The purpose of this report is to verify experimentally the relations introduced by the analysis in the 3rd report. In the experiments, various kinds and forms of floats and tubes of large or small taper, were tested by water and air. Those experiments prove the results obtained in the 3rd report, and the relation between a position of float and a flow rate is shown to agree with that reduced by the analysis. The effect of the inclination of the tapered tube from the vertical line on the performance was tested, and for an accurate measurement the inclination is explained to have to be kept within 1 degree. The precision of this flow meter was investigated and shown about 0.7%.
From the analysis in the 3rd report and experiments in this report, we get a conclusion that the performance of float-area-type flow meter and the effect of viscosity and density of working fluid can be calculated, and data for designing them can be obtained from the relations introduced in the 3rd report.
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