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US 10,871,387 B2Granted
Domestic water meter
AssigneeGeorg Fischer JRG AG
InventorsRene Habers, Bernd Schuster
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Abstract
Method and measuring device for determining the drinking water consumption in a drinking water system preferably in a building, includes a riser and a plurality of ring lines which branch off therefrom and rejoin in the direction of flow, wherein each ring line has at least one consuming fixture and at least one measuring device, and wherein the consumption of the drinking water in each ring line is determined with a separate measuring device.
Claims4
A drinking water system for measuring consumption and circulation of drinking water, the drinking water system comprising:
- a riser;
- a plurality of ring lines, each one of the plurality of ring lines branches off from the riser and rejoins to the riser;
- at least one consuming fixture connected to each one of the plurality of ring lines;
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- a plurality of measuring devices, each one of the plurality of measuring devices is placed along the plurality of ring lines and configured to measure consumption of drinking water therefrom;
- wherein at least one of the plurality of measuring devices is configured to separately measure consumption of drinking water from the at least one consuming fixture, and at least one of the plurality of measuring devices is configured to measure circulation of drinking water through at least one of the plurality of ring lines.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.