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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1998
Timothy J King, Connersville, IN (US);
Barry Chestnut, Jenison, MI (US);
Lowell R Bell, Connersville, IN (US);
Stant Manufacturing Inc., Connersville, IN (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is provided that includes a valve container with a vapor inlet adapted for communicating with an interior region of the fuel tank and a vapor outlet, a baffle including an upper end coupled to the vapor inlet, an open lower end spaced-apart from the upper end, and a skirt extending between the upper and lower ends, and a float valve disposed in the valve container and movable between an opened position allowing flow of fuel vapor through the vapor outlet and a closed position preventing flow of fuel vapor through the vapor outlet. The skirt of the baffle includes at least one slot therethrough and the float valve is positioned to lie between the vapor inlet and the slot of the baffle when in both the opened and closed positions.