US1080574A - Fountain-brush. - Google Patents

Description

W. F. MOSS.

FOUNTAIN BRUSH.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR.15. 1912.

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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WILLIAM F. MOSS, OF BICHILVIQND, TEXAS.

FOUNTAIN-BRUSH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 15, 1912.

Patented Dee. 9, 1913. sei-m1 No. 684,042.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM F. Moss.

citizen of the United States, residing at` Richmond, in the county of Fort .Bend and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fountain- Brushes, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to improvements in oil-applying devices, more particularly devices of this character adapted to coat tools of various kinds with oil to protect them from corrosion, and has for one of its objects to improve the construction and increase the efficiency and utility of a device of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character wherein means are provided for holding bristles firmly in position and through which the oil is caused to pass when the device is reversed in position.

l/Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described, and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved device; Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2*?, of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a cup or receptacle for the oil and is represented conventionally at 10, and provided with a discharge opening preferably surrounded by a threaded rim 11. Fitting over the threaded rim is a threaded cap 12 in which a tubular member represented as a whole at 13 is supported. The tubular member is connected to the outer end of the cap intermediate its ends so that a portion of the tube extends into the receptacle and the remainder extends beyond the cap. The portion of the tube which projects into the receptacle is preferably formed in flattened cylindrical shape as shown at 14 in Fig. 3, and the portion externally of the cap flattened to a still greater extent whereby the outer end of the tube is formed oblong with rounded ends as represented at 15 in Figs. 2 and 3. Fitting within the tubular member 13, are bristles 1G, the bristles completely filling the tube and projecting beyond the same to form a brush, as shown. The inner end of the tubular member 14: is closed as represented at 17, and provided with a plurality of apertures 18 relatively near the closed outer end of the cap. By this simple means the portions ofthe bristles within the tubular member are firmly compressed, while the portions externally of the tubular member are permitted to assume a brush-like form. The apertures 18 being located near the cap 12, or at; the upper end of the receptacle 10, the oil will not [low into the brush unless the receptacle be (werturned and the oil will continue to [low so long as the receptacle is retained in its o\\'erturned position and, supply the brush with the oil and cause the same to flow slowly through the compressed bristles. then the receptacle is returned to its standing position, the oil will cease to flow.

The improved device may be constructed of any suitable material and of any suitable size, and will be found very convenient for applying oil to various surfaces, but, as before stated, is designed more particularly for applying a thin coating of oil to tools of various kinds to preserve them from corrosion.

The bottom of the receptacle being unsupported between the edges may be readily compressed to produce pressure upon the contents of the receptacle and cause it to flow through the apertures 1S and into the bristles in the same manner as the oil is caused to flow from an ordinary oil can. This is an important feature of applicants device and materially increases its elliciency and utility.

Having thus described the invent-ion, what is claimed as new is:

1. The combination with a receptacle having a discharge opening, of a tubular member closed at its inner end, means for supporting said tubular member' within the discharge opening and with its closed end extending into the receptacle, said tubular member being provided with a plurality of perforations formed in that portion immediately within the receptacle and spaced from the closed end, and a plurality of bristles seated in said member and bearing by their inner ends against the closed end thereof and extending beyond the open end of the same.

2. The combination with a receptacle having,` a discharge opening, of a cap closing said opening and carrying a tubular member which, When the cap is in place, extends partially Within the receptacle and partially Without the same, the inner end of said tubular member being closed, a plurality of perforations formed in that portion of the receptacle,

tubular member which extends Within the and a plurality of bristles carried by the tubular member and extending beyond its free end.

In testimony whereof, affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM F. MOSS.

TWitnesses:

J, C. FLOREA, C. RICE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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