Temperature indicating device for fluids

In a continuous weighing mechanism for fluids moving through a conduit system comprising a housing providing a chamber having aligned cylindrical bearings carried by opposite walls thereof and formed at its top and bottom, respectively, with an inlet and an outlet, a receiver rockable through a fixed circular path and adapted in one predetermined position to receive fluid from the inlet and, when in a second predetermined position, to discharge the fluid by gravity for drainage through the outlet, a rotatable shaft whereon the receiver is mounted fast for said rocking movement with the turning of the shaft, the shaft and receiver being formed for cooperatively effecting said fast mounting while permitting the receiver to be freely separable from the shaft by a radial movement relative thereto, the shaft having end portions extended into the cylindrical bearings and having the portions lying the bearings of outwardly rounded form and closely journaled in an engaging in annular line contact with the bearings for free rotation therein under conditions of varying distortion and relative movement of the areas of the housing walls having the bearings therein, and a counter device connected with the shaft for operation thereby with each rotary movement thereof the improvement which consists of a temperature indicating device for use with said conduit system comprising (a) an adapter which is partially shaped to be detachably connected to said continuous weighing mechanism at said outlet thereof, said adapter being provided with a nipple in the side wall thereof;

• (b) a sensing probe which is slideably mounted within said nipple, said sensing probe extending throughout the entire length of said nipple and into the interior portion of said adapter whereby the sensing probe will be in thermoconducting relation with the fluid material moving through said adapter;
• (c) a control module containing input and output circuits, disposed remotely from said sensing probe and interconnected therewith by suitable electrically conductive means, said control module adapted to receive a signal from said sensing probe via said input circuit and upon preset circuitry conditions, activate an outside electrical power supply through said output circuit.

In a fluid system wherein is interposed a continuous weighing mechanism of the type which utilizes a gravity operated scale receiver supported for movement alternately between two positions and into which the fluid enters in the form of a continuous stream and from which it passes intermittently in said alternate movements in the form of separated batches, the improvement which consists in a temperature indicating device for use with said fluid system comprising (a) an adapter which is partially shaped to be detachably connected to said continuous weighing mechanism and incorported into said fluid system on that portion of said continuous weighing mechanism where the fluid passes therefrom, said adapter being provided with a nipple in the side wall thereof;

• (b) a sensing probe which is slideably mounted within said nipple, said sensing probe extending throughout the entire length of said nipple and into the interior portion of said adapter whereby the sensing probe will be in thermoconducting relation with the fluid moving through said adapter;
• (c) a control module containing input and output circuits, disposed remotely from said sensing probe and interconnected therewith by suitable electrically conductive means, said control module adapted to receive a signal from said sensing probe through said input circuit and upon preset circuitry conditions, activate an outside electrical power supply through the said output circuit.