Fuel can adapter
AssigneeMercedes Textiles Ltd.
InventorDuane Leonhardt
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Abstract
A fuel can adapter is designed to be used with a fuel can having a neck that is internally and externally threaded. The fuel can adapter includes a plate having external threads for engaging internal threads of the neck, the plate including a hole. The adapter includes a sliding tube mounted to slide within the hole in the plate. The adapter includes an elbow mounted at an upper end of the tube, the elbow including an outlet. The adapter further includes a protrusion extending from the plate beside the hole. The elbow bears against the protrusion to exert a torque on the plate that threads or unthreads the plate from the neck of the fuel can.
Claims9
A fuel can adapter for use with a fuel can having a neck that is internally and externally threaded, the fuel can adapter comprising:
- a plate having external threads for engaging internal threads of the neck, the plate including a hole;
- a sliding tube mounted to slide within the hole in the plate;
- an elbow mounted at an upper end of the tube, the elbow including an outlet;
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- a protrusion extending from the plate beside the hole, wherein the elbow bears against the protrusion to exert a torque on the plate that threads or unthreads the plate from the neck of the fuel can.
A fuel can and adapter system comprising:
- a fuel can defining a container for containing fuel and a neck having internal threads and external threads;
- a fuel can adapter having:
- a plate having external threads for engaging internal threads of the neck, the plate including a hole;
- a sliding tube mounted to slide within the hole in the plate;
- an elbow mounted at an upper end of the tube, the elbow including an outlet;
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- a protrusion extending from the plate beside the hole, wherein the elbow bears against the protrusion to exert a torque on the plate that threads or unthreads the plate from the neck of the fuel can.
A method of using an adapter for a fuel can defining a container for containing fuel and a neck having internal threads and external threads, the method comprising:
- threading the adapter into the neck of the fuel can by (i) sliding a sliding tube through a hole in a plate of the adapter into the container of the fuel can until an elbow connected to the sliding tube abuts a protrusion mounted to a plate of the adapter and disposed beside the hole and (ii) exerting a torque on the elbow to cause the elbow to bear against the protrusion to thereby cause the plate to thread;
- extending the sliding tube through the hole in the plate;
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- connecting an outlet disposed on the elbow to a fuel line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.