Abstract: The bulk flow meter comprises a baffle plate which is arranged inclined in the fall path of the bulk material to be measured and is carried by a rigid support which is mounted displaceably in the direction of a horizontal axis on at least two spring systems which are spaced apart from each other and secured on the one hand to the baffle plate support and on the other hand to the frame, each spring system having at least one pair of spring members arranged opposite each other on either side of the baffle plate support. Each spring member is formed by a corrugated diaphragm section with vertically extending corrugations. The corrugated diaphragms provide a mounting of the baffle plate support with high transverse stability so that it is possible to arrange the baffle plate without modifying the suspension optionally in the longitudinal direction of the baffle plate support or in the transverse direction laterally adjacent the baffle plate support.

Abstract: The device for determining and/or monitoring a predetermined filling level in a container has two oscillatory rods secured with spacing adjacent one another on a diaphragm the edge of which is connected to a screw-in part. By means of the screw-in part the device is so secured in a screw-threaded aperture of the container wall at the height of the filling level to be detected that the oscillatory rods project into the container. At the side of the diaphragm remote from the oscillatory rods a bridging member is held spaced from the diaphragm by flexurally elastic rod-shaped supports. Each of the rod shaped supports is rigidly connected at one end to an oscillatory rod. Between the bridging member and the diaphragm there is held, with preloading of the diaphragm, a transducer column comprising in a stack a piezoelectric excitation transducer and a piezoelectric reception transducer.