Computing caliper

• US 3,154,673 A
• Filed: 11/29/1960
• Issued: 10/27/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edwards Jr Thomas Robert
• Original Assignee: Edwards Jr Thomas Robert
• Inventors: EDWARDS JR THOMAS ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US04/072,517
• Time in Patent Office: 1,428 Days
• US Class Current: 702/156
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 17/00 Methods or apparatus for determining the capacity of containers or cavities, or the volume of solid bodies measuring linear dimensions to determine volume G01B

Claims

1. APPARATUS FOR MEASURING THE VOLUME OF ARTICLES WHICH COMPRISES A CONVEYOR DEFINING AN ELONGATED PATH ALONG WHICH SAID ARTICLES MOVE, A RELEASABLE STOP MOUNTED INTERMEDIATE OF THE ENDS OF SAID CONVEYOR IN THE PATH OF ARTICLES ON SAID CONVEYOR FOR STOPPING ARTICLES AT A REFERENCE POINT IN SAID PATH, FIRST AND SECOND MEASURING MEANS MOUNTED ADJACENT TO SAID REFERENCE POINT FOR MEASURING THE DIMENSIONS OF ARTICLES ON SAID CONVEYOR IN A PLANE GENERALLY PERPENDICULAR TO SAID PATH, THIRD MEASURING MEANS FOR MEASURING THE DISTANCE ALONG SAID PATH WHICH AN ARTICLE EXTENDS FROM SAID STOP, ELECTRICAL MEANS FOR MULTIPLYING TOGETHER THE DIMENSIONS MEASURED BY SAID THREE MEASURING MEANS, POWER OUTPUT MEANS FOR RECORDING THE MULTIPLICATION PRODUCT CALCULATED BY SAID MULTIPLYING MEANS, AND MEANS FOR RELEASING SAID STOP TO PERMIT ARTICLES TO MOVE ALONG SAID PATH FROM SAID REFERENCE POINT.