil-cans

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Publication number: US133024A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1872-11-12
Anticipated expiration: 1889-11-12

Description

E. C. GODWIN.

improvement in Stoppers for Oil-Cans.

UNITED S'ra'rns EDWARD (J. GODWIN, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,024, dated November 12, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that ,I, EDWARD G. GODWIN, of Norfolk, in. the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented anew and valuable Improvement in Stopper for Oil- Cans; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation of a sectional viewof my invention. Fig. 2-

is a perspective view of the same. A

My invention has relation ,to stoppers for oil-cans; and it consists in the construction and novel arran gementof an internally-flanged tube to receive the cork and prevent leakage, and of a pivoted key to prevent the cork from being accidentally forced out, all substantially as hereinafter more fully described.

Referring to the drawing, A designates a t tapering neck ormouth-piece for an oil-can or other fluid-holding vessel. B represents an annular flange on the inside of said neck, upon which the bottom of the cork rests, and which is designed to produce a tight joint without having to drive the cork far into the neck. This flange may be properly bent on the lower edge of a tubular lining, a, placed within the mouth of the neck A, and secured bybending down itsupper edge over the edge of said mouth,as shown. In this way the mouth of the neck is strengthened. Q designates the. cork, having the convex metallic cap 1) placed on top,and secured by the rivet and washer cl (1. E designates a tubular socket attached itothe side of the neck A and holding an L- over above said cap. When the cork is insorted in the neck the key is turned around to the position shown in the drawing and springs into a concave depression, 0, in the center of the cap, thus securing the cork tightly in place and preventing it from being forced out by the overturning of the vessel or other accident. By turning back the key the cork may be withdrawn, but will be held by the key in such a manner as to prevent its being lost or mislaid. Shoulders b b are formed on the ends of the key to hold it in place.

\Vhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the key F, swinging on a vertical or nearly vertical axis, with the cork (l and the neck A, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the internally-flan ged neck A with the cork O and key F, substantially as specified.

3. The cork 0 having the indented cap D and eye g, the pivoted key F, socket E, and internally-flanged neck A, combined substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim. the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

EDIVARI) CAMP GODIVIW.

Witnesses:

JOHN M. GIBBS, RICHARD H. PARKER.