Apparatus for monitoring a flow of fluid through a filter medium

Details Apparatus for monitoring a flow of fluid through a filter medium Apparatus for monitoring a flow of fluid through a filter medium

1990-04-09

1991-09-24

Huppert, Michael S.

Deposit and collection receptacles

Letter boxes

House

73198, 210 88, 210100, 13762411, 222 14, B67D 530

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050507729

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus is provided for use as an in-line fluid flow monitor through filter media of a variety typically employed in households upstream of a kitchen faucet. The apparatus includes a housing with an input port leading to a housing cap within which a turbine chamber retains a rotating turbine. The rotating turbine is coupled to a reduction gear train positioned with a gear housing, in turn, retained within the body of the housing in a reduction gear chamber. Fluid communication is provided from the turbine chamber to the gear reduction chamber. The gear reduction chamber ends in an eccentric output which drives the pawl of a pawl and ratchet assembly forming part of a rotatable valve. This rotatable valve rotates in increments as a camming stem affixed thereto moves along a camming surface until encountering a slot component. When the slot component is encountered, the rotatable valve and camming stem falls into it under spring bias to close the valve and provide a cue to the user that the predetermined quantity of flow of fluid has occurred. The device then is simply reset by hand by manipulating the camming stem back upon the camming surface.

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