Floating arm pick up device
AssigneeFuel Delivery Systems, LLC
InventorsSteven Y Burris, Charles A. Perry, IV
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Abstract
A fluid pick up device for removing fluid from storage tanks includes an intake, a submerging member that maintains the intake submerged in the fluid, and a float that enables the intake to move in relationship to the level of fluid. The submerging member can include an extension communicating with the intake. The extension can be an adjustable arm connected to a delivery member by a swivel joint. A stopping member can control the arm's range of motion. The intake is angled downward, and the length of the arm is set to prevent the intake from passing into a contaminated volume of fluid near the tank bottom. The intake can also be movable. The adjustable arm can retract into the delivery member.
Claims17
A pick up device for a tank with fluid, the tank having a bottom and wall, the pick up device comprising:
- an intake;
- a submerging member in communication with the intake for maintaining the intake a distance below the top level of the fluid inside the tank to prevent the intake from passing into a predetermined volume of contaminated fluid near the top level of fluid in the tank;
- an adjustable stopping member for adjustably controlling the rotational range of movement of the submerging member, the adjustable stopping member limiting the rotational range of movement of submerging member from rising above an orientation parallel to the tank bottom, the adjustable stopping member distal the wall of the tank, free of connecting with the wall of the tank;
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- a prevention means for preventing the intake from entering a predefined volume of contaminated fuel at the bottom of the tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.