Anoil can(oilcanoroiler)[1]is acanthat holds oil (usuallymotor oil) forlubricatingmachines. An oil can can also be used to filloil-based lanterns.An occupation, referred to as anoiler,can use an oil can (among other tools) to lubricate machinery.
Oil cans were made by companies like Noera Manufacturing Company and Perfection in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1]Around this time, oil cans frequently leaked and contributed to fires.[2]In 1957,aluminiumoil cans were introduced, produced by companies like theAmerican Can Company.[3]
Rocanville, Saskatchewan,Canada is home to a large-scale oil can industry because of the Symons Oiler factory which produced oil cans during World War II.
Design
editOil cans come in a variety of designs, from a simple cylindrical disposable can opened with achurchkey(or with a combinedspout-opener), to ahemispherebase and tapered straight spout to more intricate designs withhandlesandpush-buttons,to the modernplastic bottle.In 2000, the3-In-One Oilcan was redesigned to look like the early 20th century design (hemisphere base with tapered straight spout).[4][5]
See also
edit- Aladdin
- Can collecting
- Oil Can delay,an audio effect
- Oil-canning:
- a wavy surface condition on roll-formed metal sheets[6]
- ametalforming drawing process
References
edit- ^abA Book of Tools: Being a Catalogue of Tools, Supplies, Machinery, and Similar Goods,Chas. A. Strelinger & Co., Detroit, Michigan, 1895, pp. 291–4 (fromGoogle Books)
- ^The Engineers' review,Volume 16, W.W. Benham, 1905, p. 22 (from Google Books)
- ^Petroleum week,Volume 9, 1959, p. 82 (from Google Books)
- ^HDPE oil bottle squeezes another prize,Packaging Digest,11 November 2000 (from dfenginc, retrieved 19 July 2010)
- ^New plastic oil can puts WD-40 "over the rainbow".,Food & Drug Packaging,Lisa McTigue Pierce, 1 March 2000 (fromAllBusiness,retrieved 19 July 2010)
- ^Alcoa Architectural Products – Oil Canning Policyarconic, retrieved 27 June 2017
External links
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- The Sutcliffe Midget Oilcan,miniature oil cans made bySutcliffe Pressingsfor toy/miniature steam engines, stationarysteamengines.co.uk, retrieved 19 July 2010