Method and means for measuring surface tension
OwnerKjell I. Olsson, Anders E. B. Aberg +1inventors
InventorsKjell I. Olsson, Anders E. B. Aberg, Lars O. S. Gislen
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Abstract
A method and means of measuring the surface tension of a liquid wherein the liquid is discharged from a liquid container by a pump. After passage through a discharge pipe, the discharged liquid enters a nozzle in which stable drops of liquid are formed. In order to determine surface tension, the pump displacement necessary to provide the amount of liquid for forming each drop is measured.
Claims9
A method of measuring the surface tension of a liquid comprising the steps of:
- (a) discharging the liquid from a liquid container by a pump;
- (b) forming a drop from the discharged liquid;
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- (c) measuring the pump displacement necessary to provide the amount of liquid required for forming the drop.
A method of measuring the surface tension of a liquid comprising the steps of:
- (a) discharging the liquid from a container by a pump having a displaceable member;
- (b) operating the pump to effect said discharging step by pulses;
- (c) forming a predetermined number of drops from the discharged liquid;
- (d) recording the number of pulses required to operate the pump to execute the pump displacement needed to form the predetermined number of drops;
- (e) counting the number of drops formed with a sensing device;
- (f) calculating, in a calculating device for processing information derived from said recording and counting steps, the pump displacement to discharge each drop of liquid;
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- (g) computing, from the calculation of pump displacement to discharge each drop, the surface tension of the discharged liquid.
A device for measuring the surface tension of a liquid comprising:
- (a) a liquid container;
- (b) a pump for discharging liquid from said container, said pump having a displaceable member;
- (c) a liquid discharge pipe coupled with said pump for receiving and transporting the discharged liquid;
- (d) a nozzle disposed downstream of said dishcarge pipe in spaced, non-sealing relationship therewith for forming the discharged liquid into drops, said nozzle including a receiving portion, a flow restriction and a conically divergent end portion which tapers towards an extreme end-edge to form a sharp end-edge;
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- (e) means for measuring the pump displacement necessary to provide the amount of liquid to form a drop of discharged liquid;
- (f) whereby air may contact the liquid as it passes from the discharge pipe to the nozzle to create an ejector action and whereby the passage of liquid through the nozzle forms stable drops to be counted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.