Motor vehicle fuel tank
AssigneeInternational Harvester Company
InventorRonald A. Zeitlow
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Abstract
A liquid fuel tank assembly which has upper and lower body shells connected together along continuous bent flanges, and has a recessed and shielded fill neck and cap locking cam integral with the upper body shell and an extruded sump portion integral with the lower body shell.
Claims6
In a motor truck having a longitudinally extending side frame member supporting a motor truck cab, a pair of longitudinally spaced apart fuel tank support arm brackets mounted to the frame member and extending laterally outwardly therefrom below the cab, and a liquid fuel tank mounted to the support arm brackets in overhanging relation with the frame member, and comprising:
- upper and lower tank body shells seam connected together along continuous external projecting flanges;
- the lower tank shell having a depending sump portion means extruded in a horizontal bottom wall and nesting between the brackets for preventing fore-and-aft shifting of the tank;
- the upper tank shell having an indented flat portion notching an outboard edge formed by the juncture between a horizontal top wall and an outboard vertical side wall and extending into said top and outboard side walls and forming two opposed shoulders of an alcove;
- a fuel filler neck extruded in the flat portion between the shoulders and forming an opening to the tank;
- a cap locking cam formed on the extruded end of the tube;
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- a cap mounted over the extruded end of the neck and detachably secured thereto by the cam and shieldably recessed in the alcove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.