BROWN AUTOMATIC SIGNALING PYROMETER
In large heat-treating plants it has been customary to maintain an operator at a central pyrometer, and by colored electric lights at the furnaces, signal whether the temperatures are correct or not. It is common practice to locate three lights above each furnace-red, white and green. The red light burns when the temperature is too low, the white light when the temperature is within certain limits—for example, 20°F. of the correct temperature—and the green light when the temperature is too high.
FIG. 130.—Brown automatic signaling pyrometer.
Instruments to operate the lights automatically have been devised and one made by Brown is shown in Fig. 130. The same form of instrument is used for this purpose to automatically control furnace temperatures, and the pointer is depressed at intervals of every 10 sec. on contacts corresponding to the red, white and green lights.
FIG. 131.—Automatic temperature control.