Receptacles – Closures – With closure opening arrangements for means
Patent
1994-12-27
1996-06-11
Shoap, Allan N.
Receptacles
Closures
With closure opening arrangements for means
220326, 220375, 220 862, 220DIG33, 292 32, 292144, 292162, 296 9722, B65D 4326
Patent
active
055247865
ABSTRACT:
An automotive vehicle has a body with an external surface, a fuel tank filler pipe, and a fuel tank cap assembly comprising a plug sealingly engageable with the fuel tank filler pipe by insertion into the filler pipe to a rotatively fast sealing position, a cover carried with the plug that substantially blends with the body external surface when the plug is in the sealing position, and a latch mechanism carried with the fuel tank cap assembly operable without rotation of the cover to permit the assembly to move from the sealing position to a release position displaced from the body external surface, the latch mechanism also being operable in the release position through rotation of the cover to permit the assembly to move from the release position to a free position disengaged from the filler pipe.
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Cronin Stephen
Ford Motor Company
Kelley D. B.
May R. L.
Shoap Allan N.
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