Oil container
OwnerJohn I. Lewis, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
An oil container includes a container structure having a spout mounted to a top wall of the container, with the spout tangentially aligned to a forward wall, a groove directed into the spout, with a pull string directed through the groove, the string including a first end secured to a slot slidably mounted to a second end wall of the container, with a second end of the pull string mounted to a foil seal over the spout. In this manner, displacement of the slide along the second end wall of the container displaces the foil seal permitting fluid flow from the container when in an inverted orientation preventing spillage from the container.
Claims3
An oil container, comprising,
- spaced first and second side walls, a bottom wall, and a top wall, a first end wall and a second end wall, and
- a spout mounted to the top wall in communication interiorly of the container, with the spout having a spout lid removably mounted relative to the spout, and
- a spout seal, with the spout having a spout free distal end, with the free distal end including a periphery, and the spout seal mounted to the periphery, the spout seal having a flexible projecting flange, and the projecting flange including a pull string, the pull string extending along an exterior surface of the spout, with the pull string secured to the projecting flange permitting removal of the seal by tensioning of the pull string relative to the projecting flange, and
- the second end wall includes a second end wall opening directed into the second end wall below the spout, and the second end wall further includes a second end wall interior wall extending laterally beyond the second end wall opening in surrounding relationship relative to the second end wall opening in sealing engagement to an interior surface of the second end wall, and a slide plate slidably mounted between the second end wall interior wall and the second end wall, the spout having a spout groove, the spout groove linearly aligned with the slide plate, and the spout exterior surface tangentially aligned with the second end wall, with the pull string directed along the spout groove, and a second end wall channel directed through the second end wall in communication with the second end wall opening, with the pull string directed through the second end wall channel from the spout groove, and secured to the slide plate with the second end wall opening, whereupon displacement of the slide plate within the second end wall opening displaces the spout seal relative to the spout.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.