US941210A - Faucet. - Google Patents

Description

T. 0. THOMPSON.

FAUGETI APPLIOATION FILED JULY 2a. 1908.

Patented N0v.'23,1909.

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THOMAS OLIVER THOMPSON, OF ZACAPA, GUATEMALA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23; 1909.

Application filed July 25, 1908. Serial No. 445,374.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS O. THOMP- SON, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Zacapa, in Guatemala, Central America, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Faucets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of my invention is to provide novel details of construction for a faucet, which adapt it for a secure but removable attachment thereof upon the side wall of a plate metal receptacle, for a removal of the contents of said receptacle from time to time as occasion may require.

A further object of the invention is to provide means carried by the faucet, for enabling the formation of a suitable opening in the side wall of a plate metal can, for the connection of the improved faucet therewith.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described and defined in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a sectional side view of the lower portion of an oil can, and a partly sectional side view of the improved faucet, showing novel details thereof that secure the faucet liquid-tight on the can; Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view substantially on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1, seen in the direction of the arrows in said view; Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view, substantially on the line 3-3 in Fig. 1; Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a can body, and a like view of a split threaded nipple and rubber washer thereon, which are details of the invention; Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view of a half section of the improved nipple, and of an integral laterally projected clamping flange thereon; and Fig. 6 is a sectional side view of a portion of an oil can, and a side View of the improved faucet, showing the application of an integral punch carried by the discharge nozzle of the faucet, for forming a suitable aperture in the can to receive the faucet securing means.

Usually shipping cans for the transport of refined coal oil, are liable to leak where a means for the removal of the liquid contents of the can is placed thereon, and it has been found that for safety and economy, it is advantageous to seal the filled cans permanently, and let the retail dealer or a person who purchases an original package of the refined oil, provide an attachable faucet for the safe removal of the liquid contents as may be desired.

The improvement which will be described, affords means for properly puncturing a wall of a can, and a novel securing device that will clamp the receiving end of a faucet liquid-tight over the puncture, in a socure and durable manner, which will also permit the easy removal and re-use of the faucet when the can has been emptied.

In the drawings, 10 indicates an oil can of rectangular form, such as is generally used in the packing of refined coal oil for transportation, this shape of the can economizing space when a number of the cans are boxed for shipment.

The body 11 of the faucet is as usual formed to receive a plug valve 12, shown by full and dotted lines in Fig. 1, the forward portion or nozzle 11 of the body, being bent downward for discharging liquid therefrom. Rearward of the plug valve 12, the body of the faucet is diametrically enlarged and rendered cylindrical, as shown at 11 and terminates in a radial flange a. The longitudinal axial passage that is formed in the valve body 11, is counter-bored at the rear end thereof, and the defining wall of this enlarged bore 6 is threaded for the reception of the improved securing means, which is constructed as follows: An exteriorlythreaded nipple, formed in two similar sections 13, is so relatively proportioned in diameter as to fit closely in the counterbore b of the enlarged end 11 when screwed therein. Upon the corresponding ends of the sections 13, a flange 14 is formed on each section, and projects at a right angle from the convex side thereof, as is clearly shown for one section in Fig. 5, and it will be noted in Fig. 1 that a short neck (Z is formed on each section 13 at its junction with the laterally bent flange 14. On the nozzle portion 11 of the faucet body 11, a short square punch 11 is formed, which projects from the convex surface of the bend on the nozzle, as shown in Figs. 1 and 6, said punch having a pyramidal formation 0 on its free end.

In service, there is an aperture 6 formed in the side or end wall 10 of a can body 10, near the bottom thereof, by driving the pointed end 0 of the punch 11 into said wall at a selected point, and then forcing the body of the punch thereinto, as represented in Fig. 6.

It will be noted that when the aperture 6 is finished and the punch removed, the circular aperture will have divergent wings 6, formed on the inwardly-extended portions of the sheet metal displaced by the punch, and said flanges or wing will curve away from each other, due to the action of the pyramidal portion of the punch.

The diameter of the punch body is so proportioned, that the aperture formed by it will permit the successive insertion of the flanges 1% therethrough into the can body in opposite directions, and as indicated in Fig. l, the necks (Z afford space for the reception of a heavy rubber joint washer 15 between the rear face of the radial flange a and the surface of the side wall of the can.

The threaded surfaces on the nipple sections 13 are now pressed toward each other, so as to cause their flat sides to have contact with each other, which will permit the faucet body to receive the nipple in its threaded counterbore. The faucet body is now rotated, so as to screw the flange a forcibly against the washer or joint ring 15, which will pull the flanges 1% against the bent wings e and flatten the latter upon the inner side of the can wall.

It will be seen that when the faucet body lias been screwed sufliciently toward the joint ring or washer 15 for a proper compression of the latter, the faucet will be secured liquid-tight upon the can body, and afford means for the removal of liquid contents therefrom.

Obviously, the faucet by a reversed rotatable movement of its body, may be removed from the can when the latter is empty, and may be re-used several times if the plug valve remains liquid-tight.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A faucet comprising a body having its one end internally threaded and provided with an external lateral annular flange, a sectional nipple having a threaded portion for engaging the internal threads of the body and laterally extending clamping fingers, said nipple having a reduced neck forming a shoulder between the neck and the threaded portion, a packing ring encircling the neck and resting against the shoulder and the "flange of the body, and a punch on the faucet whose diameter is equal to the diameter of the neck of the nipple and adapted for making an opening in the container for receiving the nipple.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS OLIVER THOMPSON.

Witnesses WVILLIAM OWEN, F. Bo'rrn.

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