# US 12,005,828 B2 · Trailer-mounted metered pumping system

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- Number: US 12,005,828 B2
- Document ID: US12005828B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/739,475
- Filed: 2022-05-09
- Published: 2022-08-18
- Granted: 2024-06-11
- Earliest claimed: 2019-07-10
- Assignees: Western Transport Logistics, Inc.
- Applicants: Western Transport Logistics, Inc.
- Inventors: Douglas L. Hancock, Jr.; Jacob R. Pew
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12005828B2

## CPC

- B60P 3/225: {Adaptations for pumps or valves}
- B60P 3/228: {Measuring or indicating means, e.g. of level, volume, weight}
- B65B 1/04: Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
- B67D 7/04: for transferring fuels, lubricants or mixed fuels and lubricants
- B67D 7/16: Arrangements of liquid meters
- B67D 7/62: power operated
- B67D 7/845: {Trolleys or like movable supports}
- F04B 13/00: Pumps specially modified to deliver fixed or variable measured quantities
- F04B 17/03: driven by electric motors
- F04B 17/06: Mobile combinations
- F04B 23/02: having reservoirs
- F04B 49/065: {and making use of computers}
- F04B 53/08: Cooling; Heating; Preventing freezing
- F04B 2205/09: Flow through the pump
- B60P: VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS (vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances A61G3/00)
- B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00)
- B67D: DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (cleaning pipes or tubes or systems of pipes or tubes B08B9/02; emptying or filling of bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels, or similar containers, not otherwise provided for B67C; water supply E03; pipe systems F17D; domestic hot-water supply systems F24D; measuring volume, volume flow, mass flow or liquid level, metering by volume G01F; coin-freed or like apparatus G07F)
- F04B: POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS (machines for liquids, or pumps, of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type F04C; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D; pumping of fluid by direct contact of another fluid or by using inertia of fluid to be pumped F04F)

## Abstract

A trailer-mounted pumping system includes a flatbed trailer having a generally flat deck surface, a pump, a batch controller, and a metering device in electronic communication with the batch controller, wherein the pump is configured to move a liquid from at least one tote supported by the generally flat deck surface to a location off-board the flatbed trailer, and the batch controller is configured to measure a volume of the liquid via the metering device. The pump, the metering device, and/or the batch controller may be disposed beneath the generally flat deck surface.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A trailer-mounted pumping system, comprising:
a flatbed trailer having a generally flat deck surface;
a pump;
a batch controller;
a metering device in electronic communication with the batch controller;
a power converter configured to supply electric power to the batch controller and the metering device;
a first housing mounted beneath the deck surface; and
a second housing mounted beneath the deck surface,
wherein the pump is disposed in the second housing,
wherein the pump is configured to move a liquid from at least one tote supported by the generally flat deck surface to a location off-board the flatbed trailer, and
wherein the batch controller is configured to measure a volume of the liquid via the metering device.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The trailer-mounted pumping system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the pump, the batch controller, and the metering device is disposed beneath the generally flat deck surface.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The trailer-mounted pumping system of claim 1, wherein the batch controller is disposed in the first housing and the metering device is disposed in the second housing.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The trailer-mounted pumping system of claim 1, wherein the power converter receives the electric power from a trailer auxiliary power line.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The trailer-mounted pumping system of claim 4, wherein the power converter is disposed in the first housing.

### Claim 6

A trailer-mounted pumping system, comprising:
a flatbed trailer having a generally flat deck surface;
a pump;
a batch controller;
a metering device in electronic communication with the batch controller;
a first housing mounted beneath the deck surface;
a second housing mounted beneath the deck surface; and
a printer in electronic communication with the batch controller,
wherein the pump is disposed in the second housing,
wherein the pump is configured to move a liquid from at least one tote supported by the generally flat deck surface to a location off-board the flatbed trailer,
wherein the batch controller is configured to measure a volume of the liquid via the metering device,
wherein the printer prints a report of the volume of the liquid, and
wherein the printer is disposed in the first housing.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The trailer-mounted pumping system of claim 6, further comprising a heating element mounted to the second housing, wherein the heating element is configured to radiate thermal energy to the pump.

### Claim 8

A trailer-mounted pumping system, comprising:
a flatbed trailer having a generally flat deck surface;
a pump;
a batch controller;
a metering device in electronic communication with the batch controller;
a cross-over pipe mounted to the flatbed trailer;
a first housing mounted beneath the deck surface; and
a second housing mounted beneath the deck surface,
wherein the pump is disposed in the second housing,
wherein the pump is configured to move a liquid from at least one tote supported by the generally flat deck surface to a location off-board the flatbed trailer, and
wherein the batch controller is configured to measure a volume of the liquid via the metering device,
wherein the cross-over pipe extends transversely across the flatbed trailer to provide a fluid path between a first side of the flatbed trailer and a second side of the flatbed trailer, and
wherein the cross-over pipe is coupled between the pump and the at least one tote.

### Claim 9

A trailer-mounted pumping system, comprising:
a flatbed trailer having a generally flat deck surface;
a pump;
a batch controller;
a metering device in electronic communication with the batch controller;
a first conduit;
a first housing mounted beneath the deck surface; and
a second housing mounted beneath the deck surface,
wherein the pump is disposed in the second housing,
wherein the pump is configured to move a liquid from at least one tote supported by the generally flat deck surface to a location off-board the flatbed trailer,
wherein the batch controller is configured to measure a volume of the liquid via the metering device, and
wherein the conduit is connected between the at least one tote and the pump.