Patent ID: 6915818
Filing Date: 2005-07-12
Classification: B67D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A pick up device for a tank with fluid, the tank having a bottom and wall, the pick up device comprising: an intake; a submerging member in communication with the intake for maintaining the intake a distance below the top level of the fluid inside the tank to prevent the intake from passing into a predetermined volume of contaminated fluid near the top level of fluid in the tank; an adjustable stopping member for adjustably controlling the rotational range of movement of the submerging member, the adjustable stopping member limiting the rotational range of movement of submerging member from rising above an orientation parallel to the tank bottom, the adjustable stopping member distal the wall of the tank, free of connecting with the wall of the tank; and a prevention means for preventing the intake from entering a predefined volume of contaminated fuel at the bottom of the tank.