Overhead traveling type fuel supplying apparatus

Claim 1

An overhead traveling type fuel supplying apparatus which comprises a horizontally extending guiding member, a traveling unit which moves and travels guided along said guiding member, a horizontally extending moving beam which moves with said traveling unit, a delivery unit which is fixed to the foremost end of said moving beam and has a fuel hose which is provided with a nozzle at one end thereof and can be lowered and raised, means for moving said traveling unit along said guiding member in either of opposite directions, a reservoir for storing fuel liquid, a first fixed fuel conduit which has its one end communicated with said reservoir and the other end disposed near the middle point of the moving range of said Traveling unit, a second fixed fuel conduit extending through said traveling unit, moving beam and delivery unit one end of which communicates with said fuel hose, and a folding tube both ends of which are respectively pivotally connected and internally communicated with the other end of said first fixed fuel conduit and the other end of said second fixed fuel conduit, wherein said folding tube comprises a plurality of tubes which are mutually pivotally connected and internally communicated with their adjacent tubes at the ends thereof and is so arranged that it is completely folded when said traveling unit is near the middle point of the traveling range and it stretches and contracts without deforming said plurality of tubes themselves as said traveling unit travels, and said plurality of tubes are made of a hard, nonflexible and non-elastic material.