Patent ID: 9694732
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: B60P,F16K,Y10T

Claim:
1. A valve assembly for mounting a pump to a storage tank of a vehicle, said valve assembly comprising: a valve; and a valve body coupled to said valve and being made of a metal material, said valve body having an upper flange, a lower flange being parallel to said upper flange, and a cylindrical wall extending axially and linearly at an angle between and non-rotatably fixed to said upper flange and said lower flange, said wall having an angled portion oriented at an acute angle with respect to said lower flange, said upper flange, said wall, and said lower flange being integral, unitary, and one-piece, said lower flange being offset by said wall relative to said upper flange to facilitate installation of the pump on the vehicle, said upper flange including a plurality of circumferentially spaced through bores to reduce the offset based on a particular horizontal point of view of said valve assembly by rotating the valve body in either direction when attaching the valve body to an outlet sump of the storage tank.