Tank filling installations
AssigneeCompagnie d'Etudes et de Realisations de Cybernetique Industrielle
InventorsStephane Bosser, Pierre Heitz
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Abstract
In an automatic tank filling installation, the duct for insertion in the filling orifice of the tank, e.g. mounted on a railway truck or road vehicle, is mounted for movement in the longitudinal direction of movement of the truck or vehicle, for movement in a direction transverse thereto and for pivotal movement about an axis parallel to the longitudinal direction to allow the axis of the pipe to be aligned with the axis of an off center filling orifice, means being provided for causing the pipe to pivot simultaneously with, and as a function of, movement of the pipe in the transverse direction.
Claims9
A tank-filling installation comprising:
- a frame to be arranged over a track along which tanks will move one after the other;
- a bearing slide;
- a duct for insertion in an orifice in a tank by moving said duct along its axis;
- said orifice being capable of having an axis inclined with respect to the vertical;
- means mounting said duct on said slide for pivotal movement about an axis substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of said track;
- means mounting said slide on said frame for movement relative thereto in said longitudinal direction of said track and in a transverse direction for positioning said duct above the filling orifice of a tank;
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- means for rotating said duct about said pivot axis so as to incline said duct with respect to the vertical at the same time as, and as a function of, the transverse motion thereof, said rotating means producing correlated pivotal and transverse movement of said duct so as to align said axis of said duct with the axis of the filling orifice of the tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.