Abstract: A method and apparatus for quickly determining leakage of a test chamber in a production environment wherein a reference chamber is exposed to the same temperature effects as those existing in the test chamber and gas pressures are applied to the reference and test chambers and the pressures are compared in the test and reference chambers and relative changes of such pressures are read as a function of leakage.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting leaks in a test chamber utilizing pressurization of the chamber with a gas, compares the rate of change of the gas pressure in the test chamber with the rate of change of the temperature of that chamber with the difference in such rates of change being read as a function of test chamber leakage.

Abstract: Leakage of a pipe wall is detected by forming a test chamber around the pipe radially opposite the wall area to be tested by bringing together a pair of test chamber halves each including a semi-annular anvil segment, an outer housing segment and an elastomeric seal sandwiched between the segments with the ends of the anvil segments of the respective test chamber halves being brought into abutment and continued closing movement of the test chambers causing the outer housing segments to extrude the elastomeric seals radially inwardly around the non-yielding anvil and against the pipe surface and circumferentially to effect a hermetic seal at the meeting ends of the test chamber halves and at the pipe wall surface. Thereafter the test chamber formed between the pipe surface and the encircling anvil ring is pressurized and changes in the pressure are read as a function of pipe wall leakage.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring the volume of a chamber in a part, such as the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine cylinder head by, comparing the test chamber with a reference chamber of known volume, wherein the reference chamber is exposed to the part containing the test chamber so that ambient variables are minimized, and accurately controlled quantities of a gas are injected into each chamber and the difference in pressures in the chambers read as a function of test chamber volume, and thereafter the rate of change of pressure differences in the chambers is read as a function of chamber leakage and the volume measurement discarded if the rate of change exceeds a determined value.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting leaks in a test chamber utilizing pressurization of the chamber with a gas, compares the rate of change of the gas pressure in the test chamber with the rate of change of the temperature of that chamber with the difference in such rates of change being read as a function of test chamber leakage.