Patent GB-732539-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the non-destructive testing of solid bodies by use of ultrasonic oscillations
Inventor: HALLIDAY WILLIAM
IPC: G01N29/06
Filed: 1951-12-13
Abstract: 732,539. Recording-apparatus. KELVIN & HUGHES, Ltd. Dec. 12, 1952 [Dec. 13, 1951], No. 29273/51. Class 106 (4). [Also in Group XXXVIII] In a pulse-echo ultrasonic flow detector having a common transmitting and receiving transducer and an electro-chemical recorder, the recording stylus and a strip of record paper are moved relative to each other in a first direction in correspondence with movement of the transducer over the surface of the body under test and the echo pulses are applied to operate the stylus-via a gate circuit which is opened by a gating pulse whose timing relative to the transmitted pulse is varied in correspondence with relative movement of the stylus and record paper transversely to said first direction so that the transverse displacement of a resultant record mark is proportional to the depth of the flow. As shown in plan view and side elevation in Figs. 1 and 2 respectively, the transducer 10 and recorder 19 are mounted on a pantograph 11 ... 14 pivoted at 17 so that when the transducer is moved along a rectilinear path A-A over the work-piece 16 the recorder 19 follows a reduced rectilinear path B-B over the record strip 18. The transducer 10 is coupled to the recorder 19 via a gate circuit 25 and is also coupled to an ultrasonic generator 21 triggered by a pulse from generator 22 which is also applied as a gating pulse to the gate 25 via a delay device 23, e.g. a flip-flop, mounted on the recorder, the magnitude of the delay being controlled by a knob 24 which also displaces the stylus 26 from the datum line B-B along an arcuate path, Fig. 8 (not shown), by a corresponding amount.. The record: strip may comprise potassim iodide paper such that the intensity of a record mark is proportional to the amplitude of the echo pulse. In a simplified embodiment, Fig. 6 (not shown), the transducer and recorder are mounted on opposite sides of a carriage which is slidable along two spaced guides parallel to the directions A-A and B-B. In a further embodiment. Fig. 4, the recorder is stationary and the record strip 18 is wound upwards by, roller 34 as the transducer is moved downwards, the stylus being displaced transversely by knob 24 either along an arcuate path as in Figs. 1 and 2 or along a rectilinear path. The transducer 10 is mounted on a member 28 which is slidable transversely to line A-A on a frame 29 which is slidable in the direction A-A on guides 30. Frame. 29 is connected by a wire 31 to a spring roller 32 coupled through a ratchet drive. and reduction gear 33 to rollers 34 which pull the record paper 18 from a reel 27 against the action, of a friction brake 35, when the transducer is moved downwards. The records corresponding to successive horizontally displaced vertical sweeps of the transducer are thus produced end-to-end on the record strip 18, Figs. 9 and 10 (not shown). In a modification, Fig. 5, the frame 29 is moved intermittently in the direction A-A by an electric motor 42 driving a lead screw 40 through a clutch 43 and during, the rest periods of transducer 10 the recorder 19 is moved slowly to the left and then rapidly back again by a rack-and-pinion 38, 37 ganged to the delay control knob 24 and driven by a motor 46 controlled by a device 45 actuated by a trip device 44 and reversing and stop contacts 48, 51. If the motor 42 is disconnected the trip device 44 can be actuated manually by push-button 50. In this embodiment the received signals cause the stylus to trace a line parallel to the direction B-B, the length of the trace being proportional to the amplitude of the received signal, Fig. 11 (not shown).