AU2021200681A1

AU2021200681A1 - Oil tank cleaning ball

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Publication number: AU2021200681A1
Application number: AU2021200681A
Authority: AU
Inventors: Chian-Yeu Chien
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2021-02-03
Filing date: 2021-02-03
Publication date: 2022-08-18

Abstract

An oil tank cleaning ball serves for attracting metal impurities within an oil tank, and has a function of checking whether the oil tank is dirty. The oil tank cleaning ball comprises an enclosing body made of 5 non-magnetic material, but the magnetic lines can pass through the enclosing body, an outer surface of the enclosing body being uneven and rough, having sags and crests so as to expand an area of the outer surface for attracting impurities; a magnetic metal sheet enclosed within and fixed by the enclosing body; the magnetic lines emitting from the magnetic metal 0 sheet can pass through the enclosing body so as to attract the impurities within the oil tank. Amount of impurities on the oil tank cleaning ball is used to decide whether an interior of the oil tank is dirty.

Description

OIL TANK CLEANING BALL FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention is related to cleaning of oil tanks, and in

particular to an oil tank cleaning ball.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

In manufacturing, transportation and storage of gasoline, gasoline

must contact with different kinds of manufacturing tools, devices and

storage tanks, generally, these tools, devices or tanks contain large amount

of metals which will generate with many metal impurities such as iron

powders, rust powders, or impurities of metal particles or powders. These

impurities will mix into the gasoline and then flow into the oil tanks of

vehicles and sink in the bottom of the oil tank. For a long time, these

impurities will seal the oil pump to cause that the pump cannot act and thus

gasoline will not flow out of the oil tank to provide to the engine.

Above mentioned conditions will cause the vehicles cannot move so as

to induce traffic jams abruptly and thus cause the traffic chaos, as a result,

the driver needs to hire a tow truck to move the destroyed vehicle away.

All these actions are time and money wasted.

In general maintenance works, the worker does not check whether the

interior of the oil tank is dirty and how much metal powders stayed therein.

This is because these works must be performed with the work of opening

the oil tank, while to open the oil tank is a very difficult work.

Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide a novel

structure which can reduce the metal impurities such as iron powders, rust

powders, or impurities of metal particles or powders. Furthermore the user

can also check whether the oil tank is needed to be cleaned so as to avoid

the destroy of the oil tank due to the seal of the oil pump.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Accordingly, the object of the present invention is to provide an oil tank cleaning ball, wherein the impurities (for example, iron powders, rust

powders, or other impurities such as metal particles or powders) within an

oil tank can be cleaned easily and conveniently by the oil tank cleaning ball

of the present invention. Another, the oil tank cleaning balls can be used

to check whether the interior of the oil tank is sufficient dirty so that it is

needed to be cleans. These functions provide sufficient convenience to

the drivers. It can be used to prevent that the oil pump does not act

abruptly due to the pump is sealed by metal impurities. Therefore, it can

avoid many traffic jam accidents due to the destroy of the oil pump.

To achieve above object, the present invention provides an oil tank

cleaning ball for attracting metal impurities within an oil tank, the

impurities including iron powders, rust powders, or other metal particles or

powders; and the oil tank cleaning ball having a function of checking

whether the oil tank is dirty; the oil tank cleaning ball comprising; an

enclosing body made of non-magnetic material, but the magnetic lines can

pass through the enclosing body, an outer surface of the enclosing body

being uneven and rough, having sags and crests so as to expand an area of

the outer surface for attracting impurities; a magnetic metal sheet enclosed

within and fixed by the enclosing body; the magnetic lines emitting from

the magnetic metal sheet can pass through the enclosing body so as to

attract the impurities within the oil tank; and wherein the oil tank cleaning

ball is placed into an oil tank and is sunk to a lower side of the oil tank so

that the oil tank cleaning ball can attract the impurities on the bottom of the

oil tank to avoid these impurities to seal an oil pump in the bottom of the oil

tank; and amount of impurities on the oil tank cleaning ball is used to

decide whether an interior of the oil tank is dirty so that it is necessary to be

cleaned.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Fig. 1 is a schematic view showing the elements of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an exploded schematic view about the two sheet bodies of the

enclosing body according to the present invention. Fig. 3 is a schematic view showing the combination of the elements in

Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an exploded schematic view of another sheet body of the

present invention.

Fig. 5 is a schematic view showing the assembly of the elements of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a schematic view showing the application of the present

invention.

Fig. 7 is schematic view showing another application of the present

invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

In order that those skilled in the art can further understand the present

invention, a description will be provided in the following in details.

However, these descriptions and the appended drawings are only used to

cause those skilled in the art to understand the objects, features, and

characteristics of the present invention, but not to be used to confine the

scope and spirit of the present invention defined in the appended claims.

With reference to Figs. 1 to 7, the oil tank cleaning ball 1 according to

the present invention is illustrated. The present invention includes the

following elements.

An enclosing body 10 is made of non-magnetic material, but magnetic

lines can pass through the enclosing body 10, such as rubber, plastics, ,etc.

Referring to Fig. 1, an outer surface 11 of the enclosing body 10 are uneven

and rough, has sags and crests so as to expand an area of the outer surface

11 for attracting impurities, such as iron powders, rust powders, or other

metal particles or powders. A magnetic metal sheet 20 is enclosed within and fixed by the

enclosing body 10. Preferably, the magnetic force from the magnetic

metal sheet 20 are proper so that it only acts in a near field of the enclosing

body 10 so as to attract the impurities nearby, while the enclosing body 10

is not attached to walls of oil tanks.

A line 30 has one end attached to the enclosing body 10.

Referring to Fig. 6, in use of the present invention, the oil tank

cleaning ball 1 of the present invention is placed into to an oil tank 100, sinks in the gasoline of the oil tank 100 and places to a bottom of the oil

tank 100 so that the oil tank cleaning ball 1 can attract the impurities on the

bottom of the oil tank 100 to avoid these impurities to move to an oil pump

110 in the bottom of the oil tank 100 so as to seal the oil pump 110 and

cause the oil pump 110 cannot act. The line 30 connected to the enclosing

body 10 is exposed out of an opening 120 of the oil tank 100 so that the user

can pull the oil tank cleaning ball 1 from the line 30 to cause the oil tank

cleaning ball 1 moves out from the oil tank 100. Thereby, the use can

clean the oil tank cleaning ball 1 and can view the oil tank cleaning ball 1 to

decide whether an interior of the oil tank 100 is dirty and to decide whether

the oil tank 100 is necessary to be cleaned.

With reference to Figs. 2 to 5, in this embodiment, the enclosing body

10 is formed by two sheet bodies 40. An inner side of each sheet body 40

is formed with a recess 41. After combining the two sheet bodies 40, the

magnetic metal sheet 20 is enclosed with the two recesses 41 of the two

sheet bodies 40. One inner surface of one sheet body 40 is corresponding

to that of another sheet body 40 so that after combination, the magnetic

metal sheet 20 is tightly sealed within the recesses 41.

Combination of the sheet bodies 40 is performed by any way which can

combining the two sheet bodies 40, such as screwing by screws or studs, sticky, or buckling, etc. Referring to Figs. 3 and 5, it is illustrated that two screws 50 pass through the two sheet bodies 40 so as to combine the two sheet bodies 40 as one integral body and the magnetic metal sheet 20 are enclosed within the recesses 41.

After combination, the magnetic metal sheet 20 are enclosed within the recesses 41, the magnetic lines emitting from the magnetic metal sheet 20

can pass through the enclosing body 10 so as to attract the impurities with

the lower side of the oil tank 100.

In the present invention, the outer surface 11 of each sheet body 40 is

uneven for providing greater surface area for locating impurities. In the

present invention, unevenness of each outer surface 11 of the sheet body 40

is formed by a plurality of round posts 61 (referring to Figs. 2 and 3), or a

plurality of rectangular posts 62 (referring to Figs. 2 and 5) so as to provide

larger combining area.

Fig. 7 shows another embodiment of the present invention, in this embodiment, a plurality of oil tank cleaning balls 11 are connected so as to

form as an oil tank cleaning ball set 5. In use, this oil tank cleaning ball set

5 can provide a larger area for attracting impurities. In Fig. 7, there are

four oil tank cleaning balls 1 are connected together.

In above mentioned applications, the oil tank cleaning balls 1 can be

connected by any ways which are all within the scope of the present

invention, for example, by using the line 30 to connect the oil tank cleaning

balls 1 one by one.

Advantages of the present invention are that the impurities (for

example, iron powders, rust powders, or other impurities such as metal

particles or powders) within an oil tank can be cleaned easily and

conveniently by the oil tank cleaning ball of the present invention.

Another, the oil tank cleaning balls can be used to check whether the

interior of the oil tank is sufficient dirty so that it is needed to be cleans.

These functions provide sufficient convenience to the drivers. It can be used to prevent that the oil pump does not act abruptly due to the pump is sealed by metal impurities. Therefore, it can avoid many traffic jam accidents due to the destroy of the oil pump.

The present invention is thus described, it will be obvious that the

same may be varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regarded as

a departure from the spirit and scope of the present invention, and all such

modifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art are intended to

be included within the scope of the following claims.

Claims

WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:

1. An oil tank cleaning ball for attracting metal impurities within an oil

tank, the impurities including iron powders, rust powders, or other metal

particles or powders; and the oil tank cleaning ball having a function of

checking whether the oil tank is dirty; the oil tank cleaning ball comprising:

an enclosing body made of non-magnetic material, but the magnetic

lines can pass through the enclosing body, an outer surface of the enclosing

body being uneven and rough, having sags and crests so as to expand an

area of the outer surface for attracting impurities;

a magnetic metal sheet enclosed within and fixed by the enclosing body; the magnetic lines emitting from the magnetic metal sheet can pass

through the enclosing body so as to attract the impurities within the oil tank;

and

wherein the oil tank cleaning ball is placed into an oil tank and is sunk

to a lower side of the oil tank so that the oil tank cleaning ball can attract

the impurities on the bottom of the oil tank to avoid these impurities to seal

an oil pump in a bottom of the oil tank; and amount of impurities on the oil

tank cleaning ball is used to decide whether an interior of the oil tank is

dirty so that it is necessary to be cleaned.

2. The oil tank cleaning ball as claimed in claim 1, the further

comprising a line having one end attached to the enclosing body.

3. The oil tank cleaning ball as claimed in claim 1, wherein material of

the enclosing body is selected from rubber and plastics.

4. The oil tank cleaning ball as claimed in claim 1, wherein the

magnetic force from the magnetic metal sheet only acts in a near field of the

enclosing body so as to attract the impurities nearby, while the enclosing

body is not attached to walls of the oil tanks.

5. The oil tank cleaning ball as claimed in claim 1, wherein the

enclosing body is formed by two sheet bodies; an inner side of each sheet

body is formed with a recess; after combining the two sheet bodies, the magnetic metal sheet is enclosed with the two recesses of the two sheet bodies.

6. The oil tank cleaning ball as claimed in claim 5, wherein one inner surface of one sheet body is corresponding to that of another sheet body so that after combination of the two sheet bodies, the magnetic metal sheet is tightly sealed within the recesses; and combination of the sheet bodies is performed by screwing by screws or studs, sticky, or buckling.

7. The oil tank cleaning ball as claimed in claim 5, wherein at least one

screw passes through the two sheet bodies to combine the two sheet bodies.

8. The oil tank cleaning ball as claimed in claim 5, wherein a plurality of round posts extends from an outer surface of the sheet body so as to

provide larger area.

9. The oil tank cleaning ball as claimed in claim 5, wherein a plurality

of rectangular posts extends from an outer surface of the sheet body so as to

provide larger area.

10. The oil tank cleaning ball as claimed in claim 1, wherein the oil

tank cleaning ball can be connected with another oil tank cleaning ball so as

to provide large range for attracting impurities.