	US 7,475,602 B2
	Process for mounting a clamp-on flow rate measurement device and mounting device for attaching a clamp-on flow rate measurement device
Marcel Meijlom Molenaar, Dordrecht (Netherlands); Jan Teunis Aart Pors, Oud-Beijerland (Netherlands); Jeroen Van Den Berg, Hendrik Ido Ambacht (Netherlands); and Cornelis Johannes Hogendoorn, Spijk (Netherlands)
Assigned to Krohne AG, Basel (Switzerland)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/552,698.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2005 051 336 (DE), filed on Oct. 25, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0251314 A1, Nov. 01, 2007
Int. Cl. G01F 1/20 (2006.01); G01F 15/18 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 73—861.18 [73/866.5; 73/273; 73/201]

8 Claims

1. Process for mounting a clamp-on flow rate measurement device on a measurement pipe through which a fluid can flow, comprising the steps of:

preliminarily attaching a mounting device having a holding strap and a catch means for engaging the holding strap by guiding the holding strap into and through the catch means after the holding strap has been routed around the measurement pipe and pulled tight without being securely fixed on the pipe, a catch element in the catch means interacting with catches of the holding strap,

after the mounting device has been attached to the measurement pipe, attaching a fastening means of the clamp-on flow rate measurement device to a holding means on the catch means of the mounting device without the holding strap being completely tensioned, so that the clamp-on flow rate measurement device is held on the measurement pipe, but is not completely fixed on it,

then aligning the clamp-on flow rate measurement device on the measurement pipe, and

then completely attaching the mounting means and clamp-on flow rate measurement device to the pipe by fully tensioning the holding strap by using the fastening means to lift the catch means off the measurement pipe so that the clamp-on flow rate measurement device is held and fixed on the measurement pipe.