Patents Examined by Hezrow Williams
  • Patent number: 4534211
    Abstract: A testing apparatus for quantitatively measuring the creepability property of liquids, especially tracer liquids, such as penetrants and leak tracers. The preferred embodiment of the apparatus essentially comprises: a rotatable, cylinder-like shaped base member having a longitudinal indentation therein substantially in the shape of a "V", with a depression at the vertex of the "V"; and, a metal, rectangularly-shaped panel member having a plurality of adjacent, straight, parallel-spaced grooves therein which are perpendicular to the bottom end of the panel member, with the grooves having length markings therealong indicating the distance from the bottom end, and with the panel member positioned by its bottom end in a vertical-like angled attitude in the depression of the "V"-shaped longitudinal indentation in the rotatable base member. When the liquid to be tested for creepability capability is poured into the "V"-shaped base member indentation, the liquid creeps up the grooves in the panel member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1985
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Orlando G. Molina