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Title: Bell Prover Operation
Author: H. V. Beck
Source: 1941 Southwestern Gas Measurement Short Course (Now called ISHM)
Year Published: 1941
Abstract: A gas meter is tested lor accuracy of registration by passing through it a volume of air from a prover and comparing the registration of tlie index of the meter with the accurate volume which is indicated by the prover. As usually constructed, the meter prover consists of a cylindrical metal tank open at the top and nearly filled with oil or water, in which a smaller cylindrical tank called the bell, open at the bottom and having a dome-shaped top, can be raised or lowered. tPigure 125). The liquid acting as a seal prevents air from entering or leaving the bell except through a pipe called the dry well which extends from the outside of the prover tank down underneath it and up on the inside to a point above the level of the liquid. The prover tank is generally made of two concentric tanks with a distance of about two inches between them, the inner tank having an air-tight top tlirough which the air supply pipe passes. This method of construction decreases the quantity of liquid lequired to seal the bell and permits more rapid temperature adjustment of the liquid. The prover tank is mounted on three short legs which raise it off the floor, so that better circulation can be obtained around the tank.

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