Telescoping funnel apparatus

A telescoping funnel apparatus for selectively directing fluid from a container into an engine, the engine including a valve cover having an oil inlet port extending into the engine, said device comprising:

• a funnel having an open top and an open bottom, said funnel having channel extending into through an open bottom of said funnel, and a longitudinal axis extending between said open top and bottom;
• said funnel having a funnel portion and a securing portion;
• said securing portion comprising a generally cylindrical member having a first end, a second end, an outer surface and an inner surface;
• said second end of said securing member being removably insertable in the oil inlet of the valve cover of the engine;
• said outer surface of said securing portion being threaded for permitting threaded coupling to the oil inlet in the valve cover;
• said funnel portion including a plurality of annular members being selectively coupled together such that said funnel portion is collapsible, each of said annular members having an inner surface and an outer surface, each of said annular members having an outer annular lip extending away from said outer surface of each of said annular members, each of said outer annular lips being positioned generally adjacent to a first end of each of said annular members, each of said annular members having an inner annular lip extending away from said inner surface of each of said annular members, said inner annular lips of each of said annular members being positioned generally adjacent to a second end of each of said annular members, said inner annular lip of said annular member positioned generally adjacent to said second end of said funnel portion being mounted on said first end of said securing portion, each of said annular members having a diameter;
• said diameter of each of said annular members being greater than said diameter of an adjacent annular member such that said diameters of said annular members decreases from said open top of said funnel toward said open bottom;
• said plurality of annular members comprising a generally flexible material
• said funnel portion telescoping between an extended position and a retracted position;
• wherein said extended position is characterized by said outer annular lips and said inner lips of adjacent annular member selectively engaging;
• wherein said retracted position is characterized by each of said annular members lying generally within another of said annular members;
• said outer surface of each of said annular members having a generally arcuate shape such that said inner annular lips selectively abuts said outer surface of an adjacent annular member for keeping said funnel in said extended position
• a cover for selectively closing said open top of said funnel when said funnel portion is in said retracted position;
• said cover including a cap portion having a wall and a perimeter member extending away from said wall;
• said cover being removably coupled to said funnel such that said wall of said cover selectively blocks said open top;
• said cover including a securing portion having a generally cylindrical member mounted on a central portion of said wall of said cover, said securing portion having an inner surface and an outer surface;
• said cylindrical member being removably inserted in said securing portion of said funnel when said cover selectively covers said open top of said funnel;
• said outer surface of said securing portion being threaded for being threadedly coupled to said inner surface of said securing portion of said funnel
• said cylindrical member being orientated generally parallel to said perimeter member of said cover;
• a seal for preventing movement of fluid through the inlet port of the valve cover, said seal being mounted on said wall of said cap portion of said cover and positioned generally about said cylindrical member;
• wherein said first end of said securing portion of said funnel selectively abuts said seal when said cover selectively blocks said open top of said funnel;
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• said seal comprising a resiliently flexible material.