Fueling mechanism for automobiles

• US 3,095,020 A
• Filed: 09/22/1960
• Issued: 06/25/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lee E. Darwin
• Original Assignee: Lee E. Darwin
• Inventors: Darwin, Lee E.
• Application Number:
  US04/057,836
• Time in Patent Office: 1,006 Days
• US Class Current: 141/232
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/0401 arrangements for automatically fuelling vehicles, i.e. without human intervention
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/742 involving mechanical counters, e.g. of clock-work type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/3802 With vehicle guide or support, e.g., service station

Claims

1. IN A SERVICE STATION, A FUELING MECHANISM FOR USE WITH AN AUTOMOBILE HAVING A FUEL TANK WITH A FUEL FILLER LINE COMMUNICATING AT ONE END THEREOF WITH THE INTERIOR OF SUCH TANK, AND HAVING A COUPLING MEMBER ON THE OTHER END OF SUCH FUEL LINE IN A SELECTED, FIXED, EXPOSED LOCATION, SUCH COUPLING MEMBER BEING SPACED A SELECTED DISTANCE FROM A REFERENCE MEMBER OF SUCH AUTOMOBILE;

SAID FUELING MECHANISM COMPRISING MEANS FOR LOCATING SUCH AUTOMOBILE IN A SERVICING POSITION IN THE SERVICE STATION, A FUEL SUPPLY CARRIAGE MOUNTED IN SUCH SERVICE STATION ADJACENT A SERVICING POSITION OF AN AUTOMOBILE IN THE STATION, A FUELING NOZZLE ON SAID CARRIAGE AND FORMED TO BE AUTOMATICALLY ACTUATED TO HAVE QUICK COUPLING ENGAGEMENT WITH A COUPLING MEMBER ON SUCH AUTOMOBILE, DRIVE MEANS FOR PROPELLING SAID CARRIAGE TOWARD AND AWAY FROM SUCH AUTOMOBILE IN SERVICING POSITION IN THE STATION, POSITIONING MEANS SPACED FROM THE NOZZLE BY THE SAME SELECTED DISTANCE AS THAT SEPARATING A REFERENCE MEMBER FROM A COUPLING MEMBER ON SUCH AUTOMOBILE FOR POSITIONING THE FILLING NOZZLE IN ALIGNMENT WITH A COUPLING MEMBER ON SUCH AUTOMOBILE, AND SELECTIVELY ACTUABLE MEANS FOR EXTENDING THE NOZZLE INTO COUPLED ENGAGEMENT WITH SUCH COUPLING MEMBER IN ALIGNMENT THEREWITH, WHEREBY LIQUID FUEL FLOWING THROUGH SAID EXTENDED NOZZLE PASSES THROUGH SUCH COUPLING MEMBER AND FILLER PIPE INTO A FUEL TANK OF SUCH AUTOMOBILE.