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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1976
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1974
Clifford C Hach, Ames, IA (US);
Hach Chemical Company, Ames, IA (US);
Abstract
A method of colorimetrically analyzing even heavily turbid or already strongly colored water by first sensing transmitted light from a light beam through a sample of the fluid, adding color-producing test reagents to the sample, again sensing transmitted light from an identical light beam, and comparing the sensed light readings to detect the change, if any, produced by the added reagents. Two colorimetric cells are used, one for testing before the addition of reagents and the other after, with the cells being defined by glass cylinders in which pistons reciprocate to pump measured samples to the cylinders, clean the cylinders on each pumping stroke, and 'valve' or block the light beam so that the other cylinder can be 'read'. Simple displacement pumps for the reagents, and the cell pistons, cooperate with valves defined by pincher arms squeezing flexible tubing to move measured amounts of sample and reagent throughout the analyzer. A common drive simplifies obtaining proper relative operation of the analyzer components.