Machine element or mechanism – Gyroscopes – With caging or parking means
Patent
1986-03-05
1987-09-01
Bonck, Rodney H.
Machine element or mechanism
Gyroscopes
With caging or parking means
74 56D, 74 57, G01C 1912, G01C 1926
Patent
active
046900071
ABSTRACT:
A miniature gyroscope having a gas-turbine reaction rotor of dumb-bell form which comprises a pair of masses (62,63) one spaced from the other at opposite ends of a shaft, and an inner gimbal (61) which extends into the space between the two masses and there provides a rotational mounting for the rotor, and means (42) for feeding to the rotor, through the space between the pair of rotor masses, gas to be discharged from the rotor to cause it to spin.
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patent: 2720602 (1955-10-01), Dolude
patent: 2911832 (1959-11-01), Thierman
patent: 3192777 (1965-07-01), Zatsky et al.
"Development of a Cordite-Driven Gyroscope", Minihan, Proc. Instn. Mech. Engrs. 1964-65, vol. 179 Pt. 3E, paper 14, pp. 120-128.
McMahon Colbert M.
Moles John A. G.
Bonck Rodney H.
Short Brothers PLC
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