Draining device for oil cans

Claim 1

A DEVICE FOE SIMULTANEOUSLY DRAINING A PLURALITY OF OIL CAMS EACH HAVING A DISPENSING OPENING IN ONE END ADJACENT THE PERIPHERAL EDGE THEREOF, SAID DRAINING DEVICE COMPRISING A RACK DISPOSED IN APPROXIMATELY UPRIGHT POSITION, SAID RACK COMPRISING AN ELONGATED MEMBER TROUGHSHAPED IN CROSS-SECTION HAVING A CENTRAL LENGTHWISE DRAINAGE CHANNEL AND FLARING FLAT SURFACES ON THE RESPECTIVE OPPOSITE SIDES THEREOF AND HAVING PARALLEL FLANGES PROJECTING FORWARDLY FROM THE SIDE MARGINS OF THE FLAT SURFACES, A PLURALITY OF SHELVES IN SPACED RELATION LENGTHWISE OF THE TROUGH MEMBER FOR SUPPORTING INDIVIDUAL CANS ON THEIR SIDES, EACH SHELF BEING TROUGH-SHAPED IN CROSS-SECTION AND HAVING FLARING FLAT SIDE SURFACES, EACH SHELF HAVING EARS PROJECTING RESPECTIVELY FROM THE OPPOSITE EDGES OF THE FLARING SURFACES NEAR ONE END, SAID EARS BEING DISPOSED PARALLEL TO ONE ANOTHER AND HAVING ALIGNED APERTURES THERETHROUGH, SAID EARS BEING DISPOSED BETWEEN AND IN CONTACT WITH THE INNER SURFACES OF THE TROUGH MEMBER FLANGES AND PIVOTED THERETO THROUGH SAID RESPECTIVE APERTURES, SHELVES BEING FOLDABE ABOUT THEIR RESPECTIVE PIVOTS