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Pressurized viscometer

US5535619A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateNov 17, 1994
Grant dateJul 16, 1996
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Expiry dateNov 17, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N2203/0232
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Pressurized viscometer (10) with fluid holder (12) rotatable by a motor (M) and gearing (50) to shear a tested fluid F thus imparting torque to a spindle assembly 32 mounted via a flexural mount (rods TR) and having a read-out rod or wire (40) with an adjacent transducer (R, S), the wire passing through an elongated holder shaft (18) within a fixed cylinder that mounts an elongated fluid holder extension (16) via an elongated bearing array (20, 24) on the outer surface thereof.

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