Mobile service station

• US 3,257,031 A
• Filed: 07/30/1964
• Issued: 06/21/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Raymond C. Dietz
• Original Assignee: Raymond C. Dietz
• Inventors: Dietz, Raymond C.
• Application Number:
  US04/386,297
• Time in Patent Office: 691 Days
• US Class Current: 222/23
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/14 the object being a workshop for servicing, for maintenance, or for carrying workmen during work lifting devices for movable platforms or cabins for workmen B66F11/04

Claims

1. A MOBILE SERVICE STATION COMPRISING A FRAME WITH WHEELS OPERATIVELY ATTACHED THERETO AND A MOTOR SUPPORTED ON SAID FRAME AND IN DRIVING CONNECTED WITH AT LEAST TWO OF SAID WHEELS:

A CLOSED COMPARTMENT COMPRISING A ROOF, A REAR WALL, A LEFT SIDE WALL AND A RIGHT SIDE WALL, A FLOOR, AND A FRONT WALL ALL FIRMLY ATTACHED TOGETHER, SAID CLOSED COMPARTMENT FIRMLY ATTACHED TO THE FRONT PORTION OF SAID FRAME;

AN OPEN COMPARTMENT, THE INTERIOR OF THE FLOOR OF WHICH AND THE INTERIOR OF THE SIDE WALLS OF WHICH ARE ARRANGED TO CARRY LIQUID, COMPRISING A FLOOR, LEFT SIDE WALLS AND RIGHT SIDE WALLS ALL FIRMLY ATTACHED TO SAID FRAME AND FORMING AN UPWARDLY OPEN COMPARTMENT;

A PLURALITY OF GASOLINE-DISPENSING UNITS ATTACHED TO AND SUPPORTED ON SAID OPEN COMPARTMENT AND FIRMLY ATTACHED TO AND ELECTRICALLY GROUNDED TO SAID FRAME, THE SAID DISPENSING UNITS COMPRISING A METERING DEVICE, A PUMP, AND BEING PROVIDED WITH AN INDICATOR OF FLUID PASSED THROUGH SAID METER, SAID INDICATOR LOCATED IN A WINDOW, SAID WINDOW LOCATED ABOVE THE HEIGHT OF THE SIDE WALLS OF SAID OPEN COMPARTMENT, SAID WINDOWS BEING VISIBLE FROM THE OUTSIDE OF SAID APPARATUS;

A ROOF ON SAID OPEN COMPARTMENT, SAID ROOF EXTENDING REARWARDLY AND UPWARDLY, SAID ROOF COMPRISING AN IMPERFORATE SURFACE EXTENDING FROM ONE SIDE OF SAID OPEN COMPARTMENT TO THE OTHER AT THE FRONT END OF SAID OPEN COMPARTMENT, THE CENTER OF AREA OF SAID ROOF BEING CLOSED TO THE FRONT OF SAID OPEN COMPARTMENT THAN TO THE REAR THEREOF, SAID ROOF BEING ATTACHED TO SAID OPEN COMPARTMENT AT ITS FRONT AND REAR;

A POWER TAKE-OFF MECHANISM SUPPORTED ON THE FLOOR OF SAID CLOSED COMPARTMENT AND DRIVEN BY SAID MOTOR AND ATTACHED TO SAID MOTOR, CLUTCH MEANS FOR OPERATIVELY CONNECTING SAID POWER TAKE-OFF MEANS TO SAID MOTOR, AN AIR COMPRESSOR IN SAID CLOSED COMPARTMENT AND CONNECTED TO SAID POWER TAKE-OFF MEANS, MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTING SAID POWER TAKE-OFF MEANS TO ONE OF SAID DISPENSING SAID METERING APPARATUS, A SEPARATE POWER TRANSMISSION CONNECTING SAID POWER TAKEOFF MEANS FROM SAID MOTOR TO A SECOND DISPENSING MECHANISM, EACH OF SAID POWER TAKE-OFF MEANS AND POWER TRANSMISSION MEANS BEING GROUNDED TO THE FRAME OF SAID APPARATUS WITHIN SAID CLOSED COMPARTMENT;

AND AN ELECTRICAL GENERATOR ATTACHED TO SAID MOTOR AND DRIVEN THEREBY, A CASING FIRMLY ATTACHED TO AND CONNECTED TO EACH SIDE WALL OF SAID CLOSED COMPARTMENT, AN ELECTRIC BATTERY OPERATIVELY ATTACHED TO SAID GENERATOR, AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE LINE LEADING FROM SAID BATTERY TO EACH SAID CASING IN SAID CLOSED COMPARTMENT, A FIRST, EXTERNALLY ACTUATED SWITCH CONNECTING A SOLENOID IN EACH SAID CASING TO SAID LINE BY CONTACT POINTS WITHIN SAID CASING, SAID SOLENOID CLOSING A SECOND SWITCH IN SAID EACH CASING LEADING FROM SAID BATTERY THROUGH SAID BOX TO BATTERY-BOOSTER TERMINALS ON THE OUTSIDE OF SAID CLOSED COMPARTMENT, SAID CONTACT POINTS AND SAID SECOND SWITCH BEING COMPLETELY ENCLOSED IN SAID CASING.