Apparatus for receiving a fluid

Abstract

An apparatus for receiving a fluid, such as degraded oil, from an oil filter to be replaced, removably mounted on an engine, during removal of the oil filter, the apparatus including a housing defining a receptacle adapted to receive the fluid; and a securing member mounted on the housing for releasibly attaching the housing to the oil filter in receiving relation to the fluid during removal of the oil filter.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:  
     
         1 . An apparatus for receiving a fluid comprising a housing defining as receptacle adapted to receive said fluid from a source of said fluid; and means for releasibly attaching the housing to said source of said fluid in receiving relation thereto.  
     
     
         2 . The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein the receptacle defined by the housing is adapted substantially to contain the fluid within said receptacle received from said source.  
     
     
         3 . The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein said means for releasibly attaching includes a support assembly adapted releasibly to be secured on said source of said fluid in substantially depending relation with the housing borne thereby wit the receptacle thereof disposed in substantially gravitationally receiving relation to said fluid received from the source of said fluid.  
     
     
         4 . The apparatus of  claim 3  wherein said support assembly includes a member mounted on the housing and dimensioned slidably to be received about said source of said fluid and adapted to be moved thereon to a work position so as to support the housing in depending relation thereon.  
     
     
         5 . The apparatus of  claim 4  wherein said support assembly includes at least one magnet mounted on the housing bounding an opening dimensioned to engage said source of said fluid to retain the housing in depending relation on said source.  
     
     
         6 . The apparatus of  claim 4  wherein said support assembly includes pins engageable with said source and adapted to be moved thereon to a work position so as to support the housing in depending relation thereon.  
     
     
         7 . An apparatus for receiving a fluid, such as degraded oil, from an oil filter to be replaced, removably mounted on an engine, during said removal of the oil filter to be replaced and wherein the oil filter to be replaced has a substantially cylindrical outer surface of substantially predetermined dimensions, the apparatus comprising: 
 A. a container having an interior dimensioned to receive said fluid and being substantially fluid tight to retain said fluid so received therewithin during said removal of the oil filter to be replaced from the engine;    B. a securing member mounted on said container dimensioned releasibly to mount said container on said oil filter to be replaced in gravitational, fluid receiving relation to said oil filter; and    C. means for releasing said fluid from the container for disposal, or other use, subsequent to removal of the oil filter to be replaced from the engine.    
     
     
         8 . The apparatus of  claim 7  in which said oil filter to be replaced is mounted on the engine in depending relation and is so mounted as to be removable from the engine along an axis which is substantially vertical and along a path which is substantially downward along said axis; and wherein said container is substantially cylindrical having an interior dimensioned to be received about said oil filter in a work position in which said outer surface of the oil filter to be replaced and said interior of the container define therebetween a chamber for gravitationally receiving said fluid.  
     
     
         9 . The apparatus of  claim 8  wherein said container mounts a plurality of magnets engageable with the oil filter in slideable relation in movement therealong to a work position in which said magents retain the container in said work position.  
     
     
         10 . The apparatus of  claim 8  wherein said container mounts a plurality of pins engageable in predetermined slots in the oil filter which are so configured as to permit the container to be moved along the oil filter to a work position in which said pins received in said slots retain the container in depending relation in said work position.  
     
     
         11 . The apparatus of  claim 10  wherein said pins received in said slots of the oil filter permit said container to be grasped to apply motion to the oil filter to removed said oil filter.  
     
     
         12 . The apparatus of  claim 10  wherein said releasing means is an upper edge of the container remote from said end wall extending about the oil filter in said work position to form a mouth therewith about the oil filter communicating with said chamber through which said oil, received in the chamber, can be poured therefrom after said removal of the oil filter.