Transfer fuel tank
AssigneeSuperTanks LLC
InventorJonathon W. Barnes
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Abstract
A transfer fuel tank is provided. The transfer fuel tank includes a tank body having an inner volume and a fill tube coupled to a top surface of the tank body. The transfer fuel tank additionally includes at least one baffle support extending from a side of the tank body into the inner volume of the tank body, a pickup tube support formed in a bottom surface of the tank body, and a strengthening channel formed in the top surface of the tank body. The strengthening channel is sized and shaped to receive a pipe fitting for a transfer pump, wherein the strengthening channel runs alongside the fitting and the pump to provide rigidity to this area of the tank body to support the transfer pump.
Claims4
A transfer fuel tank comprising:
- a tank body having an inner volume;
- a fill tube coupled to a top surface of the tank body, the fill tube providing access to the inner volume;
- a pickup tube coupled within the tank body;
- a pickup tube support formed in an interior side of a bottom surface of the tank body, the pickup tube support formed by a pickup tube recess formed in an outer side of the bottom surface, wherein the pickup tube support is a half cylinder formed by a rounded end of the pickup tube recess and receives an end of the pickup tube within the half cylinder and inhibits movement of the end of the pickup tube in at least three directions;
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- a strengthening channel formed in the top surface of the tank body, the strengthening channel is configured to receive a pipe fitting for a transfer pump, wherein the strengthening channel is configured to run alongside the fitting and the pump to provide rigidity to this area of the tank body configured to support the transfer pump.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.