Mobile emergency response fuel facility

• US 7,328,728 B1
• Filed: 01/04/2006
• Issued: 02/12/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: David S. Vilar
• Original Assignee: David S. Vilar
• Inventors: Vilar, David S
• Primary Examiner(s): Maust; Timothy L.
• Application Number:
  US11/324,946
• Time in Patent Office: 769 Days
• Field of Search: 141/18, 141/94, 141/231, 137/551, 137/565.01, 137/565.17, 222/108, 222/129, 222/131
• US Class Current: 141/231
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/22 Tank vehicles vehicles convertible from transport of fluids to transport of other types of goods B60P3/426; tank aspects B65D90/00, F17C
• 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: B67D 7/845 Trolleys or like movable supports
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/86035 Combined with fluid receiver

Abstract

A planar support has an upper and lower surface, a front end and a rear end. The support has wheels. A housing mounted on the upper surface has a rear wall, front wall and side walls and a roof to define a space. A wall divides the space into a first chamber and a second chamber. A gasoline fuel tank and a diesel fuel tank is provided in the second chamber. A pump dispenses gasoline and diesel fuel from the tanks.

Claims

1. A mobile emergency response fuel facility comprising:

a planar support having an upper and lower surface with a front end and a rear end, the support having wheels;

a housing mounted on the upper surface with a rear wall and front wall with side walls and a roof to define a space, the housing having a first forward chamber and a second rearward chamber, wherein a fuel tank is contained within the second chamber;

a vertical wall dividing the housing space into the first forward chamber and the second rearward chamber, the vertical wall being parallel to the front wall and rear wall;

a gasoline fuel tank and a diesel fuel tank in the second chamber, each of the fuel tanks having a tank wall recesses with each recess having an associated block to prevent movement of the tank while the facility is being moved;

a generator for supplying power to the power supply box and electrical panel; and

a pump for dispensing gasoline and diesel fuel from the tanks.

2. The system as set forth in claim 1 and further including a gasoline vent extending upwardly from the gasoline fuel tank through the roof and venting to atmosphere and a diesel fuel vent extending upwardly from the gasoline fuel tank through the roof and venting to atmosphere.

3. The system as set forth in claim 1 and further including recesses in the gasoline fuel tank with positioning blocks extending upwardly from the upper surface into the recesses to preclude undesired movement of the gasoline fuel tank during transportation.

4. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the pump includes a rearward pump extending rearwardly from the rear wall and a forward pump extending forwardly from the front wall with lines coupling the pumps and the tanks.

5. The system as set forth in claim 1 and further including a communication assembly comprising a satellite communication dish on the roof with phones and card readers coupling the dish and the pumps for controlling and monitoring the dispensing of gasoline and diesel fuel.

6. The system as set forth in claim 1 and further including supplemental controls comprising, in the first chamber, a generator, power supply, electrical panel and fire extinguisher, and, in a rearward chamber, a monitor gage and emergency stop shut off, transfer pump and audible-visual alarm in the gasoline fuel tank and emergency vents on the gasoline fuel tank.

7. A mobile emergency response fuel facility for providing fuel to people and their vehicles in regions hit by hurricanes and other disasters comprising, in combination:

a planar support having an upper surface and a lower surface with a front end and a rear end, the support having a plurality of wheels depending from the lower surface adjacent to the rear end with an attachment component adjacent to the front end for separable coupling to a towing vehicle for transportation purposes;

a rectilinear housing mounted on the upper surface of the planar support with a vertical rear wall overlying the rear end and a vertical front wall in proximity to the front end with vertical side walls between the front and rear walls and a horizontal roof overlying the front and rear and side walls to define a space there beneath;

a vertical intermediate wall parallel with the front and rear walls dividing the space into a smaller forward chamber for controller components and a larger rearward chamber for the storage of fuel to be dispensed;

a rectilineal gasoline fuel tank in the rearward chamber for gasoline and a cylindrical tank for diesel fuel with a gasoline vent extending upwardly from the gasoline fuel tank through the roof and venting to atmosphere and a diesel fuel vent extending upwardly from the gasoline fuel tank through the roof and venting to atmosphere, recesses in the gasoline fuel tank with positioning blocks extending upwardly from the upper surface into the recesses in the fuel tanks to preclude undesired movement of the gasoline fuel tank during transportation;

a plurality of pumps including two rearward pumps extending rearwardly from the rear wall and two forward pumps extending forwardly from the front wall with lines coupling the pumps with the tanks and lights above the pumps;

a communication assembly including a satellite communication dish on the roof with phones and card readers coupling the dish and the pumps for controlling and monitoring the dispensing of gasoline and diesel fuel; and

supplemental controls including, in the forward chamber, a generator, power supply, electrical panel and fire extinguisher, and, in the rearward chamber, a monitor gage, ATM machine and emergency stop shut off, transfer pump and audible-visual alarm in the gasoline fuel tank and emergency vents on the gasoline fuel tank.