US372160A

US372160A - Oil-can

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Publication number: US372160A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-10-25
Anticipated expiration: 1904-10-25

Description

(No model.)

- J. MARKER.

OIL CAN.

No. 372,160. Patented Oct. 25, 1887.

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UNITED` STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES MARKER, OF UNION CITY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO PETER LUN D, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

OIL-CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,160, dated October 25, 188'7. l A Application filed January 22, 1887. Serial No. 225.186. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES MARKER, a citizen of Denmark, residing at Union City, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have eans, hereinafter set forth and explained.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l shows a central vertical section of an oil-can embodying my improvements, Fig. 2 shows the spring and its adjusting mechanism detached from the oil-can. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the same on the line :v x in'Fig. 2.

Like letters refer to like parts in all the figures.

In the constructionV of my improvement shown I make the body A, the bottom B, and the spout C of the oil`can in the usual and ordinary manner, lthe spout C being secured to the can-body A by means of a screw-thread, H, the shape of the can not being material to the construction of the improvement I combine therewith. I then make a spiral spring, F, of suitable size or diameter to readilybe passed through the screw-threaded opening Hin the top of the can, the lower end of which spring is adapted to rest and press upon the central portion ofthe inside of the can-bottom B. The upper end of this spring F, I secure to a vertical screw-threaded rod, E, which is long enough to extend up some distance into the spout C when it is in place on the can. On

A this screw-threaded 'rod E, I place a cone, D

D, constructed, preferably, in two sections, substantially as shown. The sections of this cone D D are centrally hollowed out, leaving substantially as illustrated in Fig. 2, the upper ends, d', of the cone fitting the rod sufciently close only as to act as aguide for the upper end of the rod E, while the lower ends, d d, are preferably brought to a sharp edge, leaving a round 0r angular opening between them of just sufficient size so that the sharp edges d d will enter the threads of the rod E and operate as a nut, so that the cone D D may be screwed up or down on the threaded rod E for adjustment. If desired, however, the cone D D may be madevin a single piece and a screw-thread cut in the lower end thereof, instead of the sectional cone having 'the sharp edges d d thereon, either form of construction operating well.

In operation the spout C is removed from the can and the cone D D inserted therein, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Therod E is then screwed down, so that when the spout C is replaced in the can the lower end of the springF will press rmly against the inside of the can-bottom B,

so that when pressure is applied to the out- .readily be adjusted by means of the screw-` threaded rod E to fit and operate in differentsized cans without it being necessary to make a special size for each sized can, and can thus readily be removed from one can and adjusted to another of different size, if desired.

I am aware that springs operating on oil-can bottoms have heretofore been used; but I am not aware of any such device or devices adapted to be inserted into and removed from an oilcan through the spout-opening thereof, or to be adjusted to lit different-sized cans, as mine is.

Having thus described my invention, so as to enable others to construct and use the same, what I claim as new, and desire tov secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. In an oil-can, the combination of the canbottom B, the spiral spring F, operating on the inside thereof, and its screw-threaded supporting-rod E, with the sectional cone D D, ,operating on said rod and adapted to be inserted in operating on the inside of an oil-can bottom,

the lower end of the spout C and removed from In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the can through the spout-opening, substanpresence of two witnesses. tially as and for the -purpose seb forth.

2. The combination, in a support for n spring JAMES MARKER.

of the screw-threaded rod E, with a cone, D D, ViLnesses: adapted to t into the spout'J G, substantially SIMON HUssELBAcH, as and for the purpose set forth. FEED. RUESCHER.