摘要 |
A liquid-flow measuring device particularly useful as a drip chamber for infusion administration sets includes a housing having an internal chamber for accumulating the liquid dripping thereinto by gravity introduced via an inlet port which terminates in a first bore leading to a second bore. The housing further includes an air return leading to the juncture of the first and second bores, such that the liquid flowing through the first bore forms a liquid column in the second bore which liquid column grows by gravity until it breaks and drops into the chamber, the length and/or rate the liquid columns grow before passing into the chamber thereby providing a measurement of the rate of flow of the liquid through the device.
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