Automobile Tank (Patent No: 207371)

Inventor: Gillies, Robert Angus

Location: Calgary

Comments: N/A

Description: Robert Angus Gillies, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 11th January, 1921; 6 years. Filed 22nd May, 1920. Receipt No. 323,010.

Claim—1. The combination with a tank having an out-turned flange, of a cap screw on said flange, a draw off pipe attached to said cap screw opening to the interior of the tank and providing at the upper end and at the entrance to the tank a valve seat and a valve operating on the valve seat, said valve being slightly above the bottom inner face of said cap screw, the specific gravity of the valve being such that it sinks in gasolene and floats in water.

3. The combination with a tank, of a draw on; pipe opening to the bottom of the tank and presenting a valve seat at the point where it opens to the tank, a spider and a bracket located in the pipe, a valve stem slidably mounted in the bracket and the spider and a valve carried by the stem and arranged to seat on the valve seat aforesaid, said valve being formed from connected discs, one of light material such as cork and the other of a heavier material such as aluminium, the proportions of cork and aluminium being such that the valve sinks in gasolene and floats in water.

4. The combination with the bottom of a tank provided with an outturned screw threaded flange, of a cap screw fitted on the flange, a drain pipe carried by the cap screw and opening to the interior of the tank, said drain pipe protruding a short distance through the cap screw and having the upper end thereof providing a valve seat, a spider and a bracket located In the pipe, a valve stem slidably mounted in the bracket and the spider and a valve mounted on the stem and operating on the seat, the specific gravity of the valve being such that it sinks in gasolene and floats in water.

Claims allowed, 4.