Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – Filling head shiftably or separably connected to supply – Flexible or collapsible coupling section
Patent
1995-03-02
1997-01-21
Jacyna, J. Casimer
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
Filling head shiftably or separably connected to supply
Flexible or collapsible coupling section
141387, 141279, 1372346, 137615, 244114R, 244135R, B65B 300
Patent
active
055952240
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a peripheric gas station especially, but not exclusively, suitable for delivering fuel to military vehicles.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART
A peripheric gas station is intended to operate together with a number of identical stations of protected, concealable fuel delivering installations that are especially, but not exclusively, for military plants in which it is necessary to carry out the so-called "hot refuelling", i.e. delivering fuel at the same time to several vehicles with running motors.
U.S. Pat. No. A-2642957 describes a gasoline dispensing system having submerged fuel storage tanks and distributing piping leading to a number of elevatable units normally contained within a submerged pit casing having a platform extension movable to a position to bridge across the wing of an airplane for fuel servicing therof.
DE-U-7318246 describes an underground concealable fuel dispensing station for aircrafts or motor vehicles comprising a hinged cover on which a support for a reel of a dispensing hose is secured which is supplied with fuel from an underlying storage tank and a pump and electric motor unit.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The gas station of this invention is, in more detail one of the peripheric gas stations of a self-contained concealable refuelling system to be used especially, but not exclusively, in military installations such as airports, heliports, armoured division groups and the like.
This system includes: a fuel supplying source such as, for example, the pipe of a delivering piping system or one or more buried tanks; a main remotely controlled delivery station connected to the fuel supplying source including an electropump and an oledynamic station; a fuel delivering piping network from the main station to each peripheric gas station; a pipe network for delivering the hydraulic fluid operating the hydraulic drive means of the peripheric gas stations; and an electric system supplying the peripheric control means with power.
More particularly, each peripheric gas station includes: an outer metal tank shaped as a parallelepiped; a rectangular cover of such tank formed of a reinforced plate hinged at one side of the tank so as to open like a shutter; a metal frame hinged at the same side of the tank as the above plate so as to pivot about said hinge; a hydraulic cylinder and piston assembly for lifting and lowering the metal frame; a supplying hose provided with delivery gun; a rotatable take-up reel for said hose supported by the frame; a meter of the delivered fuel; a fuel filter; two gauges; a fire protection device. The metal tank is received and secured to a "hole" dug into the ground, the cover plate being flush therewith, and is surrounded by a gutter protected by gratings for carrying rain away.
The peripheric gas station according to the invention can take on both a rest position because of its structure described above, in which all of the component parts are received into the tank as well as protected by the cover plate and concealed, and an operative position in which the cover plate is pivoted and the frame projects upwards from the ground so that the hose can be unwound from the take-up reel in order to reach the vehicle to be refuelled, and the refuelling station can be operated and controlled.
As mentioned above the drive system for the peripheric gas station is of the oleodynamic type and includes a cylinder and piston assembly which operates between the hinged frame and the wall of the tank The raising of the frame causes the cover plate to pivot, the arrangement being such that the station has a reduced height size in the raised position.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
This invention will now be described more in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings which show an embodiment of the invention arranged at an airport.
In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is the airport lay-out, in which there are shown the fuel tanks the delivering main station and four peripheric stations according to the invention forming four p
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