Electricity: measuring and testing – Measuring – testing – or sensing electricity – per se – Meter protection or fraud combatting
Patent
1987-05-07
1988-06-07
Karlsen, Ernest F.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Measuring, testing, or sensing electricity, per se
Meter protection or fraud combatting
116200, 116278, 292307R, G01R 1124, G09F 900
Patent
active
047499389
ABSTRACT:
A meter tampering detection device, comprising a sealed housing adapted to be installed in the cover of a utility meter, a supply of flexible tape in said housing having a graduated scale which changes as the tape is withdrawn from the housing, an aperture in the housing through which the free end of the tape is passed, said tape being arranged so that it can be withdrawn from the housing by exerting a pull on the free end, and said tape being arranged and having a flexibility such that it cannot be pushed back into the housing once withdrawn, and gripping means for installation on a fixed part of the meter for gripping the free end of the tape such that said tape is withdrawn from the housing as the cover is removed.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2199348 (1940-04-01), Rubinoff
patent: 3513801 (1970-05-01), Osorio
patent: 4588949 (1986-05-01), Becker et al.
Karlsen Ernest F.
Micro-Port International Ltd.
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