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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2000
Daniel Paul Cunkle, Jonesville, MI (US);
Larry Martin Vandervoort, Spring Arbor, MI (US);
David John Gabbey, Pinckney, MI (US);
Pilot Industries, Inc., Dexter, MI (US);
Abstract
An automotive fuel tank fill assembly for a fuel tank is disclosed having a fuel fill tube with a first end adapted to receive fuel and a second end open to the fuel tank. The fill tube includes a spiral indentation formed around its first end so that the spiral indentation forms both an external and internal thread at the first end of the tube. An inlet valve housing containing a normally closed inlet valve has an external thread. This external thread is dimensioned to threadably engage the internal thread on the fill tube while a latch and detent mechanism locks the inlet valve housing to the fill tube at a predetermined rotational position. Similarly, a mount housing includes an internal thread which threadably engages the external thread on the fill tube. The mount housing includes a locking tab which engages the detent formed on the fill tube at a predetermined rotational position of the mount housing relative to the fill tube.