Aerially transportable tank for storing a composition for discharging in flight
AssigneeEurocopter
InventorsRichard Olive, Marc Denante
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Abstract
The invention relates to an aerially transportable tank (20) for storing a composition for discharging in flight, the tank including a neck (23) terminated by a composition discharge opening (24), and having a wall (21) extending the neck that is sufficiently deformable to be received in part or in full within the neck.
Claims22
A tank (20) for storing a composition for discharging in flight, the tank including:
- a neck (23) terminated by a composition discharge opening (24), and
- a wall (21) extending the neck,
- wherein the wall (21) is sufficiently deformable to be housed in part or completely inside the neck.
A composition storage device that is transportable in an aircraft (29) having a cabin (28), the device comprising:
- a tank (20) for storing a composition for discharging in flight, the tank including:
- a neck (23) terminated by a composition discharge opening (24), and
- a wall (21) extending the neck, the wall (21) being sufficiently deformable to be housed in part or completely inside the neck;
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- a holding structure (32, 34) for holding the tank when it is deployed inside the cabin.
An aircraft (29) comprising a fuselage (31), a cabin (29), fuselage walls, a cabin floor (27), and a ventral well or compartment (26) extending between the cabin floor and the fuselage walls, the aircraft being fitted with a tank (20) for storing a composition for discharging in flight, the tank including:
- a neck (23) terminated by a composition discharge opening (24),
- a collapsible wall (21) extending the neck, the volume of the neck being sufficient to house at least a part of the collapsible wall in a collapsed configuration, the neck (23) of the tank extending at least in part in the ventral well or compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.