Retractable and concealable fuel delivery installation

• US 5,595,224 A
• Filed: 03/02/1995
• Issued: 01/21/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gaetano Cutore
• Original Assignee: Gaetano Cutore
• Inventors: Cutore, Gaetano
• Primary Examiner(s): JACYNA, J CASIMER
• Application Number:
  US08/373,228
• Time in Patent Office: 691 Days
• Field of Search: 141/279, 141/382, 141/387-389, 137/234.6, 137/355.12, 137/615, 244/114 R, 244/135 R, 244/135 A
• US Class Current: 141/388
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 5/02 Supplying fuel to vehicles; General disposition of plant in filling stations apparatus for transferring measured quantities of petrol, oil, or the like from storage space to vehicles B67D
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 1/28 Liquid-handling installations specially adapted for fuelling stationary aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/3802 With vehicle guide or support, e.g., service station
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/8807 Articulated or swinging flow conduit

Abstract

A retractable, concealable peripheric gas station for refuelling in particular military vehicles, which is connected to a main station supplying it both with fuel and hydraulic fluid and has an outer metal tank (10) closed by an upper cover (11) hinged thereto, a metal frame (14) hinged under the cover so as to pivot between a lowered rest position and a raised operating position, a take-up reel (15) for a hose supplying fuel, and a hydraulic assembly (24) operating between the frame and the tank under control of the oleodynamic main station which causes the frame to pivot between the lowered and raised positions.

Claims

1. In a peripheric refuelling point (PPR) in a protected and concealed refuelling station system including

a) a fuel supply source (SS1,SS2);

b) a main remotely controlled delivering station (CCL) provided with

an electropump for delivering fuel from said fuel supplying source,

an oleodynamic control unit for delivering hydraulic fluid, and

an electric power supply;

c) a fuel delivering piping network (RRC) to be fed by said electropump;

d) a hydraulic fluid delivering piping network (RF1) to be fed by said oleodynamic control unit;

e) an electric network (REL) connected to said power supply;

said peripheric refuelling point (PPR) being connected to said main remotely controlled delivering station (CCL) through said fuel delivering piping network (RRC), said hydraulic fluid delivering piping network (RF1) and said electric network (REL) and said peripheric refuelling point (PPR), the improvement comprising;

an outer metal tank (10) of a parallelepipedic shape received into the ground;

an upper cover (11) for said tank (10) which has a hinge (12) at one side thereof;

a metal frame (14) which is hinged at said side of the tank under the hinge (12) of said cover so as to pivot between a lowered position and a raised position, said metal frame and said cover being engaged so as to drive the cover to pivot on the frame;

a take-up reel (15) pivotally supported by said metal frame and a fuel delivering hose (16) carried by said take-up reel in fluid communication with said fuel delivering piping network (RRC);

a hydraulic motor (19) for rewinding said take-up reel supported by said frame and controlled with the hydraulic fluid supplied from said main station through said fluid delivering piping network (RRC);

a cylinder and piston assembly (24) operating between said hinged frame and the wall (22) of said tank for causing the frame to raise and lower, said cylinder and piston assembly being operated by the hydraulic fluid delivered by oleodynamic control unit in said main remotely controlled delivering station through said fluid pipe network (RF1); and

control means for remotely controlling said main delivering station through said electric network (REL), said electric network consisting of low voltage electric lines.

2. A peripheric refuelling point as claimed in claim 1, in which said low voltage is 24 volts.

3. A peripheric refuelling point as claimed in claim 1, in which said fuel supplying source (SS1, SS2) is a pipe of a fuel piping system.

4. A peripheric refuelling point as claimed in claim 1, in which said fuel supplying source (SS1, SS2) is a pipe of at least one buried tank.