Patent ID: 6694830
Filing Date: 2004-02-24
Classification: A01J,G01N

Abstract:
An inline sampling device adapted to remove a representative sample drop-wise from a fluid flowing through a fluid line, said sampling device comprising a body, a sampling probe and a sampling container, said body having an inlet, an outlet, said sampling probe disposed in said body between said inlet and said outlet, said sampling probe having at least two fluid receiving, volume relief ports wherein each said drop-wise sample of said fluid is received in said sampling container through at least one of said fluid receiving, volume relief ports, said each drop-wise sample of said fluid displacing an equal volume portion of the volume of said sampling container, said equal volume portion of said volume alternately discharged into said fluid line through at least one of said fluid receiving, volume relief ports wherein said sampling probe has one of said fluid receiving, volume relief ports disposed adjacent a lower inside surface of a bore passing through said body from said inlet to said outlet and another of said fluid receiving, volume relief ports disposed remote from said one fluid receiving, volume relief port, said one fluid receiving, volume relief port adapted to sample heavier molecular weight fractions of said fluid flowing through said fluid line.