Abstract: An oil pan structure for an internal combustion engine includes: a small-depth portion having a bottom that is positioned at a high level; a large-depth portion formed adjacent to the small-depth portion and having a bottom that is positioned at a lower level than that of the small-depth portion, said large-depth portion defining an interior space in which an oil suction member is housed; and a ridge portion that connects a vertical wall that forms the large-depth portion with a bottom wall that forms the small-depth portion. The ridge portion includes a first connecting portion that connects the vertical wall of the large-depth portion with the bottom wall of the small-depth portion via a curved surface, and a second connecting portion that connects the vertical wall of the large-depth portion with the bottom wall of the small-depth portion at a position lower than that of the first connecting portion.

Abstract: An oil pan (130) comprises an oil pan cover (131) storing oil in an internal space and an oil pan separator (132) positioned in the internal space. The oil pan separator (132) is positioned so as to divide the internal space into a first chamber (30a), which has an oil strainer (41) at its bottom, and a second chamber (30b), which is adjacent to the first chamber (30a). The oil pan separator (132) includes a slope plate (132c) for capturing return oil that flows back from a cylinder block (20a) to an oil pan (130). Part of the captured return oil flows to the second chamber (30b) via a communication hole (132f) that is provided in the slope plate (132c). The remaining captured return oil flows into the first chamber (30a). This ensures that the oil level in the second chamber (30b) is higher than that in the first chamber (30a). Therefore, when a solenoid valve (133) opens at the end of a warm-up operation, the oil in the second chamber (30b) flows into the first chamber (30a).

Abstract: An oil pan structure for an internal combustion engine includes an oil pan and a baffle plate provided inside the oil pan having a storage section for collecting oil that is returned after circulating through the engine to lubricate and cool the engine. The storage section has a generally flat bottom with a generally rectangular shape as viewed in a plan view, and front, left, and right side walls that extend upward from the bottom. The storage section also has an oil drain port through which the oil in the storage section is drained into the oil pan. The opening of oil drain port is near and faces a wall of the oil pan.

Abstract: An oil pan separator 132 is disposed so as to divide a space within an oil pan 130 into a first chamber 30a and a second chamber 30b. The oil pan separator 132 has a protrusion 132b formed at a low position in such a manner that a portion of the first chamber 30a protrudes into the second chamber 30b. A protrusion upper-plate 132b1, which serves as an upper end portion of the protrusion 132b, is provided with an oil feed valve 138, which is a one-way valve, for allowing substantially only outflow of oil from the first chamber 30a to the second chamber 30b.

Abstract: An oil pan is provided for an internal combustion engine. The oil pan includes, but is not limited to a base part configured to form an oil sump and a suction channel that opens into the oil sump through an opening. The oil pan also includes, but is not limited to a nose in a region of the opening for at least partly covering a cross section of the suction channel in a horizontal direction of flow.

Abstract: An oil pan is disposed in a lower part of an internal combustion engine and has an oil pan body divided, with respect to a vertical direction, into oil pan elements having bottom walls respectively of different depths. A baffle plate divides the interior of the oil pan body into a plurality of spaces at the boundary of adjacent ones of the bottom walls to regulate the flow of oil between the adjacent ones of spaces. The baffle plate is divided with respect to a vertical direction into a plurality of baffle plate elements. The baffle plate elements are formed integrally with the oil pan elements, respectively. The oil pan for an internal combustion engine can be manufactured by reduced time and reduced labor at a low manufacturing cost.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an oil pan for an internal combustion engine with an integrally formed tube assembly for transporting high pressure oil from an oil pump to an oil filter and back. The oil pan uses a welded tube assembly including two tubes which are placed inside the oil pan during permanent mold casting. The two tubes are individually bent, then welded together, and finally leak tested. As part of the casting process, an end of the tube assembly for the oil pump is printed to a cope of the tool. Another end of the tube assembly for the oil filter includes a threaded fitting screwed into the tube assembly. The fitting prints into the cope of the tool.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for adjusting the orientation of a lubricant-retaining basin is disclosed. The apparatus includes a cabinet configured for retaining a vacuum pump and a lubricant-retaining basin. A rotatable member engages the lubricant-retaining basin and elevates the back end of the basin to permit drainage of lubricant from the front end of the basin.

Abstract: An oil pan is provided with an oil pan separator that partitions a first chamber that communicates with a moving part inside a cylinder block and a second chamber outside the first chamber. A communicating hole is provided to a bottom panel of the oil pan separator. The communicating hole is shielded from a strainer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an oil pan arrangement for an internal-combustion engine including a cover part, a bottom part for the oil pan and at least one suction pipe which opens out into an suction region of the bottom part. The suction pipe is connected to the suction region and the bottom part in one piece manner. The suction region comprises a wall portion which incorporates at least one suction window.

Abstract: A transmission oil pan assembly includes an oil pan matable with a transmission case to at least partially define a transmission interior space, and an accessing component for accessing an interior component located inside of the transmission interior space from outside of the transmission interior space. The oil pan is formed with structure adapted to support the accessing component. The oil pan may be formed with an opening adapted to receive the accessing component. A method of selecting an oil pan from an inventory of oil pans with differently disposed accessing components is also provided.

Abstract: A fluid reservoir assembly having a pan defining a drain opening and a plug disposed therein is disclosed. The pan includes a pair of ramps disposed on an inner surface thereof adjacent the drain opening. The plug includes a pair of wings in engagement with the ramps. The ramps increase in height relative to the inner surface of the pan along a first direction of rotation about the central axis. The plug is drawn into sealing engagement with an outer surface of the pan by rotating the plug in the first direction of rotation about the central axis thereby moving the wings up the ramps. The pan includes at least one stop to prevent over-rotation of the plug. The ramps define a recess to secure the wings in a closed position.

Abstract: A two part oil drain plug assembly facilitates the draining of oil or fluid from a sump, and its use prevents the threads of the sump, which may be an automotive oil pan, from becoming stripped or damaged. Further, the device aids in the determination of the physical condition (wear) of the engine, transmission or the like to which the sump is attached, by attracting metal particles to an isolated magnet on the drain plug.

Abstract: The drip mat is a durable, modular fluid collection mat that rests on the ground in high-traffic areas where vehicles move slowly or stop for extended periods of time. The mat has at least one collection block that has a floor and at least one sidewall extending around the periphery of the floor to define a well for collecting fluids that drip from the vehicle. A grill is disposed over the well. The floor has sloping panels that direct the fluids to drain holes, where the fluids can be drawn out of the mat by an expandable container that is connected to the drain holes by a flexible hose. By connecting multiple straight and curved collection blocks together, the mat can cover different size areas. The mat has ramps on either end of the collection block(s) to allow vehicles to ride upon it, and has areas for logos and advertising.

Abstract: A transmission fluid sump for an automotive transmission comprising a reservoir portion, a threaded extension on the reservoir portion and a fill pipe threadably connected to the extension. A closure member seals a central opening in the extension independently of the fill pipe, thereby avoiding overlapping torque windows for the fill pipe and the closure member while providing a single leak flow path for the transmission fluid.

Abstract: A waste oil container includes an oil catch pan for collecting oil that leaks from a parked vehicle and a leash for attaching the oil catch pan to the vehicle. The oil catch pan includes a bottom, a surrounding wall structure, and an open top. The oil catch pan is integrally formed of a crush-resistant material that is self-supporting, is sufficiently flexible to collapse without breaking when crushing force is applied, and is sufficiently resilient to return to an original condition when the crushing force is removed. The oil catch pan is sized to fit underneath a parked vehicle to collect oil leaking from the vehicle and can be stored within the vehicle without unleashing the oil catch pan when the vehicle is being driven.

Abstract: In an engine wherein an upper end portion of a casing of an oil strainer disposed within an oil pan is supported on a crank case side and a suction port is formed in a lower end of the casing whose lower portion is formed in a funnel shape, the oil strainer is supported firmly while preventing an increase in weight and size of the engine and an increase in the number of parts. A plurality of vertically long plate-like strainer support portions are integrally formed on a lower side face of a casing of an oil strainer for abutting against and for being supported by the bottom of an oil pan.

Abstract: A spilled fuel containment apparatus including a drive-on substrate and at least one side that is substantially vertically extendable. The at least one side being substantially fluidically sealed with the substrate when the at least one side is substantially vertical.

Abstract: An oil change equipment includes an oil barrel, an oil-collecting pan, and a vacuum oil-pumping device; the oil barrel has an inlet thereon, and a control valve connected thereto; an oil conduit is joined to the oil inlet of the oil barrel at one end, and connected to a pipe communicating with a containing space in the oil-collecting pan; a supporting rod is secured on top of the oil barrel; the vacuum oil-pumping device is connected to the control valve of the oil barrel; therefore, the oil collecting pan can be supported on the upper end of the supporting rod secured on top of the oil barrel, thus allowing drained oil received in the oil collecting pan to flow into the oil barrel directly; or alternatively, the oil collecting pan can be positioned apart from the supporting rod to receive drained oil.

Abstract: An oil pan structure for a four-cycle engine, in which oil stored in an oil pan is sucked up by an oil pump through an oil strainer and in which oil lubrication is performed by supplying the sucked oil again to each of parts of the engine to be lubricated. In this oil pan structure, a bottom portion of the oil pan is formed nearly like a bowl by being swelled to a side, which is opposite to a crankcase, from an attaching peripheral portion, to which a crankcase lower-part is attached, toward a central portion thereof. An oil pan cover covering a part of the bottom portion is separately provided thereon. Oil passages and are formed from the oil pan cover and the bottom portion. An oil introduction opening portion and an oil suction opening portion 82 are formed in the bottom portion.

Abstract: An oil pan for an engine, the oil pan having a plurality of substantially parallel, spaced-apart reinforcement channels (58) extending from adjacent a first end (10) of the oil pan to adjacent a second end (12) of the oil pan, each channel (58) having a base (58) and two sides (60) and an open top (66); the channels (58) tapering downwardly from the first end (10) and the second end (12) towards an accumulation area (24) of the oil pan.

Abstract: A system for improved collection and containment of fluids such as oils that commonly drip from an aircraft during service maintenance operations and during normal periods of storage. The system comprises a ground-supported drip pan incorporating a peripheral cutout adapted to accommodate a landing wheel of the aircraft to permit effective positioning under the engine. An embodiment for exterior use utilizing the weight of the aircraft to prevent movement of the system is also disclosed.

Abstract: A container for a manually operable oil dispenser for use with metal working machines comprises a bucket providing a reservoir for oil to be dispensed and a pan in the bucket for catching oil and chips dropping thereinto and for returning the oil to the bucket. The bucket has a bottom, a sidewall and an annular upper end, and the pan has an apertured bottom spaced above the bottom of the bucket, a sidewall inwardly of the sidewall of the bucket and an upper end overlying and slidable circumferentially relative to the upper end of the bucket. The bucket and pan have locking members interengaging during relative sliding displacement therebetween to releasably interengage the bucket and pan against separation. The bottom and sidewall of the bucket are contoured to minimize the volume of oil necessary in the reservoir area for continual operation of the dispenser, and the bucket is provided with a bulkhead fitting for attachment to a dispensing pump hose at an angle of 45° to horizontal.

Abstract: A cover plate is provided for closing a crankcase of an internal-combustion engine on its underside. The cover plate has a suction point for collecting lubricant from the crankcase. With respect to the crankcase, the suction point is closed off by a screen plate. This screen plate comprises a first area with passage openings for the lubricant and a second area which is impervious to the lubricant. The screen plate has the effect that a reliable lubricant intake from the suction point is ensured even in the event of a tilt of the internal-combustion engine.

Abstract: A portable chemical spill control device includes an expansive sheet of absorbent material having upper and lower surfaces and a periphery that defines a circumference. The sheet of material is of a material that is resistant to fluid attacks so that spills deposited upon the upper surface are contained on the upper surface. A peripheral bead includes a foldable portion that extends around the expansive sheet of material, the bead including an elongated tensile member and a folded portion that holds the elongated tensile member to the absorbent sheet of material. A connection joins the peripheral bead to the expansive sheet of absorbent material in a configuration that envelops the tensile member with the foldable portion.

Abstract: The interior of a crankcase is divided into a front crank chamber and a rear transmission chamber by a partition wall of a given height. A lower part of the transmission case is used as an oil reservoir chamber for reserving lubricating oil. Opposite ends of the crankcase are covered with covers to form a generator chamber and a clutch chamber. The crank chamber is connected to the generator chamber by a drain passage to drain oil collected in the crank chamber into the generator chamber. A scavenging pump placed in the clutch chamber sucks the oil collected in the generator chamber through an oil passage extending across the crankcase under the crank chamber and discharges the oil into an air space in the clutch chamber.

Abstract: The invention described and claimed in this application is for a fluid drip, tire tread, tire pressure, and foreign exhaust identification apparatus for a vehicle and the like. The inventive device includes a mat with stenciled regions drawn on the mat that identify various vehicle systems, which is placed beneath a vehicle, whereby each region defines a receiving area for identifying fluid drips, particulate, or excessive emissions from a vehicle system and a tire platform comprised of a deformable material for measuring the tire pressure and tread depth.

Abstract: An apparatus for capturing oil dripping from the bottom of a vehicle. The apparatus includes a pan that is preferably made of a rigid material such as aluminum or hard plastic. Positioned within the pan is a pad that includes an absorbent layer, which readily absorbs oil, and a barrier layer, through which oil is unlikely to pass. The absorbent layer of the pad faces engine components that could potentially leak oil. The barrier layer faces the pan. The pad is also configured to be positioned within the pan so as to be easily replaceable once the pad becomes saturated with oil.

Abstract: A baffle plate is arranged between a crankshaft axially supported in a freely rotating manner by a cylinder block and a bearing cap and an oil pan storing lubricating oil supplied to each part of a vehicle engine. The baffle plate is fastened to the bearing cap using parent bolts for fastening the bearing cap and the cylinder block through screwing from the bottom surface of the bearing cap.

Abstract: The present invention provides a roll-edge stamped metal drip tray with a wire retaining bar hinged at one end and secured at another end by a locking slot. The wire retaining bar holds an absorbent material in the drip pan. The wire retaining bar may be provided at a distance away from the edge of the drip pan to as to prevent the absorbent material from blowing out of the pan. The wire retaining bar may be released from its locking slot an one end, and the bar hinged upwards to a substantially vertical position, where the wire retaining bar is prevented from falling backwards by bends in the retaining bar hinge portion. Once an absorbent material is inserted into the pan, the wire retaining bar may be lowered into position and locked into place using one or more locking slots which accept a suitably formed wire portion.

Abstract: An absorbent mat assembly including a petroleum resistant mat having a bottom panel and a raised perimeter forming a recess. An absorbent pad is placed within the recess and a fluid permeable backflow prevention member and a fluid permeable mesh are placed over the absorbent pad and secured to the mat using a plurality of mesh connectors. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the absorbent pad includes a recyclable, washable and reusable material such as a polypropylene absorbent pad. The mat may be formed of a compound including recycled tires. The backflow prevention member and the mesh may be formed of a solvent or petroleum resistant material such as a high density polyethylene. The absorbent mat assembly may also include a connector strip for connecting two mats together along a marginal edge.

Abstract: A plastic container having an internal chamber for collection and transport of drained fluid oil, a handle on an upper part and a cylindrical protrusion on a lower part of the container provided with a mouth closed by a cap, the upper part of the container has a recess for removable elements to be used for fluid or oil changing and for adding of new oil in a manner similar to a funnel which is screwed into a hole, a cap is provided at the end of the oil discharge for closing or opening the hole on which the funnel is placed, and two collecting elements are placeable onto inlet holes or openings for oil which is to be added into the motor, to provide for positioning of the funnel and consequently to provide for the addition of new oil or topping-up oil to the engine.

Abstract: An oil drain pan comprises a unitary, molded plastic container with a bottom panel, a lateral side wall panel and a top panel with a large opening therein. A wire handle is inserted into a peripheral slot in the top panel. Casters are affixed to the side panel intermediate the top and bottom panel so that the container is elevated appropriately but maintains a minimum low profile. The container is symmetrical about a longitudinal axis and further includes a pour spout at the front end thereof.

Abstract: An oil pan for an engine includes a body having a floor and side walls. The body has a plurality of baffles extending vertically from the floor and intersecting each other and the side walls in a manner to form four chambers. The baffles have openings to allow oil flow therethrough. One of the chambers acts as an oil pick-up chamber.

Abstract: Fluids disposal symbiotic apparatus represents system and method helping technician, lube professional, hobbyist, as well as automotive, aircraft or marine vehicle subject matter specialist quickly yet conveniently change and dispose oil, transmission and/or other fluids, including fresh and wasted, avoiding oil exchange mess by utilizing a symbiotic multifunctional fluid disposal apparatus for collecting, storing and dispensing diversity of waste fluids. Said apparatus equipped with plurality of intake funnel, control valves, and output hoses or nozzles, to symbiotically input and accommodate coolant, engine oil, transmission fluid or other drainage liquid configurations, and adapt to original set of emptied bottles or plastic containers as an output configuration hosted in an original box, thus ensuring an operator may safely, cleanly and conveniently drain, collect and accurately dispose waste fluids.

Abstract: The invention relates to an oil collecting arrangement for an internal-combustion engine having an oil collecting housing arranged below a crankcase in which an oil suction space is constructed and at least one oil collecting space adjoins the oil suction space. The oil suction space is separated from the oil collecting space by at least one wall section in which at least one passage opening is arranged which can be controlled by way of a flap. The part of the wall section provided with the return opening is constructed as a plug-in oil separating wall which is fitted in between guiding ribs provided in the oil collecting housing.

Abstract: Herein is disclosed a snowmobile with an improved center of gravity. The snowmobile utilizes an oil pan with a bottom portion and a set of side portions that cooperate with the bottom portion to form a sump in which oil collects. The bottom portion may be grooved to permit a steering shaft to pass through the groove, thereby extending from one side of the oil pan to the other side. Optionally the bottom portion is formed to be congruous with a surface of a mechanism, such as a steering shaft, positioned at least partially beneath the oil pan. Furthermore, the oil pan may have a reduced depth.

Abstract: An oil feeding device for vehicles is disclosed. This oil feeding device is designed to draw oil from an oil pan through a plurality of suction branch pipes placed in depressions formed at the corners of the oil pan's bottom. Therefore, the oil feeding device reliably feeds a desired quantity of lubrication oil from the oil pan to the desired parts of a vehicle, such as the parts of a transmission, even when the oil level inside the oil pan is below a predetermined level due to consumption of oil, or excessive incline by the leaning of oil to one side due to inclination of a vehicle running on a slope.

Abstract: An oil containment boot to prevent oil spillage during removal of inverted oil filter canisters and method of using same. The oil containment boot includes a peripheral side wall defining an open top end and an open bottom end. The open bottom end of the boot is operably sealingly secured over the oil filter receiving base such that the peripheral side wall extends upwardly a distance above the oil filter receiving base to surround at least the lower portion of the inverted oil filter canister. Upon removal of the inverted oil filter canister from the oil filter receiving base through the open top end, any oil in the inverted oil filter canister is contained within the peripheral side wall of the boot.

Abstract: An oil supplying device (34, 36, 38) for a vehicle transmission (2) having one transmission housing (4, 6) with gears (10, 12, 16, 18, 22) situated upon shafts (8, 14, 20) and having teeth, bearings in which gears (10, 12, 16, 18, 22) and shafts (8, 14, 20) are rotatably mounted and one switch gear (30, 32, 50) suited to connect the gears (10, 12, 16, 18, 22) and shafts (8, 14, 20) for a transmission of torque. The device has an oil collecting duct (34) arranged on movable elements (32, 50) of the switch gear (30, 32, 50) which moves with the elements (32, 50) of the switch gear (30, 32, 50) and which extends substantially through the part in the transmission housing (4, 6) having all the gears (10, 12, 16, 18, 22). The oil collecting duct (34) has at least one opening (36, 38) which during movements of the elements (32, 50) of the switch gear (30, 32, 50) coats areas within the transmission housing (4, 6) on which the bearings and teeth are situated.

Abstract: An apparatus for and method of mounting a flange to an oil pickup tube uses a bracketed flange mounting (201, 203, and 205). The bracketed flange mounting includes a flange (203) with a flange extension (205) in connection with a bracket (201) that is mounted to an oil pickup tube (101) between its two ends. The bracketed flange mounting (201, 203, and 205) may couple to an engine crank case or oil pump inlet in the same way as prior assemblies without a bracketed flange mounting, thus no retooling of any other part of the engine is required.

Abstract: An oil pan structure for a four-cycle engine, in which oil stored in an oil pan is sucked up by an oil pump through an oil strainer and in which oil lubrication is performed by supplying the sucked oil again to each of parts of the engine to be lubricated. In this oil pan structure, a bottom portion of the oil pan is formed nearly like a bowl by being swelled to a side, which is opposite to a crankcase, from an attaching peripheral portion, to which a crankcase lower-part is attached, toward a central portion thereof. An oil pan cover covering a part of the bottom portion is separately provided thereon. Oil passages and are formed from the oil pan cover and the bottom portion. An oil introduction opening portion and an oil suction opening portion 82 are formed in the bottom portion.

Abstract: An oil deflector for an internal combustion engine has first and second oil-deflecting plates between a crankshaft and an oil pan. In order to configure the overall space, and in particular the overall height, of an oil-deflecting device so that it is as small as possible, it is proposed to arrange the oil-deflecting plates such that they overlap at a distance apart over the length of the crankcase. The longitudinal edge of the second oil-deflecting plate forms a main oil scraper edge. Strip-shaped ribs are arranged between the oil-deflecting plates, in their overlapping region, for the purpose of guiding oil in the direction of a suction point of the oil pan. The first oil-deflecting plate has apertures in the region of the width of a respective crank assembly assigned thereto. These apertures serve as secondary oil scraper edges.

Abstract: A balancer shaft apparatus efficiently prevent oil from being stirred in the oil pan and from being splashed into the cylinder block during the balancer-shaft rotation. Oil in a housing of the balancer shaft is discharged from a drainage hole formed at such a location above an oil level as to contact a base serving as a bearing beam of a crankshaft supporting member. The discharged oil hits inner surfaces of a recess formed on the lower portion of the crankshaft supporting member to form oil drops, returning to an oil pan. The housing is provided with guide passages connecting the drainage holes to a space in which the balancer shaft is disposed for draining the oil. These guide passages are formed with tapered guide surfaces for orienting the oil towards the lower portions of the crankshaft supporting member while splashed oil caused by the balancer-shaft rotation is drained through the drainage holes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a roll-edge stamped metal drip tray with a wire retaining bar hinged at one end and secured at another end by a locking slot. The wire retaining bar holds an absorbent material in the drip pan. The wire retaining bar may be provided at a distance away from the edge of the drip pan to as to prevent the absorbent material from blowing out of the pan. The wire retaining bar may be released from its locking slot an one end, and the bar hinged upwards to a substantially vertical position, where the wire retaining bar is prevented from falling backwards by bends in the retaining bar hinge portion. Once an absorbent material is inserted into the pan, the wire retaining bar may be lowered into position and locked into place using one or more locking slots which accept a suitably formed wire portion.

Abstract: There is provided a hydraulic fuel system having an integrated and internally mounted oil circuit for providing high pressure in a hydraulically operated electronically controlled fuel injector fuel system. There is provide an internally mounted high pressure pump in a pump housing in the crankcase and connected to internally routed high pressure lines that deliver the oil to high pressure oil rails. There is provide an integrated low pressure oil reservoir in the crank case that comprises a low pressure oil cooler and reservoir. The oil cooler is preferably immersed inside the low pressure oil reservoir to optimize available engine space and improve heat transfer. There is also provided a high pressure pump filter that covers a high pressure pump inlet feed passage to prevent debris from passing into the high pressure oil pump and other components on the high pressure oil circuit.

Abstract: An all-steel platform having a fluid-proof floor member with a channel at one side leading into a sump at the end of the channel. Fluid from the floor member flows into the channel and sump, and a pump in the sump for recirculating the fluid into containers on or above the platform. The platform will support a mobile vehicle for receiving fluid for wheeling it to a garden for spraying it. The platform may be used for spray-cleaning articles thereon. The platform is normally stationary but can be moved for re-locating it.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for filtering oil. The apparatus being an oil pan having an integrated oil filter unit, wherein part of the oil pan forms the bottom of the oil filter unit. The oil filter unit is fastened on the oil pan at least by means of a sealing component and one or more punch rivets. A method of fastening an oil filter unit on an oil pan, the method including introducing a seal and an adhesive between the oil filter means and the oil pan and joining the oil pan and the filter means, including the layer there between, by means of punch rivets.

Abstract: A combination fluid collection container and drive-up service point in a traffic lane. The fluid collection container for retention of leaked automobile fluids is thermally bonded to the traffic lane surface adjacent to a drive up service point. The shallow, rectangular basin is formed of a thermoplastic material which is impervious to automotive fuels and lubricants, and resistant to wear and degradation by the environment. The container is formed of multiple thermoplastic components which are assembled during installation on the traffic lane surface. These components include a base sheet which provides the bottom surface of the container, side walls, and end walls. The outer edges of the end walls may be tapered during installation to remove any abrupt discontinuities in the traffic lane surface. The leaked fluids are retained within the container until removed in compliance with local laws and codes.

Abstract: An oil containment boot to prevent oil spillage during removal of inverted oil filter canisters and method of using same. The oil containment boot includes a peripheral side wall defining an open top end and an open bottom end. The open bottom end of the boot is operably sealingly secured over the oil filter receiving base such that the peripheral side wall extends upwardly a distance above the oil filter receiving base to surround at least the lower portion of the inverted oil filter canister. Upon removal of the inverted oil filter canister from the oil filter receiving base through the open top end, any oil in the inverted oil filter canister is contained within the peripheral side wall of the boot.