Flow meter of the area type

Claim 1

A flowmeter of the area type comprising in combination: a. a connection pipe member for connecting the meter to a main line through which flows a fluid to be measured, said connecting pipe member having an orificed disc disposed within the axial bore of said connecting pipe member and being disposed substantially normal to the direction of fluid flow through the connecting pipe member; b. said connecting pipe member being formed with a fluid bypassing inlet port disposed on the upstream side of the wall of said connecting pipe member with respect to said orifice, and further formed with a fluid bypassing outlet port disposed on the downstream side thereof; c. an annular meter-mounting pipe member or collar projecting substantially perpendicularly from one side of said connecting pipe member and disposed in coaxial alignment with one of said bypassing ports; d. a pair of fluid flowmeter lines, one of which constitutes a tapered fluid feed gauge line to receive bypassing fluid flow in one end to operatively move a float member therein relative to float indicator indicia provided on said tapered line, and then passes out an opposite fluid exit end; and the other line constituting a fluid flow return line for operatively directing the bypass fluid flow leaving said tapered line to said bypassing outlet port in said connecting pipe member for returning said fluid flow to said main line; e. lower and upper mounting base and cap means for operatively connecting said pair of lines together, said base means including means for mounting same for rotative adjustment to said mounting pipe collar of paragraph (c) to facilitate any of four predetermined angular mounting positions of the gauge meter line with respect to said mounting pipe member and said main line; f. said loWer base means for mounting said tapered and return lines including a mounting base having neck portion for cooperable sealing engagement with said mounting collar, and further having a side surface transversely disposed within said collar; said lower base having both inlet and return passageways communicating with and via ports formed in said side surface and operatively connecting said tapered feed gauge and return lines respectively with said bypass inlet and outlet ports of said connecting pipe member of paragraph (b), one of said latter passageway ports being disposed centrally in said side surface; and g. a communication pipe line with means for removably affixing a first end to and the other end projecting from that one of the inlet and return passageway ports formed in said lower base means which is coaxially aligned with said mounting collar of paragraph (c), and with said projecting end operatively connected with the corresponding coaxially aligned inlet or outlet port in said mounting collar of the connecting pipe member.