Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – Filling means with receiver or receiver coacting means – Extensible or expansible inserted coupler or centering means...
Patent
1998-04-17
1999-08-03
Douglas, Steven O.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
Filling means with receiver or receiver coacting means
Extensible or expansible inserted coupler or centering means...
141301, 220 862, 220DIG33, B65B 104
Patent
active
059312068
ABSTRACT:
A fuel filler pipe valve assembly having a valve member with a partially substantially spherical portion pivotally disposed in a valve receptacle of a housing member, the valve member having a passage with an inlet opening and an outlet opening, and the housing having an inlet opening coupled to the fuel filler pipe and an outlet opening coupled to a body panel. The valve member is pivotal in the valve receptacle to open and close the fuel filler pipe. The valve member is formed of a valve shell portion and a valve cover portion, and the housing member is formed of a housing shell portion and a housing cover portion. A rotatable drive gear disposed through the housing member is engagable with a gear member on a truncated portion of the valve member to pivot the valve member in the housing member.
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Parker Eric G.
Simdon Craig L.
Trotter Jason K.
Douglas Steven O.
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
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