US1544458A - Gasoline reserve tank - Google Patents

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June 30, 1925.

A. A. KIM

GASOLINE RESERVE TANK Filed sept. 10, 1925 ATTORNEY Patented June 30, 1925.

UNITED VSTA'VIME'VS ARTHUR ALBERT KIM, F rrr rseoneii, PENNSYLVANIA.

GASOLINE RESERVE TANK...

Application filed September loQ sze. Serial n 662,024.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ARTHUR ALBERT KIM,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Gasoline Reserve Tanks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to containers, and more particularly to What I term a gasoline reserve tank.

One of the main objects of the invention is to provide a reserve tank which may be readily mounted in a gasoline tank of standard construction such as is ordinarily used .on automobiles, this reserve tankalso acting, as a baffle to prevent excessive splashing of the gasoline in the main tank. A further object is to provide a reserve tank so constructed and arranged as to insure that it will be kept filled until such time as it is desired to use the reserve supply of gasoline. Further objects will appear from the detail description.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side view of the reserve tank as applied, partly in section;

Figure 2 is a transverse section through the main tank, showing the reserve tank as applied;

Figure 3 is a top plan view of the reserve tank;

Figure 4; is a section taken substantially r on line 4:-4= of Fig. 3;

Figure 5 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing a modified form of filling tube;

Figure 6 is a longitudinal section through the filling tube illustrated in Fig. 5;

Figure 7 is a section taken substantially on line 77 of Fig. 6.

My reserve tank is intended to be used in connection with a tank A of known construction which is provided with a nipple establishing connnunica-tion between the two portions of tank Aat the opposite sides of the reserve tank 1. A pet-cock 5 is connected to tank 1 at the bottom thereof and is opened or closed, as desired, by means of a. rod 6 which passes through a packing gland 7 on the top oftank' A,this rod beingpreferably provided at its upper end with a head 8.

The top of reserve tank 1 is slightly dished transversely and is provided with a plurality of openings 9 which permit gasoline which is splashed upon the top of the tank to enter it thus insuring that the re-- serve tank will be maintained full or ap-. proximately full of gasoline. As will be noted more clearly from Figure 1, tank 1 tapers downwardly thus providing, at each side of the tank, an upwardly and outwardly inclined surface, the side walls of the tank I acting as battles to prevent excessive movement or splashing of the gasoline in tank A, the effectiveness of this battle being materially increased by the upward and outward inclination of the side wall of the tank.

If preferred, tube 2 may be replaced by a tube 11 of telescoping construction, this tube consisting of an inner member 12 which member 13 is slidable within the inner member. This outer member has its outerend cut away at its upper portion so that, when the tube is extended, gasoline poured into spout B will enter the outermember 13 and flow through tube 11 into reserve'tank 1. When the reserve tank is full the overflow will, of course, flow into the main tank A. Preferably, though not necessarily, sections 12and 13 of tube 11 are provided with ribs 141 and 15, respectively, which are in sliding engagement and act to prevent turning of section 13 relative to section 12 thus insuring that the cut-away upper portion of the outer end of outer section 13 will be positioned upwardly within the nipple or nozzle B Also, outer section 13 is preferably provided, adjacent to its outer end, with an angularly directed finger 16 which serves to limit inward movement of section 13 and facilitates moving of this section into operative position.

What I claim is .In combination with a main tank, a supcommunicates with tank 1 and an outer 'tank and havingits top wall spaced away tents of the supplemental tank into file main'- plemen tal tank positioned withifi the l nain *tank, and means for discharging the confrom bhetop ofthemain-tankytheiqp wall A. I of the supplementztl tank being -cfineaved In sfi d b fix amyslgm a and perforated to receive gasoline splashed t thereon and direct ibinjto the supplementel r i I tank, means for 'fil liiig the supplemental v I e ARTHUR ALBERT KIM.

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