Water meter with a measuring insert, sealed towards the outside

• US 6,848,303 B2
• Filed: 12/02/2003
• Issued: 02/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hydrometer GmbH (Diehl VA Systeme Stiftung & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: Hydrometer GmbH (Diehl VA Systeme Stiftung & Company KG)
• Inventors: Klass, Walter, Oeder, Ottmar
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, HARSHAD R
• Application Number:
  US10/725,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20040206175A1
• Time in Patent Office: 427 Days
• Field of Search: 732/73, 732/01, 732/72.R
• US Class Current: 73/273
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 1/10 using rotating vanes with axial admission
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 15/14 Casings, e.g. of special material

Abstract

A water meter includes a metal housing which is connectable with a connecting housing through which the water passes and which is disposed in a water pipeline. A plastic measurement insert includes a channel ring upper part, a channel ring lower part and an unpeller mounted therebetween. The metal housing presses the plastic measurement insert onto an outlet opening of the connecting housing. Said plastic measurement insert is seated with its lower edge on a gasket on an opening surrounding the connecting housing to thereby form a seal.

Claims

1. A water meter comprising a metal housing which is connectable with a connecting housing through which the water passes and which is disposed in a water pipeline, a plastic measurement insert comprising a channel ring upper part, a channel ring lower part and an unpeller mounted therebetween, the metal housing pressing the plastic measurement insert onto an outlet opening of the connecting housing, said plastic measurement insert being seated with its lower edge on a gasket on an inlet opening of the connecting housing and which surrounding the connecting housing to thereby form a seal.

2. The water meter of claim 1, wherein the channel ring upper part is provided with an outwardly directed contacting-pressure edge flange which contacts an edge of the metal housing from below.

3. The water meter of claim 1, wherein the gasket surrounding the inlet opening has at least one flat portion.

4. The water meter of claim 2 wherein the gasket surrounding the inlet opening has at least one flat portion.

5. The water meter of claim 1 wherein said connecting housing has a groove in which said at least one flat portion of said gasket is accommodated.

6. The water meter of claim 1 further comprising a screen between said channel ring lower part and said connecting housing, and a seal member between said channel ring lower part and said connecting housing.

7. The water meter of claim 6 wherein said seal member has an arcuate cross-sectional configuration.