Fuel dispensing station
AssigneeBennett Pump Company
InventorGeorge E. Swick, Jr.
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Abstract
A fuel dispensing unit has a structure providing a plurality of dispensing hoses on each of two sides for dispensing one or more kinds of fuel. The unit has a closed cabinet in its lower portion containing the fuel handling equipment and a pair of vertical hollow end standards, one on each of the opposite ends of the cabinet. A trough interconnects the tops of the standards leaving an open space between the trough and cabinet in which a display unit is mounted to display information on price, volume, etc. All fuel handling equipment is confined to the cabinet, one end standard and the trough. All electrical and microprocessor facilities are confined to the other standard and are sealed from the cabinet, trough and the one end standard.
Claims13
A fuel dispenser having plural dispensing hoses on each of two faces, said dispenser having a pair of spaced, upright end standards, means for metering and supplying fuel and a housing enclosing said metering means in a chamber positioned between and rigidly connected to the lower portions of said standards;
- a hollow header extending between and rigidly connected to the tops of said end standards;
- each of said end standards being formed to provide a vertical passage and a removable cover to enclose the same;
- fuel dispensing hoses depending from each face of said header;
- fuel conduits connecting each of said hoses to said metering means, all of said conduits extending upwardly through one of said end vertical passages;
- an electrical power supply for said metering means and electrical conductors therefor;
- the conductors for said electrical power supply being located in the vertical passage of the other end standard and said passage in said other standard being isolated and sealed from said chamber, said first passage and said header.
A fuel dispenser having a pair of faces and a pair of upright end members, a trough like header member secured to and rigidly interconnecting said end members, a plurality of fuel dispensing hoses depending from a face of said header member;
- means interconnecting the lower portions of said end members and enclosing an hydraulic equipment chamber;
- said end members each being hollow and providing a vertical internal passage;
- fuel supply means in said hydraulic equipment chamber and fuel conduits connecting said supply means to said dispensing hoses, all of said conduits being housed in the passage of one of said end members;
- electrical supply, control and monitoring means connected to said fuel supply means;
- electrically powered display means connected to the other of said end members;
- a cabinet for said display means;
- said cabinet being of trapezoidal shape in horizontal section and secured to said other end member, closed at top and bottom, extending over said hydraulic equipment chamber and spaced from both said header and said hydraulic equipment chamber;
- electrical conductor members interconnecting said fuel supply means with said electrical supply, control, monitoring and display means, all of said electrical conductor means being housed in the passage of the other of said end members, said passage in said other end member being isolated from said hydraulic equipment chamber, header member and one end member;
- a pair of elongated illumination members mounted to and extending between said end members, one on each side of said trough, each of said illumination members having a housing spaced from said trough to provide an air gap between them and sealed from said passage in said one end member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.