Universal liquid level indicating device for a fuel tank

Claim 1

FOR USE WITH A FUEL TANK OF GENERALLY INDEPENDENT SIZE AND DEPTH HAVING A TOP OPENING FLANGED WITH A CONVENTIONAL IRREGULARLY SPACED HOLE PATTERN, THE IMPROVEMENT BEING A UNIVERSALLY ADAPTABLE LIQUID LEVEL INDICATOR DEVICE, COMPRISING A FLANGE COVER PLATE HAVING A HOLE PATTERN CORRESPONDING WITH A CONVENTIONAL HOLE PATTERN AND ADAPTED TO BE CONNECTED TO THE TANK OVER THE TOP OPENING, A ROUND BAR SECURED AT ONE OF ITS ENDS TO THE COVER PLATE WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE TOP OPENING AND PROJECTING TOWARDS ITS OTHER END AWAY GENERALLY NORMAL TO THE COVER PLATE, A CLAMPING BRACKET, ADJUSTABLE MEANS TO SECURE THE CLAMPING BRACKET TO THE BAR FRICTIONALLY AT ANY ADJUSTABLE DISTANCE FROM THE COVER PLATE AND AT ANY ROTATABLE POSITION RELATIVE TO THE HOLE PATTERN THEREOF, A MOUNTING MEMBER, MEANS PIVOTING THE MOUNTING MEMBER TO THE CLAMPING BRACKET TO ROTATE THROUGH A LIMITED ANGLE ABOUT A ROTATIONAL AXIS TRANSVERSE TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE BAR, SAID MOUNTING MEMBER INCLUDING AT LEAST TWO PORTIONS SPACED APART IN A DIRECTION TRANSVERSE TO THE ROATIONAL AXIS, SAID PORTIONS EACH LYING IN A PLANE PARALLEL TO SAID ROTATIONAL AXIS AND HAVING ALIGNED OPENINGS WITH ONE OF SAID PORTIONS HAVING AN OFFSET SECTION THEREON EXTENDING TRANSVERSE TO SAID ROTATIONAL AXIS AND ALSO HAVING AN OPENING LYING IN A PLANE COMMON TO SAID ALIGNED OPENINGS, SAID OPENING IN SAID OFFSET SECTION BEING