Patent ID: 7005019

Claim:
A method of assembling a Coriolis flow meter, comprising: providing a flow meter structure having a base and two legs, where the two legs are attached to the base and are in a spaced apart relationship, the two legs each having a cylindrical opening through the leg, where the two cylindrical openings are aligned in a co-axial relationship; providing a flexible fluoropolymer flow tube having an outer diameter, where the outer diameter is configured to fit into the two cylindrical openings in the two legs while leaving a predefined gap; placing the non-rigid flow tube into the two cylindrical openings where a section of the non-rigid flow tube extends between the two legs, and where the flow tube creates two predefined gaps between the outer diameter of the flow tube and the inner diameter of the two openings; inserting an adhesive in the two predefined gaps; holding the outer surface of the section of the flexible fluoropolymer flow tube extending between the two legs in an essentially straight configuration while the inserted adhesive cures.