Measuring and testing – Sampler – sample handling – etc. – Capture device
Patent
1988-01-04
1989-09-19
Noland, Tom
Measuring and testing
Sampler, sample handling, etc.
Capture device
7386464, 374155, 374157, G01N 112, G01N 108, G01K 1312, G01K 1302
Patent
active
048669970
ABSTRACT:
A grain probe for sampling and measuring the physical characteristics of stored grain in situ. The probe has a telescopic shaft with a meter fixedly attached to one end thereof and a novel grain probe tip fixedly attached to the opposite end thereof, a grain receiving chamber within the tip, an environmental measuring element is affixed within the grain receiving chamber and is directly coupled to a readout meter; and there is provided a novel mechanism for automatically closing the grain receiving chamber to grain kernels while the probe tip is being inserted into stored grain and automatically opening the grain receiving chamber to grain kernels for sampling and direct contact with the environmental measuring element to provide instantaneous physical characteristic information as the probe tip is slightly withdrawn from the stored grain.
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