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US 6,554,025 B1Granted
Multiple container filling system
OwnerJohan Christiaan Fitterinventor
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A battery watering system includes a filler unit mounted by means of an attachment mechanism to the flanged apertures of a three cell six volt lead acid battery. The filler unit is connected by a supply and drain line to a feed unit in the form of the reservoir tank and pumping assembly including a centrifugal pump, a DC pump motor connected to the pump by a pump coupling, and an auxiliary battery. The pump and the battery form part of a control circuit which includes a current sensing relay having a corresponding set of relay contacts. Water is pumped from the tank into a trough of the filler unit via the supply line. An array of three output ports each include a narrowed inlet, a downpipe extending inwardly into each cell of the battery, and a pair of breather tubes. On completion of the replenishment operation, excess water flows back through the supply and drain line into the tank. The invention extends to the attachment for coupling the filler unit to the battery.
A filling system adapted to replenish a plurality of containers with liquid to a predetermined level within each container, the filling system comprising a feed unit defining a primary liquid reservoir, a filter unit defining a secondary liquid reservoir, and liquid feed and drain means arranged to allow liquid to be fed from the primary liquid reservoir to the secondary liquid reservoir to replenish the containers and to allow surplus liquid not required in the replenishment operation to drain from the secondary liquid reservoir, the filler unit including a plurality of outlet ports arranged to discharge liquid into a corresponding plurality of access openings in the containers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.