Tractor having saddle gas tanks

• US 3,311,183 A
• Filed: 05/13/1963
• Issued: 03/28/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harold J. Phillips
• Original Assignee: Harold J. Phillips
• Inventors: Phillips, Harold J.
• Application Number:
  US04/279,789
• Time in Patent Office: 1,415 Days
• US Class Current: 180/54.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 15/00 Arrangement in connection with fuel supply of combustion engines or other fuel consuming energy converters, e.g. fuel cells; Mounting or construction of fuel tanks tanks in general B65D, F17C; supplying combustion engines with combustible mixtures or constituents F02M
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2015/03118 Multiple tanks, i.e. two or more separate tanks
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2015/03144 Fluid connections between the tanks
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 49/00 Tractors of walk type B62D51/04; endless- track features B62D55/00 ; transport specially adapted for underground galleries E21F13/02
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 37/0094 Saddle tanks; Tanks having partition walls

Claims

1. IN A TRACTOR OF THE TYPE COMPRISING A LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING RIGID HOUSING MEMBER ENCLOSING A DRIVE MECHANISM AND INCLUDING A REARWARD PORTION SUPPORTING AN OPERATOR'"'"''"'"'S STATION AND DRIVE AXLE MEANS BELOW SAID STATION AND EXTENDING LATERALLY FROM SAID HOUSING MEMBER BETWEEN A PAIR OF DRIVE WHEELS WHICH ARE DISPOSED ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID HOUSING MEMBER, THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING A PAIR OF FUEL TANKS RESPECTIVELY FIXEDLY MOUNTED DIRECTLY BETWEEN AND SUBSTANTIALLY WITHIN THE PERIPHERAL CONFINES OF SAID DRIVE WHEELS ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID HOUSING MEMBER IMMEDIATELY FORWARDLY ADJACENT SAID AXLE MEANS AND BENEATH SAID OPERATOR'"'"''"'"'S STATION.