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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2002
Antony Joseph, Goa, IN;
Shivanand Prabhudesai, Goa, IN;
Suryakant Tengali, Goa, IN;
Ehrlich Desa, Goa, IN;
Prakash Mehra, Goa, IN;
Amol Sukerkar, Goa, IN;
Vijay Kumar, Goa, IN;
Robert Monteiro, Goa, IN;
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, IN;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a segmented cylindrical tide staff system [ ] for erection at remote areas for dynamic calibration of electronic tide meters and computer models of tides, said tide staff system consisting of plurality of cylindrical tubes [ ], said cylindrical tube being coupled to a flange [ ] at its end through a circular orthogonal hole [ ] drilled on a flat surface of the flange, said flange being provided with plurality of equally spaced slots [ ] drilled on the flat surface of the flange, an outwardly protruding tide indicating arm [ ] being mounted on the flange wherein said tide indicating arm consists of two mutually orthogonal planes [ ] and [ ], wherein plane [ ] is perpendicular to the axis of the tide staff and plane [ ] is parallel to the axis of the tide staff, said perpendicular plane [ ] being provided with a mounting terminal [ ] and a circular hole [ ] and said parallel plane being partitioned into two compartments [ ] and [ ] by a separating line [ ] thereby permitting indication of tide reading in more than one language, including a vernacular language and two or more cylindrical tubes being coupled to each other through slots [ ] using coupling means.