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Test sample taking arrangement

US5375478A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 30, 1992
Grant dateDec 27, 1994
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Expiry dateJul 30, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N1/14
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A test taking arrangement for several separate testing points, especially for ground water and ground air tests, the arrangement has a guiding tube insertable into a ground opening and having a wall which is gas and liquid permeable at least in regions of testing points, transverse walls arranged in the guiding tube between the regions of the testing points and provided with closeable openings for testing conduits and a cylinder-piston unit train, a cylinder-piston unit train having a plurality of coaxially arranged cylinder-piston units and piston rods, a joint drive device coupled with all the piston rods of all the cylinder-piston units of the cylinder-piston unit train, a plurality of suction conduits and pressure conduits, and an alternating valve to provide a connection of each cylinder chamber of the cylinder-piston unit train with a corresponding suction conduits ending in the region of a testing point and with a corresponding one of the pressure conduits leading to a corresponding sample taking point.

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