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US 6,279,621 B1Granted
Portable hands-free gas pumping device and method therefor
OwnerJ. Terry Gelsominoinventor
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Abstract
A portable hands-free gas pumping device and method therefor, comprising a elongated body which can be inserted between a bottom surface of an activation lever and a bottom portion of a gas pump handle frame in order to maintain the activation lever in an activated position during the fueling process.
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A device for hands-free pumping of gas, comprising, in combination:
- a portable, detached, flat, rectangular body having a top portion, a bottom portion, a first face and a second face;
- wherein said portable, detached elongated body is dimensioned to be interposed between a bottom portion of a gas pump handle frame and a bottom surface of a gas activation lever when said activation lever is in an activated position, so as to maintain said activation lever in said activated position, and wherein said rectangular body has substantially the width of said activation lever;
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- wherein said top portion of said rectangular body comprises a single concave region dimensioned to mate with a corresponding convex bottom surface of said activation lever.
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A method for hands-free pumping of gas, comprising, in combination:
- providing a portable, detached, flat, rectangular body having a top portion, a bottom portion, a first face and a second face;
- wherein said portable, detached elongated body is dimensioned to be interposed between a bottom portion of a gas pump handle frame and a bottom surface of a gas activation lever when said activation lever is in an activated position, so as to maintain said activation lever in said activated position, and wherein said rectangular body has substantially the width of said activation lever;
- wherein said top portion of said rectangular body comprises a single concave region dimensioned to mate with a corresponding convex bottom surface of said activation lever;
- activating said activation lever by pulling it in a direction toward said top portion of said gas pump handle frame;
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- interposing said rectangular body between said bottom portion of said gas pump handle frame and said bottom surface of said activation lever so as to maintain said activation lever in an activated position.
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