AUTOMATIC SIPHON METERING TANK-LIQUID DISTRIBUTOR Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: hydraulic automatic equipment. SUBSTANCE: invention can be employed to convert constant flow of liquid of low rate to discrete flow of high rate and to supply it in specified portions in turn into several conduits. Invention can find use in metering out of liquid to several users in food and chemical industries, in irrigation systems and in various devices of hydraulic wash-off. Salient feature of metering tank lies in absence of moving parts. It includes collection vessel, supply tube with cock, working siphon with mechanisms of vacuum actuation and stalling and with mechanisms of automatic change-over of liquid comprising several siphons with discharge parts put into sleeves having outlet branch pipes and intercombined with suction parts by means of collector. Outlet branch pipe of each preceding siphon communicates by means of microsiphon with lower part of space of sleeve of following siphon and branch pipe of sleeve of last siphon communicates with lower space of sleeve of first siphon. EFFECT: widened application field. 3 dwg