Patent ID: 6494549
Filing Date: 2002-12-17
Classification: F17C

Abstract:
A space saving compartment for pressurized tanks, comprising:a) a rectangular metal compartment having a front, a back, a top, a bottom and two sides and the front is provided with an access door, b) tank mounts secured to the inside of the sides of the compartment and the tank mounts are positioned below the center of the compartment and closer to the front of the compartment than they are to the back, c) a tank receiving unit contained within the compartment and the tank receiving unit has a front, a back, a top, a bottom, and two sides and the two sides are provided with pivots projecting laterally outward form the sides to form a horizontal pivot axis and the pivots are pivotably engaged with the tank mounts and the pivots are located near the center of mass of tank receiving unit, d) a multiplicity of cylindrical tank receivers formed as a part of the tank receiving unit and the tank receivers are open at their tops and the tank receivers have their cylindrical center lines parallel and in a plane parallel to the sides of the tank receiving unit to form a file, and e) the tank receiving unit when rotated about its pivots projects outward from the compartment so that tank receivers are positioned one over the other with their open tops in position to receive tanks, and when the tank receiving unit is rotated about its pivots so that the tanks contained therein are in an upright file, and the access door is closed, the front of the tank receiving unit is adjacent to the access door.