US 9,725,295 B2Granted

System and method for distributing fuel

Assignee1119456 B.C. Ltd.

InventorsStephen William McKay, Robert Michael Estok, Neil Joseph Ladd

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Abstract

Disclosed is a system and method for delivering fuel to a plurality of vehicles. The system comprises a fuel source, a pump operable to draw fuel from the fuel source and a distribution manifold having a plurality of outlets. The system further comprises a plurality of fuel lines extending from the distribution manifold and a plurality of valve assemblies, each located in a tank of one of the plurality of vehicles each of the valve assembly being operable to independently shut off flow of fuel therethrough when the tank is filled to a predetermined level. The method comprises pumping the fuel supply from the fuel source to the distribution manifold, connecting a plurality of fuel lines to the distribution manifold and a valve assembly in each of a plurality of trucks in connection with one of the fuel lines.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A system for delivering fuel to a plurality of vehicles comprising:

a fuel source;
a pump operable to draw fuel from said fuel source;
a distribution manifold having a plurality of outlets, said distribution manifold in open fluidic communication with said pump;
a plurality of fuel lines, each of said plurality of fuel lines connected in free fluidic connection one of said outlets of said distribution manifold;
a plurality of mechanical valve assemblies, each located in a tank of one of said plurality of vehicles open fluidic communication with each of said plurality of fuel lines, each of said valve assembly being operable to independently shut off flow of fuel therethrough when said tank is filled to a predetermined level,
wherein each of said mechanical valve assemblies includes a biased piston slidably locatable within a housing and having a sealing face with an o-ring disposed thereon adapted to be sealed into contact with said housing when said tank is filled to said predetermined level, and
a control circuit programmed to turn said pump on and off at predetermined time intervals independent of said plurality of valve assemblies.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/877,823Filed 7 Oct 2015
Published: US 2017/0101305 A113 Apr 2017
Granted: 8 Aug 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

B67D 7/3272
Relating to the transfer method: using pumps
B67D 7/04
Apparatus or devices for transferring liquids from bulk storage containers or reservoirs into vehicles or into portable containers, e.g. for…: for…
B67D 7/3209
Arrangements of safety or warning devices; Means for preventing unauthorised delivery of liquid: relating to spillage or leakage, e.g. spill…
B67D 7/362
Arrangements of flow- or pressure-control valves: combined with over-fill preventing means