Dieterich Standard, Inc.

Horst W Kalin

David Russell Mesnard

Donald Robert Verhaagen

Darrel F Coleman

Norman A Alston

Pitot tube type flow measurement device with a crank-operated

This invention relates to a method for seating a pitot tube type flow meter against the remote wall of the pipe in which it is being installed and subsequently sealing same within the tubular fitting through which it enters the pipe, such method comprising using a movable abutment to push compressible packing contained within an annular space provided between the outside of the pitot tube and the inside of its tubular fitting against a fixed abutment on the pitot tube thereby forcing the latter inward until it bottoms on the remote pipe wall and thereafter continuing to advance the movable abutment to narrow the gap between it and the fixed abutment so as to compress the packing between the two until it expands to fill the annular space and form a fluid-tight seal around the pitot tube. The invention also encompasses the novel apparatus for carrying out the above-described method.

Method and apparatus for seating and sealing a pitot tube type flow

This invention relates to an improved high pressure mounting for removably positioning pitot tube type flow measurement devices in a pipeline where the mounting includes a hollow tubular collar welded to the pipe in alignment with a probe-receiving opening therein and which is sized to slidably receive the body of the probe for movement into and out of the pipe, a relatively deformable and compressible ferrule encircling the probe body movable into abutting relation to an annular seat provided on the end of the collar remote from the welded end thereof, and a compression nut adapted to be screwed onto a threaded end of the collar adjacent the seat and cooperate therewith and with the ferrule therebetween to crimp the latter tightly around the probe thus sealing the probe in a fixed operative position, the improved positive lock which is characterized by adding an externally-threaded male extension to the compression nut, providing the probe body with a fixed abutment-forming projection exposed beyond said extension, and mounting a hollow open-ended generally cup-shaped cap on the probe body on the opposite side of the projection from the extension, the projection being sized to pass easily into the cap while the latter has both an internally-threaded portion adapted to screw onto the extension as well as an abutment-forming shoulder positioned and adapted to engage the projection when thus threadedly interconnected thereby preventing the probe body from being withdrawn from the collar.

High pressure mounting with positive lock

This invention relates to a manually-operated mechanism for inserting and removing flow measurement probes and the like from a pipeline carrying a flowing fluid, such mechanism being characterized by a hanger subassembly including a yoke mounted atop the probe for movement therewith externally of the pipe along with a pair of threaded rods suspended non-rotatably from the yoke and which parallel one another as well as the longitudinal axis of the probe but on opposite sides thereof, a drive subassembly supported in fixed position beneath the yoke and including a common drive shaft along with a pair of worm gear trains each containing a worm gear threaded onto one of the threaded rods, such drive subassembly operatively interconnecting the shaft and the two threaded rods for simultaneously and synchronously raising or lowering the latter, and a handcrank for turning the drive shaft.

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Longmont, CO, United States of America

Horst W Kalin