DEVICE FOR MEASURING MASS OF LIQUID CONTAINED IN RESERVOIR Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: devices for measuring masses of liquids. SUBSTANCE: device has housing, buoyant force converter and sensitive element submerged in liquid of constant section and height equal to range of change of level of liquid contained in reservoir; sensitive element is connected by means of rope with shaft of buoyant force converter mounted in supports; one end of flexible member is secured on shaft and other end is secured on housing. Flexible member is made in form of torsion spring, for example spiral spring fitted coaxially on the shaft. Spring consists of self-contained sections possessing different stiffness which may be disconnected; sensitive element consists of sections, for example, of equal length which may be interconnected in given set. EFFECT: enhanced reliability. 4 cl, 3 dwg