Measuring and testing – Navigation – Leeway incidence or side-slip
Patent
1988-11-21
1990-01-30
Orsino, Joseph A.
Measuring and testing
Navigation
Leeway incidence or side-slip
73181, 7386155, G01N 102
Patent
active
048965340
ABSTRACT:
A float-type flowmeter has a flow detecting surface, such as a fin, for pointing its inlet opening, which receives a portion of the flow to be measured, into the flow. Preferably the flowmeter, its inlet opening, and its fin, are all mounted to rotate as a unit, and the flowmeter is designed for measuring wind velocity on sailboats. This flowmeter is designed to be mounted on, and rotated around, a mast supporting wire, such as a shroud. The flowmeter should have counterweight so that gravity will not tend to prevent it from rotating around its wire when that wire is tilted. Similarly the inlet opening should be relatively small compared to the cross section of the float chamber, so that as the flowmeter tilts, the area of the inlet opening projected into a horizontal wind flow will decrease wind flow into the flowmeter, so as to compensate for the tilt. Preferably the flowmeter is designed so its float will not be visually obscured from upwind by the elongated structure around which it rotates. Both the wall of the float chamber and the surface of the float contain acrylic to reduce the tendency of the float to gather electro-static charge. It is also preferred that the wind meter has an intermediate opening between the bottom and top end of its float chamber so that more wind flows through the bottom part of the float chamber than the top, making the bottom part more sensitive to air flow.
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Chen Hollis T.
Orsino Joseph A.
Porter Edward W.
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