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Abstract

An automotive fuel filler pipe valve assembly includes a valve receptacle adapted to be attached to an automotive body panel or receptacle at the body panel, the valve having a spherical or cylindrical inner space and a larger opening and a smaller second opening diametrically opposed to the larger opening, an annular seal seat being associated with the second opening, a spherical or cylindrical valve member which is fittingly accommodated by the inner space and pivotally supported about an axis to be moved between a closed and an opened position, the valve member having a funnel shaped through passage which in the opened position of the valve member interconnects the openings of the receptacle and in an angular offset position separates the openings, a closing member which is biased against the sealing seat by a spring and which may be opened by a filler pipe by a fuel-filling gun introduced through the passage, a locking member adapted to be moved between a locking and a releasing position and, when in its locking position, blocks the closing member in its closing position and releases it in its releasing position, a driving mechanism for the valve member, a transmission arrangement between the driving mechanism and the valve member which moves the locking member into its locking position if the driving mechanism pivots the valve member into the closed position, and a connection housing between the valve receptacle and a connection for a tank pipe and which accommodates the closing member and the locking member.

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