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Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 1991

Filed:

Jun. 16, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:

Ronald E Sherrick, Lancaster, OH (US);

Assignee:

The Babcock & Wilcox Company, New Orleans, LA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73293 ; 73327 ; 250577 ;
Abstract

A device for determining the level of water and/or steam in a boiler is disclosed. The device is a liquid level gauge (10) of the Blackburn type and utilizes an optical fiber cable (44) to intercept the light that passes in a relatively straight path through a cross passage (16) in the body (12) of gauge (10). Due to the difference in the indices of refraction of steam and water, the optical fiber cable (44) intercepts the light when steam is present in the gauge (10) but does not intercept the light when water is present.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Sherrick, Ronald. (1991). Fiber optic level alarm (U.S. Patent No. 5072616). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5072616

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