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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Knut Meyer, Essen, DE;
Peter Andreas Löw, Erbach, DE;
Assignee:
Mannesmann VDO AG, , DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 1/04 ; B65B 3/04 ; B67C 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 1/04 ; B65B 3/04 ; B67C 3/00 ;
Abstract
In the case of a filling pipe for a fuel tank a branching element is arranged in a section of the filling pipe. The flow of the inflowing fuel preferably runs along an outer wall of the filling pipe, so that a subflow is in each case conducted directly to the antisurge tower through a lower cross-sectional area. Larger volume flows, which completely fill the cross section, pass for the most part directly into the fuel tank. By this means, a sufficient basic supply of the antisurge tower is ensured irrespective of the volume flow produced during filling.