Mobile distribution station with fail-safes
AssigneeFuel Automation Station, LLC
InventorRicky Dean Shock
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Abstract
A fluid delivery apparatus includes a mobile distribution station, at least one manifold on the mobile distribution station, a pump configured to deliver fluid to the at least one manifold, a plurality of reels fluidly connected with the at least one manifold, a plurality of hoses, a plurality of valves, and a plurality of fluid level sensors. Each hose is fluidly connected with a different one of the reels. Each valve is situated between the at least one manifold and a respective different one of the reels, and each fluid level sensor is paired with a different one of the hoses. A controller is configured to individually open and close the valves responsive to the fluid level sensors.
Claims19
A fluid delivery apparatus comprising:
- a mobile distribution station;
- at least one manifold on the mobile distribution station;
- a pump configured to deliver fluid to the at least one manifold;
- a plurality of reels fluidly connected with the at least one manifold by passages through the reels;
- a plurality of hoses, each said hose fluidly connected with a different one the passages of the reels;
- a plurality of valves, each said valve situated between the at least one manifold and a respective different one of the reels;
- a plurality of fluid level sensors, each said fluid level sensor paired with a different one of the hoses;
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- a controller configured to individually open and close the valves responsive to the fluid level sensors,
- wherein the mobile distribution station is elongated between first and second mobile distribution station end faces, with first and second opposed broadsides extending between the first and second mobile distribution station end faces, and
- wherein the reels are arranged in the mobile distribution station in a first bank of reels along the first broadside and in a second bank of reels along the second broadside, the hoses on the reels in the first bank of reels extending through first windows in the first broadside, the hoses on the reels in the second bank of reels extending through second windows in the second broadside, and an aisle walkway in the mobile distribution station that runs between the first bank of reels and the second bank of reels.
A fluid delivery apparatus comprising:
- a mobile distribution station;
- a manifold on the mobile distribution station;
- a pump on the mobile distribution station, the pump being configured to deliver fluid to the manifold;
- a plurality of reels;
- a plurality of supply lines, each said supply line extending through one of the reels to fluidly connect that one of the reels with the manifold;
- a plurality of hoses, each said hose fluidly connected with a different one of the supply lines through the reels;
- a plurality of valves, each said valve situated in a different one of the supply lines;
- a plurality of fluid level sensors, each said fluid level sensor paired with a different one of the hoses;
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- a controller configured to individually open and close the valves responsive to the fluid level sensors,
- wherein the mobile distribution station is elongated between first and second mobile distribution station end faces, with first and second opposed broadsides extending between the first and second mobile distribution station end faces, an interior of the mobile distribution station includes a first compartment, a second compartment, and an inside wall that separates the first compartment from the second compartment, the inside wall including an inside door for access between the first compartment and the second compartment, and the hoses extend through windows in the first and second opposed broadsides.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.