Email Document Reference

Enter your email address below and the reference for this document will be sent to shortly from webmaster@ceesi.com.

Title: Operation And Maintenance Of Solid Rubber Plug Type Regulator
Author: R. H.. Welker
Source: 1967 Gulf Coast Measurement Short Course (Now called ASGMT)
Year Published: 1967
Abstract: The use of rubber in regulators will not predate positive displacement meters, but an odd assortment of them were around to welcome the first Mercedes Benz automobile. Think of that, although we are Inclined to look at current regulators that use rubber valve trim as if the idea had never been tried before. One of the earliest regulators to use rubber for the main working part was patented in 1903 by Metzger and it is interesting to note that his reasons for designing it are much the same as those that Inspire men to use resilient trim today. The Metzger patent had a whopping 16 claims which probably looked great to his lawyers but to the gas man will all sound the same. At any rate, what he was after was a straight flow pattern and a positive shut off. This regulator, which is somewhat like the pinch valve that are currently used to control slurries, had both of these features plus the ability to control fairly well on the low pressures of the day. There was one great stumbling block that f faced this type of regulator in the early 1900s and that was the state of rubber art, there was no rubber available that would stand up effectively in hydrocarbon service.

In order to prevent spam and automated file downloads for documents within the Measurement Library, please follow the instructions below and then you will be able to email a reference to this article.