Interlock system for a gasoline dispensing nozzle
CA 1079239 A · Owner: Sun Oil Company Of Pennsylvania · Inventors: Hansel, William B.
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A gasoline dispensing nozzle having a system for receiving vapors displaced from a motor vehicle gasoline tank being filled, and an interlock system for both preventing the dispensing of gasoline and closing the vapor receiving system until the discharge spout is properly inserted into the motor vehicle fillpipe. The interlock system includes a first valve mounted in the vapor receiving system outside the discharge spout. This first valve is opened when the nozzle is properly inserted into the fillpipe and is interconnected, with the automatic shut-off system of the nozzle so that dispensing of gasoline is permitted only when the nozzle is properly inserted into the fillpipe. The interlock …
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- Granted June 10, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 10, 1997.
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