Fluid handling – Processes – Cleaning – repairing – or assembling
Patent
1995-11-07
1998-06-09
Chambers, A. Michael
Fluid handling
Processes
Cleaning, repairing, or assembling
137315, 137347, 251291, 105358, F16K 5100
Patent
active
057620881
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a gauging device for use in a tanker railcar having a manway cover for attaching a valve having a valve stem, that the manway cover having an opening and a valve mounting recess, a checkvalve positioned in that the manway opening, that the checkvalve having a valve stem contact area, that the gauging device having a plate sized to fit across that the manway cover opening and engage that the valve mounting recess on that the manway cover and that the plate having an opening therethrough, that the opening positioned to substantially align with that the valve stem contact area of a checkvalve. Slidable in that the opening in that the plate is a calibration member, that the calibration member having one end adapted to engage that the valve stem contact area of a check valve and that the calibration member having at least one indicia placed thereon for indicating that the relative position of a checkvalve contact area with respect to a valve stem.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1650406 (1927-11-01), Weleker
patent: 2092926 (1937-09-01), Lithgow
patent: 4194523 (1980-03-01), Lubieniecki
Crochet Kevin
Sentilles, III Edward A.
Chambers A. Michael
ProVaCon, Inc.
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