Geometrical instruments – Straight-line light ray type – Level
Patent
1986-12-11
1988-06-21
Stearns, Richard R.
Geometrical instruments
Straight-line light ray type
Level
33DIG8, 33DIG21, 318648, 356399, G01C 502, G01B 1126
Patent
active
047517824
ABSTRACT:
A laser beam levelling instrument has a pipe length which is vertically and centrally mounted in the cover of a casing. The ends of this pipe length are pivotable, so that it can always be held in the vertical position. For this purpose two spirit levels are arranged at right angles to one another on a plate fixed to the lower end of the pipe length. The fluid in these levels is electrically conducting and the levels have electric contact points for operating a respective electric motor. The electric motors are provided with eccentric shafts which come into contact with the circumferential surface of the pipe length. If the pipe length diverges from the vertical, then the current from batteries ensures that it is brought back into the vertical position by means of the eccentric shafts. A laser light source is located in the lower part of the pipe length and a further pipe length is inserted in the upper end of the pipe length and can be rotated by a third electric motor. The further pipe length carries a head with a window. The laser beam enters the head vertically, is diverted there into the horizontal and passes out of the window as a horizontal laser beam.
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Gell Harold
Stearns Richard R.
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