IP Library Granted Patent US 11,698,319
Granted Patent B2
US 11,698,319 · App. 17/725,134 · Granted Jul 11, 2023

Sampling meter resetter and pressure transmitter combination

Inventors: Kyle J. Wilde (Hillsboro, MO); Daniel C. Lorentz (Des Peres, MO)
Assignee: Kupferle, LLC
G01L19/086G01L19/14G01M3/26
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Patent No.
US 11,698,319
App. No.
17/725,134
Granted
Jul 11, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A pressure transmitter is mounted to the sampling output of a sampling meter resetter. The pressure transmitter and the sampling meter resetter are mounted in a subterranean meter box. In embodiments, the pressure transmitter is removably mounted to a spring-loaded sampling valve.

Claims (19)

1. In combination, a sampling meter resetter, the sampling meter resetter having a body with an access port, a pressure transmitter mounted to the access port, and a water meter mounted to the sampling meter resetter, the water meter comprising an AMI or an AMR remote reading system, the pressure transmitter communicating with the AMI or AMR remote reading system.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein a sampling valve is mounted to the access port, and the pressure transmitter is mounted to the sampling valve.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein the sampling meter resetter, the water meter, and the pressure transmitter are all housed in a subterranean meter box.

4. In combination, a sampling meter resetter, the sampling meter resetter having a body with an access port, a sampling valve mounted to the access port,the sampling valve comprising a valve body biased into engagement with a valve seat, and a pressure transmitter mounted to the sampling valve, the pressure transmitter comprising an adapter sized and constructed to move the valve body away from the valve seat when the pressure transmitter is mounted to the sampling valve.

5. The combination of claim 4 wherein the sampling valve comprises a housing having external threads, the adapter comprising internal threads mating with the external threads.

6. The combination of claim 4 further comprising a water meter mounted to the sampling meter resetter, the water meter comprising an AMI or an AMR remote reading system, the pressure transmitter communicating with the AMI or AMR remote reading system.

7. The combination of claim 4 wherein the sampling meter resetter and the pressure transmitter are housed in a subterranean meter box.

8. In combination,

a subterranean sampling valve attached to a subterranean water system, the subterranean sampling valve comprising a spring-loaded valve,

a water condition transmitter attached to the spring-loaded valve and holding the spring-loaded valve open, and

an enclosure enclosing the subterranean sampling valve and the pressurc water condition-transmitter.

9. The combination of claim 8 wherein the subterranean sampling valve comprises a plunger slidably mounted in a body, the spring-loaded valve being openable by depressing the plunger.

10. The combination of claim 9 wherein the body has an exterior coupling, the water condition transmitter having an adapter formed and sized to engage the exterior coupling and depress the plunger.

11. The combination of claim 8 further comprising a water meter mounted in the enclosure, the water meter comprising a remote reading system, the pressure transmitter communicating with the remote reading system.

12. The combination of claim 11 wherein the remote reading system is an AMI or an AMR remote reading system.

13. The combination of claim 8 wherein the water condition transmitter is a pressure transmitter.

14. The combination of claim 8 wherein the water condition transmitter is wired to a wireless transmitter.

15. In combination, a sampling meter resetter, the sampling meter resetter having a body with an inlet and an outlet, a water meter connected between the inlet and the outlet of the body, an access port in the body, a pressure transmitter mounted to the access port, a power source electrically attached to the pressure transmitter, and a signal transmitter electrically attached to the pressure transmitter.

16. The combination of claim 15 wherein the sampling meter resetter, the water meter, and the pressure transmitter are all housed in a subterranean meter box.

Assignments (3)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 14, 2023
From: KUPFERLE, LLC
To: CARROLLTON BANK
Reel/Frame 062696/0640 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 27, 2023
From: JOHN C. KUPFERLE FOUNDRY COMPANY; DGM ENTERPRISES, L.L.C.
To: KUPFERLE, LLC
Reel/Frame 062516/0711 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 6, 2022
From: WILDE, KYLE J.; LORENTZ, DANIEL C.
To: JOHN C. KUPFERLE FOUNDRY COMPANY
Reel/Frame 059839/0270 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63177087 · Apr 20, 2021
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