Patent ID: 8087434

Claim:
Filler neck for a fuel tank of a vehicle the filler neck comprising: a circumferential wall atop a transversal wall of the fuel tank, the circumferential wall defining a first opening and a second opening below the first opening; a closing device for closing the first second opening; an insert circumscribing a longitudinal insertion channel within the circumferential wall for receiving a gas nozzle into the transversal wall of the fuel tank via the first opening; a drainage channel running into a drainage opening, in communication with a space located between the insert and the circumferential wall; a movable closing element movable between a closed position closing the drainage opening and a released position releasing the drainage opening; an actuator movable with the closing element, the actuator when the closing element is in the released position projecting into the insertion channel sufficiently that a gas nozzle inserted therein impinges on the actuator and as a result the closing element is moved to the closed position, wherein the insert, the closing element and the actuator form one unitary piece, the insert having a substantially tube-shape a wall from which the closing element freely extends.