Patent ID: 6883390

Claim:
A system for measuring dynamic force of impacting air/water spray comprising: a pitot-tube section being aligned to receive a longitudinal flow of an impacting spray of air and water in a laterally extending orifice; a first differential pressure transducer being coupled to said pitot-tube section for producing signals representative of velocity of said air/water spray at said orifice; a rain gage section adjacent to said pitot-tube section, said rain gage section receiving and collecting volumes of water of said longitudinal flow of said air/water spray through a laterally extending opening; a second pressure differential transducer coupled to said rain gage section for producing signals representative of said volumes of water collected in said rain gage section; and a computer-based control/readout module connected to receive said velocity representative signals and said water volume representative signals for indicating the magnitude of dynamic force attributed to impacting air/water spray in said opening.