Patent ID: 6390152
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: B65G,B67D,Y10T

Abstract:
An upstanding and horizontally elongated modular bulk unloading station for transferring fluid from a fluid containing vehicle positioned at one lateral side of said station to a separate storage tank, said station comprising:a lower module including a rigid frame, an upper module position directly above said lower module including a rigid frame releasably connected to said rigid frame of said lower module, a floor, a platform connected to said rigid frame of said upper module for swinging movement between a raised position and a lowered position directly above a fluid receiving vehicle positioned at said one side of said station permitting worker access to the top of said vehicle, a plurality of upper module conduits with vertically disposed upper and lower end portions, said upper end portions being spaced from one another along said one lateral side of said station and a loading arm for each of said upper module conduits swingingly mounted on said upper module, each arm including a fluid conduit connected in fluid conveying relation to said upper end portion of an associated upper module conduit and fluid handling equipment mounted on said lower module including at least one fluid terminal connectable to said storage tank and machinery required to move the fluid from said fluid containing vehicle to said storage tank via said outlet including a least one electric motor driven fluid mover, flow control valves and piping inter-connecting said upper module conduits, said fluid mover and said terminal.