US3180144A - Flowmeter electrodes - Google Patents

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US3180144A
US3180144A US110206A US11020661A US3180144A US 3180144 A US3180144 A US 3180144A US 110206 A US110206 A US 110206A US 11020661 A US11020661 A US 11020661A US 3180144 A US3180144 A US 3180144A
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    • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
    • G01F1/00—Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow
    • G01F1/56—Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by using electric or magnetic effects
    • G01F1/58—Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by using electric or magnetic effects by electromagnetic flowmeters
    • G01F1/584—Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by using electric or magnetic effects by electromagnetic flowmeters constructions of electrodes, accessories therefor
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    • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
    • G01N27/00—Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means
    • G01N27/02—Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means by investigating impedance
    • G01N27/023—Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means by investigating impedance where the material is placed in the field of a coil
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    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
    • G01N27/00—Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means
    • G01N27/02—Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means by investigating impedance
    • G01N27/04—Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means by investigating impedance by investigating resistance
    • G01N27/06—Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means by investigating impedance by investigating resistance of a liquid
    • G01N27/07—Construction of measuring vessels; Electrodes therefor

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  • This invention relates to electrodes for fitting into the walls of tubes to provide an electrical connection to liquids flowing through the tubes, and has for its object to provide a new or improved form of electrode suitable for use with a tube embodied in the detector head of an induction ilowrneter, concentration meter or electrical conductivity measuring instrument.
  • Such a detector head normally comprises a short length of electrically insulating tube through which the liquid flows and into the wall of which suitable measuring electrodes are fitted.
  • the tube commonly comprises a body portion provided with an inner lining the material of which is chosen to suit the chemical nature of the liquid, and the invention is concerned with electrodes for use with tubes having such an inner lining.
  • an electrode for fitting into the wall of a tube comprising a body portion with an inner lining has a screw-threaded shank for fitting in a threaded bore of the body portion and a tapering nose portion adapted to seat in a bore in the lining.
  • the nose portion is preferably of frusto-conical shape.
  • the electrode preferably has a shoulder which limits the amount by which the electrode can be screwed into the body portion, and this shoulder is conveniently arranged to produce a small projection of the nose portion into the inner bore of the tube, after which the tube can be reamed to polish and radius the end of the electrode and ensure a flush fitting with the inner bore.
  • A11 electrical connection is made to the outer end of the electrode in the usual manner.
  • the material of the inner lining is preferably sufiiciently deformable for the nose portion to produce its own seating, in which case only a small pilot bore need be drilled in the lining before the electrode is screwed home with the lining suitably supported internally.
  • both the body portion and the lining will be of insulating material, but in some circumstances only the lining may be of insulating material.
  • the shank portion of the electrode may embody an outer insulating sleeve on which the screw threads are formed.
  • FIGURE 1 is a side View of the insulating tube
  • FIGURE 2 is a partly exploded sectional view on the line IIII in FIGURE 1.
  • the insulating tube 1 is fitted with diametrically opposed electrodes 2 and comprises an outer cylindrical tube or body portion 3 with an inner lining or insulating sleeve 4.
  • Threaded end parts 3:: fitted into the ends of the body portion 3 serve to connect the complete tube 1 in a pipe line (not shown) with which it is to be used, and both the body portion 3 and the sleeve 4 areof insulating material.
  • Each electrode 2 has a threaded shank portion 5 ad joining an inner frusto-conical nose portion 6 and limited on its outer side by a peripheral flange 7 providing a locating shoulder. At its outer end the electrode has a further threaded portion 8 for connection to an electrical lead by means of terminal nuts (not shown).
  • the threaded shank portion 5 is screwed home into a corresponding threaded radial bore 9 in the body portion 3, this bore being counterbored at 10 to receive the peripheral flange.
  • the nose portion seats into the inner sleeve at 12 and terminates at the inner surface of the latter to provide an electrical connection with liquid flowing through the central bore 13 of the sleeve 4.
  • the inner lining is of a slightly deformable nature and prior to fitting the electrodes is formed with corresponding pilot bores respectively aligned with the radial bores 9.
  • the electrodes 2 during fitting are screwed home into the body portion 3 to provide a slight inward projection of each nose portion 6, the sleeve 4 being suitably supported internally.
  • the inner bore 13 of the sleeve is reamed to polish and radius the ends of the electrodes 2 and leave them flush with the inner bore 13 so that they do not disturb flow conditions through the latter.
  • FIGURE 2 In the exploded view of FIGURE 2 the right-hand electrode 2 in that figure is shown detached, after the sleeve 4 has been deformed to provide the corresponding seating and the bore 13 reamed through.
  • the remainder of the flowmeter head is not illustrated and forms no part' of the invention. It includes the usual magnetic coils and pole pieces, and apart from the electrodes of the present invention may be of generally conventional form.
  • a tube having a wall and an inner lining within said wall of electrically insulating material compatible with a liquid the flow of which is to be contained within said tube, and an electrode mounted in said wall with an inner end electrode surface to provide an electrical contact with the liquid flowing along the tube and projecting externally of the tube to provide an electrical connection
  • said wall having a radial bore with an internal screw thread and the material of the wall in which said bore is formed being electrically insulating material
  • said electrode having a screw threaded shank engaging said threaded bore with a tapering inner end nose portion which is of decreasing diameter away from said shank seats in a bore in the lining aligned with said threaded bore, and another electrode exposed to the interior of the tube on the opposite side of the tube from the first-named electrode.
  • An electrode and tube assembly comprising an electrode threaded in an electrically insulating wall of said tube which has an insulating tube lining of a material compatible with a liquid to be contained within the tube, said wall having a threaded radial bore for the electrode and said lining having a radial bore aligned with said threaded bore, said electrode having a threaded shank engaging said threaded bore and a tapering nose portion seated in the bore in said lining, said nose portion being of decreasing diameter towards the adjacent end of the electrode which provides an end surface for electrical contact With the liquid, and the nose portion being dimensioned so that the electrode can be fitted and removed from the outside of said tube, and another electrode exposed to the interior of the tube on the opposite side of the tube from the first-named electrode.

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JPS5268256U (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) * 1975-11-17 1977-05-20
US4358964A (en) * 1979-06-30 1982-11-16 Otsuka Kogyo Co., Ltd. Electromagnetic flowmeter
US4454766A (en) * 1980-09-04 1984-06-19 Rheometron Ag Measured value recording device for magnetic-inductive flow meters
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US5955681A (en) * 1995-10-18 1999-09-21 Hafner; Peter Galvanic electrode of an electromagnetic flow meter
US5817948A (en) * 1997-01-21 1998-10-06 Elsag International N.V. Electromagnetic flowmeter with non-protruding contacting electrodes and method for producing the same
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US20050039546A1 (en) * 2002-08-26 2005-02-24 Payne Edward A. Increased sensitivity for liquid meter
EP1598644A1 (en) * 2004-05-20 2005-11-23 Yokogawa Electric Corporation Electromagnetic flow meter and production method thereof
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