101 |
Around-the-corner adjustment device |
US853263 |
1986-04-17 |
US4669324A |
1987-06-02 |
Charles F. deMey; Igor E. Dolgen |
An adjustment device is provided having a block with two longitudinal bores therethrough joined by a slot. A movable member, having a threaded hole therethrough, is slidingly disposed in one bore, and a movable ball and a fixed member, having a curvilinear surface, are disposed in the other. A set screw, having a conical point, is inserted through the slot and screwed through the movable member so that the conical point engages both the fixed member and the movable ball. Further movement of the set screw forces the cone point between the fixed and movable balls, thus causing the movable ball to move away from the fixed ball. |
102 |
Electronic test head positioner for test systems |
US522635 |
1983-08-11 |
US4589815A |
1986-05-20 |
Nathan R. Smith |
A system for positioning an electronic test head of a test system with respect to an electronic device handler. A positioner assembly moves vertically and provides substantial movement in the horizontal plane with six degrees of freedom. The positioner assembly includes a section for attaching the test head. A counterbalancing assembly is coupled to the positioner assembly to provide a substantially weightless condition to the positioner assembly with the test head attached. |
103 |
Device for the orientation and the positioning of a useful load |
US359715 |
1982-03-04 |
US4556182A |
1985-12-03 |
Richard H. Bentall; Henry M. Briscoe |
The present device comprises in combination a first element consisting of a base plate (8), at least a second element having a substantially cylindrical shape (9), of which one of its faces is in an inclined plane, at least a third element having a substantially cylindrical shape (10) of which one of its faces is an inclined plane, a fourth element consisting of a support plate (11) for the useful load, motor means for actuating at least one of those elements with respect to at least one of the other elements, means for coupling these elements between each other allowing a relative rotation of said elements, and means capable of preventing the rotation of one of said elements with respect to another of said elements. The device can be used for the orientation, positioning or displacement of a useful load, particularly to the pointing of solar panels, satellite antennae, telescopes, etc. |
104 |
Electronic test head positioner for test systems |
US411311 |
1982-08-25 |
US4527942A |
1985-07-09 |
Nathan R. Smith |
A system for positioning an electronic test head of a test system with respect to an electronic device handler. A housing is provided having a vertical shaft. A positioner assembly moves vertically with respect to the shaft and provides substantial movement in the horizontal plane with six degrees of freedom. The positioner assembly includes a section for attaching the test head. A counterbalancing assembly is coupled to the positioner assembly and has a counterweight to provide a substantially weightless condition to the positioner assembly with the test head attached. |
105 |
Method and apparatus for adjusting and mounting optical components in
optical instruments |
US478892 |
1983-03-25 |
US4496416A |
1985-01-29 |
Meinrad Machler; Richard Sachse; Horst Stacklies; Achim Schindler |
For the adjustment and mounting of an optical component in an optical instrument, the optical component is held by an adjusting device not forming part of the instrument. After the adjusting process is completed, the component is attached to the instrument by a liquid or pasty substance which solidifies with slight change in volume. The optical component or its mount and the instrument are so developed that a form-locked, force-locked, or adherence-locked attachment is produced between them. The adjusting process can be made objective by a position-resolving receiver; the evaluation of the adjustment image and the carrying out of the adjustment movements can be effected by a computer which can also carry out the entire adjustment process completely automatically. After the firm attachment of the optical component to the instrument, the adjusting device is removed. |
106 |
Device for the fine adjustment in all three directions of space of an
instrument arranged on a base |
US197983 |
1980-10-23 |
US4365521A |
1982-12-28 |
Kurt Kohler |
A device for the fine adjustment in all three directions in space of an instrument arranged on a base by means of an actuating member. The actuating member consists of a handle the turning of which acts, via a universal joint, on the parts of the base adapted to provide vertical displacement of the instrument, and of an inner lever which when moved around the pivot point defined by the universal joint effects the horizontal displacement of the instrument with respect to a base plate. The inner lever is swingable towards all sides in a sleeve firmly connected with the base and its lower end is adapted with a ball foot which rests directly on the base plate. The bearing sleeve of the inner lever is arranged in or near the plane of the cardan joint; the radius of the ball foot corresponds to the distance between the bearing sleeve and the base plate. |
107 |
Method for servicing a steam generator |
US164859 |
1980-07-01 |
US4347652A |
1982-09-07 |
Frank W. Cooper, Jr.; Raymond P. Gastner |
A servicing machine for a steam generator is accurately set up in the generator channel head with a pivoted arm mounted for rotation in a plane parallel to the tubesheet. The angular position of the arm, the longitudinal position of a carriage mounted on the arm and the vertical position of a platform on the carriage are remotely controlled to maneuver a probe used in mapping the precise location of the thousands of holes in the tubesheet. Various operations are then performed at each precise hole location by tools carried by the arm mounted carriage to prepare for installation of new tubing. The operation of a pair of remotely controlled pivoted arms, one on each side of the channel head divider plate, is coordinated to automatically position the ends of U-shaped tubes in corresponding holes in the tubesheet on opposite sides of the divider plate and to secure the same in place. |
108 |
Control device for optical apparatus |
US96150 |
1979-11-20 |
US4322128A |
1982-03-30 |
David G. Brake |
A control device for optical apparatus, particularly an image stabilizer for a hand-held camera, comprises a control mechanism such as a gyroscope rotor or inertial mass mechanically coupled to a mirror which receives light from a scene viewed and reflects this light into a prism from which the light is further reflected to the apparatus. The gyroscope rotor or mass tends to maintain its position during vibration and tremor of the device and this relative movement is transmitted to the mirror to maintain steady the image seen by the apparatus. The material of the prism produces refractive effects which enable the mirror to be small enough to allow mechanical coupling thereof of the control mechanism, i.e. without servo-motors, while still accommodating the wide field of view normally accepted by a camera.The invention may also be applied to a device which steers the line of sight of the apparatus. |
109 |
Test arrangement for the non-destructive testing of metallic test pieces |
US27711 |
1979-04-09 |
US4314203A |
1982-02-02 |
Peter Haberlein |
A test arrangement for non-destructive defect testing of metallic test pieces includes test probes which contactingly move across the surface of a test piece. Resilient members act on the testhead carrying the probes, one at each side of the testhead center of gravity, enabling the testhead to extend beyond the test piece edge while maintaining good contact between the probes and test piece. The testhead is adjustable with respect to the test piece surface and is maintained at a constant spacing from the test piece irrespective of test piece surface irregularities. |
110 |
Magnetometer apparatus with detector immobilized in wax |
US93329 |
1979-11-13 |
US4292590A |
1981-09-29 |
James H. Wilson |
A magnetometer assembly wherein a magnetometer detector suspended from a gimbal is immersed in a wax so as to immobilize the detector. Desired gimbal operation is achieved by heating the wax in the vicinity of the detector. |
111 |
Automatic self-leveling instrument mount |
US45692 |
1979-06-05 |
US4265027A |
1981-05-05 |
Edward W. Burniski |
A self-leveling instrument mount comprises an instrument table pivotally mounted above a stationary frame on first, second and third vertical support arms. The first support arm is a fixed length member connected to the frame through a ball and socket joint. The second and third support arms are formed of screws extending between the table and frame having effective lengths that are controlled, respectively, by first and second servo motors in response to a pendulum switch to maintain the table parallel to a horizontal reference plane. The pendulum is magnetically damped during operation of the servo motors for stabilization. A mercury switch on the table disables the servo motors when the tilt of the table is too large to be leveled by the support screws. |
112 |
Method for servicing a steam generator |
US952431 |
1978-10-18 |
US4262402A |
1981-04-21 |
Frank W. Cooper, Jr.; Raymond P. Castner |
A servicing machine for a steam generator is accurately set up in the generator channel head with a pivoted arm mounted for rotation in a plane parallel to the tubesheet. The angular position of the arm, the longitudinal position of a carriage mounted on the arm and the vertical position of a platform on the carriage are remotely controlled to maneuver a probe used in mapping the precise location of the thousands of holes in the tubesheet. Various operations are then performed at each precise hole location by tools carried by the arm mounted carriage to prepare for installation of new tubing. The operation of a pair of remotely controlled pivoted arms, one on each side of the channel head divider plate, is coordinated to automatically position the ends of U-shaped tubes in corresponding holes in the tubesheet on opposite sides of the divider plate and to secure the same in place. |
113 |
Stabilized platforms |
US782384 |
1977-03-29 |
US4143312A |
1979-03-06 |
George Duckworth; David R. James |
The invention concerns stabilized platform arrangements of the kind utilized, for example, to carry a rotatable ship's radio antenna, which requires to be stabilized against pitch and roll. A control system is provided which includes means for relating error signals representative of deviations in pitch and roll to orthogonal axes fixed with respect to the antenna, by conversion to angular errors in two orthogonal planes, the elevation and cross elevation planes, containing the reference axis about which the antenna rotates. |
114 |
Mounting of optical fibres or other filaments in axial alignment with
one another or with other elements |
US503059 |
1974-09-04 |
US3954338A |
1976-05-04 |
Geoffrey Frank Hennel; Robert Henry Tappin |
In a connector member for optical fibres, a fibre is coaxially held in a holder member which is supported by a silicone-rubber liner interposed between the bore of a housing and the circumference of the holder with the facility of radial adjustment in two mutually perpendicular directions by set screws making use of the compressibility of the liner. Longitudinal adjustment of the fibre is also provided by securing the fibre in a collet bush, in which it is held by a split collet, and which itself is longitudinally adjustable by a hollow coaxial set screw in a guide bore of an outer bush. An assembly jig is also described, in which a retractable tray of a wall supports the collet in front of an axial bore of a slide. This bore accommodates the collet bush, while a filament constituting the fibre is extended in the requisite position, in which it is located by V-grooves in end wall members of the jig. |
115 |
Weight-balancing arrangement at vertically displaceable instrument tables for ophthalmological apparatus or the like |
US3738632D |
1971-03-05 |
US3738632A |
1973-06-12 |
MAYERHOFER F |
A weight-balancing arrangement on essentially vertically displaceable instrument tables for ophthalmological apparatus or the like which includes a pull rope connected with a spring and engaging at the apparatus support approximately in the centroidal axis thereof to counteract the weight; the drawing direction of the spring extends in an approximately horizontal plane while the rope is connected at one end with a downward extension of the apparatus support and over a section thereof is guided by way of reversing rollers in the direction of movement of the apparatus support.
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116 |
Melting control device |
US31586063 |
1963-10-14 |
US3276692A |
1966-10-04 |
SCHULTZ ROBERT L |
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117 |
Adjustable light source mount for marine lanterns |
US4612160 |
1960-07-29 |
US3061259A |
1962-10-30 |
TROCCOLI ARTHUR M |
984,691. Clamp fastenings. ELASTIC STOP NUT CORPORATION OF AMERICA. July 25, 1961 [July 29, 1960], No. 26955/61. Heading E2B. [Also in Division F4] A mounting assembly for adjustably positioning an article supporting bracket comprises a fixed support arm having a stud extending therefrom, a bushing slidable on the stud and biased away from the support arm and having an extended top and a dependent body portion surrounded by a collar of a size such that its upper edge is spaced a predetermined distance from the extended portion to define a slot to receive the bracket, means for locking the bushing to the stud and means for moving and displacing the bushing and collar relatively to the stud. As applied to the lamp mounting means in the marine lantern described in Specification 884,214, three fixed arms 26 project outwardly from a mounting ring, each carrying a depending stud 78 having a flat 80. A bushing 152 having an extended head 150 and a body portion 142 is mounted on the stud 78, a spring 140 being interposed between the arm 26 and the top of the bushing. A cap 146 surrounds the part 142 and is pressed against this by a wing nut 148, a spring washer being interposed. Each supporting arm 160 of the lamp carrying means engages between the parts 150, 146. A set-screw 144 passes through a hole in the side of the cap for engaging the flat 80 to lock the bushing to the stud. Adjustment of the position of the lamp in the lantern is effected by manipulating the wing nuts 148 and the bushings are then locked in position by the set screws 144. Release of the wing nuts then enables the arms 160 to be released so that the mounting ring can be replaced by another without altering the setting. |
118 |
Optical plummet |
US10723849 |
1949-07-28 |
US2679181A |
1954-05-25 |
KEUFFEL CARL W; PHILIP KISSAM; BAKER ALLISTER L |
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119 |
Stabilized support |
US12749749 |
1949-11-15 |
US2672312A |
1954-03-16 |
DRUEDING CHARLES J |
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120 |
Optical plummet |
US11910949 |
1949-10-01 |
US2633050A |
1953-03-31 |
BAKER ALLISTER L |
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