US653944A - Oil or other vessel and receptacle. - Google Patents

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u L. E. BULTEZ. UIL 0B OTHER VESSEL AND REGEPTACLE.

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OIL OR OTHER VESSEL AND RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 653,944, dated July 17, 1900.

Application filed January 18, 1900. Serial No. 1,872. (No model.)

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Beit known that I, Louis EUGNE BULTEZ, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at Varenne St. Hilaire, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Oil or other Vessels and Receptacles, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in France, dated June 28, 1899, under No. 290,357, and have applied for Letters Patent in England under No.25,581, dated December 27, 1899,) of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in oil and other vessels, and especially to that portion which forms a tap or closing device, and is especially applicable for oilcans.

In order to render the following explanation clearer,the accompanying drawings illustrate, by Way of example only, a device constructed according to this invention and adapted to an oil can or vessel.

Figure l represents the tap open-z'. e., in such a position that the receptacle can be emptied of its contents. Fig. la is a section of the handle on line A B, Fig. l. Fig. 2 illustrates the same tap closed. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 illustrate in detail the different parts constituting the tap.

The tap consists, mainly, of a tubular body d, provided with an orifice b in its side. This tubular part is xed by any suitable means to the body of the vessel for which the tap is intended, as by screwing or soldering at d, Over this tubular part fits a sleeve or ring f, preferably passing over a narrowed portion e of the former, which sleeve is provided with an outwardly-projecting spout g. The sleeve f is also provided with a passage 7L in the direction of its axis, the use of which will be explained hereunder. The spout g can be made to communicate, by means of a boring t' in the wall of the sleeve f, with the interior of the inner tubular body ct through its oriiice b.

The tubular body a is provided with a screwthread at its upper end j, into which a cap 7c is screwed. The latter may be rendered immovable by any suitable means-as, for instance, by means of a safety-plate. The cap 7e is provided With a passage or perforation Z near its edge, adapted to coincide under certain conditions with the passage h in the sleeve. f

Vhen the parts as described above are combined under the conditions indicated and the sleeve f is so turned that the spout g occupies the position indicated in Fig. 2, its oriice t' does not coincide with the orifice h in the tubular body and the liquid contained Within the vessel cannot be poured out through the spout g. If, on the contrary, the spoilt g is turned through an angle of, say, one hundred and eighty degrees, so that the two orifices e and h coincide, the liquid contained in the vessel can pass out by way of the spout g. The air which it is necessary to admit to the vessel in order to be able to pour out the liquid enters through the perforations l and h in the cap and sleeve, which coincide in this position of the spout, and thence passes preferably through the hollow handle min the interior of the vessel, Fig. l. This hollow handle m, which may be formed of a simple bent Atube or half-tubep,Fig. la, covered by a coverplate q, the ends of which are folded over wires r, is fastened at one end to the tubular body ct at c, Where it is bored to communicate with the passage h and the other end to the top of the can or vessel. As will be seen from the drawings, the air-conduit m serves here as the handle of the vessel. According to this arrangement of parts the spout itself acts as the handle of the tap, an arrangement which in itself greatly simplifies the construction of the apparatus.

In order to secure the vessel against illicit refilling through the spout, there may be placed in the lower part of the interior of the tubular body a a plate s, provided in its center with a hole, against which a ball tmay be lightly pressed bya spring u. Both the ball and the spring may be placed Within a perforated block or casing fr. When the vessel is tilted, the ball will leave its seat, and thereby permit the pouring out of the liquid, While when the vessel' is inl` a perpendicularposition the ball Will return to its seat, rendering it impossible to introduce any liquid into the vessel.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A tap for oil and other vessels, comprising a tubular body provided with a lateral ori- IOO oe and a screw-thread at its upper end, a rotatable sleeve jonrnaled on the orieed portion of said tubular body, and provided with a spout, said sleeve having, at one side, a longitudinal passage, a screw-cap provided with a perforation at one side, said cap being screwed onto the threaded upper end of the tubular body, and said perforation being vadapted to be set in line with the said passage in the sleeve, and a hollow air-conducting handle for Connection at one end with the interior of the vessel and at the other end adapted to communicate with the said passage in the sleeve through a bore or hole in the tubular body, substantially as set forth. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS EUGNE BULTEZ. Witnesses:

EMILE LEDRET, EDWARD P. MACLEAN.

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