Mobile distribution station having sensor communication lines routed with hoses
AssigneeFuel Automation Station, LLC
InventorRicky Dean Shock
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Abstract
A distribution station includes a mobile trailer, a pump on the mobile trailer, a manifold on the mobile trailer and fluidly connected with the pump, a plurality of hoses connected with the manifold, a plurality of valves, each of the valves situated between the manifold and a respective one of the hoses, a plurality of fluid level sensors, each of the fluid level sensors being situated at an end of a respective one of the hoses, and a plurality of sensor communication lines. Each of the sensor communication lines is connected or connectable with a respective one of the fluid level sensors. Each of the sensor communication lines is routed with a respective one of the hoses.
Claims15
A distribution station comprising:
- a mobile trailer;
- a pump on the mobile trailer;
- a manifold on the mobile trailer and fluidly connected with the pump;
- a plurality of hoses connected with the manifold, each of the hoses including an elastomeric tube and a fabric sleeve that circumscribes the tube;
- a plurality of valves on the mobile trailer, each of the valves situated between the manifold and a respective different one of the hoses;
- a plurality of fluid level sensors, each of the fluid level sensors being associated a respective different one of the hoses;
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- a plurality of sensor communication lines, each of the sensor communication lines being connected or connectable with a respective different one of the fluid level sensors, and each of the sensor communication lines being routed in a respective different one of the hoses between the elastomeric tube and the fabric sleeve.
A mobile distribution station comprising a pump, a manifold, a plurality of hoses, a plurality of detachably connectable fuel caps connected or connectable with the hoses, a plurality of valves, a plurality of fuel level sensors, and a controller, the controller configured to operate the pump responsive to a low fuel threshold to provide fuel to the manifold, from the manifold to the valves, and from the valves through the hoses, wherein each of the hoses includes an elastomeric tube and a fabric sleeve circumscribing the elastomeric tube, and wherein the fuel level sensors are hard-wired through the hoses between the elastomeric tubes and the fabric sleeves to the controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.