US435607A - Edmund lunkeniieimer - Google Patents

Description

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B. LUNKENHEIMER.

OIL CUP.

No. 435,607. Patented Sept. 2, 1890.

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EDMUND LUNKENIIEIMER, OF CINCINNATI, ()IIIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE IIUNK- ENIlEIhIER BRASS MANUFALITURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

OIL-CUP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,607, dated September 2, 1890.

Application filed March 10, 1890. Serial No. 3433M. (Noinodol-l To all whom it may concern: ing scutcheon journaled on the upper end of Be it known I, EDMUND LUNKENHEIMER, a the tube E, immediately above and restingon citizen ot the United States, residing at Cinthe cap D, and to prevent the movements of cinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State said scutcheon being com municatcd to and 5 of Ohio, have invented acertain new and useloosening the binding-nut K a flat-sided or ful Improvement in Oil-Cups, of which the D washer was interposed between the scutch following is a description, reference being con and binding-nut around the tube E, onehad to the accompanying drawings. side of the latter being flattened or cut away In its general appearance and construction to snugly fit the hole in the washer. to my improved oil-cup resembles that shown in My presentinvention consists in dispensing reissued Letters Patent No. 10,018, granted with both the swinging scutcheon and D- me March 15, 1887, my present invention rewasher as heretofore employed. To that end lating principally to a novel method of cov- I employ a simple plate M for covering the ering and uncovering the hole through which filling-hole I). This plate is not journaled on r the cup is tilled with oil. the upper end of the tube E, as heretofore,

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side but is rigidly secured to it in any suitable elevation of my improved cup; Fig. 2, a vermanner, in the present instance by having a tical section through its center; Fig. 3, a top flat-sided hole in its inner end which fits the plan view with the valve-stein and bindingcorrespondiugly-shaped upper end of the tube nut removed, and Fig. la corresponding View E in the same manner as a Dwasher. The with the top cap turned to uncover the fillingfilling-hole Ii is covered and uncovered by role. turning the top cap D of the cup, and thereby The body of the cup is composed of a metal movin the hole under and from under the base A, having an exleriorly-threaded shank plate M, the degree of friction against which :5 13 for attaching the cup to the journal to be the cap turns being regulated by the bindingoiled, an upper metal cap D, and an internut K, while the plate M prevents the nut beposed glass cylinder 0, confined between the ing loosened by the cap. The outer edge of cap of the base A and the upper cap D. The the cap is preferably milled to enable it to be base A is provided with an upwardly-extendbetter grasped, and a pin N, coming in cono ing tube E, whose upper end is threaded eX tact with the plate \I, arrests the turning of t-eriorly and projects above the top of the cap the cap when the filling-hole has passed un- I), while its lower end communicates with an der and is covered by said plate. It will thus outlctpassage F, extending down through the be seen that I have simpliticd the construcshank I A valve-stem G, having a lower tion of this class of oil-cups by entirely d'is- 5 threaded portion and pointed end and propensing with one of the separate parts forvided at its upper end with a thumb-piece II merlyemployedintheirconstruction,theplate for turning it, passes down through the tube M taking the place of both the swinging E. The threaded portion of the stem engages scutcheon and D-washer, while the efficiency corresponding threads in the lower portion of of the cup and simplicity of its operation-are 9c 40 the tube E, so that the stem maybe raised or not affected.

lowered by turning it, while its pointed end .Ily invention is not limited to the particu finds a seat in the upper end of the passage lar const ruet ion of the cup shown in the draw- F, just below an orifice I openinginto theinings, its essential novelty consisting in the terior of the cup. Suitable paekil'ig-rings J combination of: the revoluble top with the 5 are interposed between the ends of the eylincovering-plate rigidly secured upon the cender C and the metal caps, and a bindingnut tral tube.

K. screwed upon the upper threaded end of Having thus fully described my invention, the tube E, clamps the parts together. I claim- IIeretofore, as illustratedin mypatentabove 1. In an oil-cup such as described, the com- 1C0 5o referred to, the filling-hole L in the upper cap bination, with the base A, having the central D has been covered and uncovered by a swingtube E rigidly mounted thereon, and the revohaving the filling-orifice therein, and the bindin g-n'nt for holding the cover in place, of the covering-plate interposed between the cover and binding-nut and rigidly secured to the central tube, whereby its rotation with the cover and loosening of the binding-nut are prevented, substantially as described.

EDMUND LUNKENHEIMER.

WVitnesses:

EDWARD REOTOR,

CHARLES BILLoN.

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