ES287166U - Pluvi¿metro (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Rain gauge, essentially characterized by being constituted from a tubular body, preferably cylindrical, open at its ends and intended to be installed with its axis in vertical arrangement, body in whose upper embouchure a funnel is established that affects it integrally, preferably assisted by a grid and a filter, establishing in correspondence with its exit mouth a second funnel, considerably smaller, destined so that the water arrives by overflow to the measuring mechanisms, having foreseen that such measuring mechanisms materialize in a balancºn provided with two spoons, of perfectly symmetrical configuration with respect to its vertical and middle plane, passing through its axis of tilting, so that one of these spoons is maintained with its mouth in a horizontal position and in a situation of confrontation with the second funnel while the other spoon is left laterally shifted and in the pouring position, with the particularity that, from this situation, when the spoon is filled with its embouchure in a horizontal position, the automatic swinging of the rocker is produced by gravity, inverting its position and passing the second spoon when faced to the funnel while the first pours its contents to the outside, through the corresponding conduction established for that purpose having also provided that the actual measurement is made based on the number of tilts made by the rocker, which are controlled by a relay " reed "a microswitch, an optical reader or any other conventional element of this type that is excited by a connecting rod associated with the axis of the rocker and converts the tilts of the latter into corresponding electrical impulses available to reading means attached to the rain gauge itself or located at any distance from it. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)