Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – With means to move supply means and/or receiver to – from or... – With movable support for hose connected head or supply
Patent
1998-03-04
1999-07-13
Recla, Henry J.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
With means to move supply means and/or receiver to, from or...
With movable support for hose connected head or supply
1378992, 244135A, 141387, B67C 326
Patent
active
059212942
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus attached to a fuel hose and deployed rearwardly of a tanker craft, the apparatus for inflight refueling of an aircraft and includes a fuel valve for controlling the flow of fuel through the valve, a coupler attached to the fuel valve for receiving and locking onto the probe of a receiving aircraft and for conveying fuel through the coupler and to the probe of the receiving aircraft, and a plurality of struts attached to the coupler, the struts configured and arranged to compress inwardly when acted upon by sufficient compressive forces and to expand outwardly against aerodynamic forces when located in the airstream, the struts forming a bell shaped target for guiding the probe of the receiving aircraft into the coupler.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2823881 (1958-02-01), Patterson
patent: 3061246 (1962-10-01), Kirby
patent: 5255877 (1993-10-01), Lindgren et al.
Douglass Matthew T.
Garber Ronald H.
Greenhalgh Ellis Skott
Greenhalgh Samuel
Billi Ron
Nguyen Tuan
Recla Henry J.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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