Method and apparatus for seating and sealing a pitot tube type flow meter in a pipe
CA 1296874 C · Owner: Delaware Capital Formation, Inc. · Inventors: Alston, Norman A.; Kalin, Horst W.
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A PIPE", ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE This invention relates to a method for seating a pitot tube type flow meter against the remote wall of the pipe in which it is being installed and subsequently sealing same within the tubular fitting through which it enters the pipe, such method comprising using a movable abutment to push compressible packing contained within an annular space provided between the outside of the pitot tube and the inside of its tubular fitting against a fixed abutment on the pitot tube thereby forcing the latter inward until it bottoms on the remove pipe wall and thereafter continuing to advance the movable abutment to narrow the gap between it and the fixed abutment to as …
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- Granted March 10, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 10, 2009.
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