Oil can
{{Short description|Can holding oil for lubricating machines}}
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An oil can (oilcan or oiler)[https://books.google.com/books?id=TAfiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA291 A Book of Tools: Being a Catalogue of Tools, Supplies, Machinery, and Similar Goods], Chas. A. Strelinger & Co., Detroit, Michigan, 1895, pp. 291–4 (from Google Books) is a can that holds oil (usually motor oil) for lubricating machines. An oil can can also be used to fill oil-based lanterns. An occupation, referred to as an oiler, 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. Around this time, oil cans frequently leaked and contributed to fires.[https://books.google.com/books?id=dCQAAAAAMAAJ&pg=22 The Engineers' review], Volume 16, W.W. Benham, 1905, p. 22 (from Google Books) In 1957, aluminium oil cans were introduced, produced by companies like the American Can Company.[https://books.google.com/books?id=xq7kAAAAMAAJ&q=%22oil+can%22+manufacturer Petroleum week], Volume 9, 1959, p. 82 (from Google Books)
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
Oil cans come in a variety of designs, from a simple cylindrical disposable can opened with a churchkey (or with a combined spout-opener), to a hemisphere base and tapered straight spout to more intricate designs with handles and push-buttons, to the modern plastic bottle. In 2000, the 3-In-One Oil can was redesigned to look like the early 20th century design (hemisphere base with tapered straight spout).[http://dfenginc.com/hdpe_oil_bottle.htm HDPE oil bottle squeezes another prize], Packaging Digest, 11 November 2000 (from dfenginc.com, retrieved 19 July 2010)[http://www.allbusiness.com/plastics-rubber/plastics-product-manufacturing/472481-1.html New plastic oil can puts WD-40 "over the rainbow".], Food & Drug Packaging, Lisa McTigue Pierce, 1 March 2000 (from AllBusiness.com, retrieved 19 July 2010)
See also
- Aladdin
- Can collecting
- Oil Can delay, an audio effect
- Oil-canning:
- a wavy surface condition on roll-formed metal sheets[https://www.arconic.com/aap/north_america/catalog/pdf/oil_canning_policy.pdf Alcoa Architectural Products – Oil Canning Policy] arconic.com, retrieved 27 June 2017
- a metalforming drawing process
References
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110307151357/http://www.stationarysteamengines.co.uk/stia/oilcans.htm The Sutcliffe Midget Oilcan], miniature oil cans made by Sutcliffe Pressings for toy/miniature steam engines, stationarysteamengines.co.uk, retrieved 19 July 2010
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