Patent ID: 6802219
Filing Date: 2004-10-12
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
A segmented cylindrical tide staff system for erection at remote areas for dynamic calibration of electronic tide meters and computer models of tides, said tide staff system consisting of a plurality of cylindrical tubes, said cylindrical tube being coupled to a flange at its end through a circular orthogonal hole drilled on a flat surface of the flange, said flange being provided with a plurality of equally spaced slots drilled on the flat surface of the flange, one or more outwardly protruding tide indicating arms being mounted on the flange wherein said tide indicating arm consists of two mutually orthogonal planes, wherein one plane is perpendicular to the axis of the tide staff and the other plane is parallel to the axis of the tide staff, said perpendicular plane being provided with a mounting terminal and a circular hole and said parallel plane being partitioned into two compartments by a separating line, and two or more cylindrical tubes being coupled to each other through slots provided on the flange using coupling means,wherein the flange is coupled orthogonal to the axis of the cylindrical tube, wherein the flange is provided with 3 or more equally spaced slots for coupling two or more cylindrical tubes.