Patent ID: 9745075
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: B60P,B62B,B62D,B64D,B65D,B67D

Claim:
1. A method of dispensing fuel from a storage device to an aircraft, the method comprising: storing fuel in each of a first storage tank and secondary storage tanks, the storage tanks being positioned on a wheeled base; moving a portion of the fuel that is stored in each of the secondary storage tanks into the first storage tank; determining that one of the secondary storage tanks is leaking and that a remainder of the storage tanks remain operational; moving the fuel from the leaking storage tank into the operational storage tanks; preventing the fuel from returning into the leaking storage tank; prior to dispensing the fuel, wheeling the device along a support surface to the aircraft; and dispensing the fuel from the first storage tank with the dispensed fuel including a portion of the fuel that was stored in the first storage tank prior to determining that one of the storage tanks is leaking and a portion of the fuel that was stored in the leaking storage tank.