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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 1983
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rodney L Palmer, Houston, TX (US);
John T Ostgaard, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Richmond Tank Car Company, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F / ; G01F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73 / ; 73149 ;
Abstract
A railroad tank car is calibrated by continuously adding liquid into the tank car from a liquid supply means. The amount of liquid is measured by meter means as the liquid is being continuously added. Depth sensor means continuously determines the depth of liquid in the tank car. A computer is used to monitor the instruments and to obtain a measure of the volume of liquid in the tank car at pre-determined depths and to correlate the volume measure with the measured depth.