GB1042258A - Rotatable mountings - Google Patents

Rotatable mountings

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Publication number
GB1042258A
GB1042258A GB4790263A GB4790263A GB1042258A GB 1042258 A GB1042258 A GB 1042258A GB 4790263 A GB4790263 A GB 4790263A GB 4790263 A GB4790263 A GB 4790263A GB 1042258 A GB1042258 A GB 1042258A
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United Kingdom
Prior art keywords
axis
aerial
turntable
degrees
rotatable
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Expired
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GB4790263A
Inventor
Edward Hugh Thomas
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SECR AVIATION
Minister of Aviation
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SECR AVIATION
Minister of Aviation
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Priority to GB4790263A priority Critical patent/GB1042258A/en
Priority to FR997527A priority patent/FR1415475A/en
Priority to NL6414146A priority patent/NL6414146A/xx
Publication of GB1042258A publication Critical patent/GB1042258A/en
Expired legal-status Critical Current

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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q3/00—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system
    • H01Q3/02—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system using mechanical movement of antenna or antenna system as a whole
    • H01Q3/08—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system using mechanical movement of antenna or antenna system as a whole for varying two co-ordinates of the orientation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60P—VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS
    • B60P3/00—Vehicles adapted to transport, to carry or to comprise special loads or objects
    • B60P3/14—Vehicles adapted to transport, to carry or to comprise special loads or objects the object being a workshop for servicing, for maintenance, or for carrying workmen during work
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16H—GEARING
    • F16H35/00—Gearings or mechanisms with other special functional features
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16M—FRAMES, CASINGS OR BEDS OF ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; SUPPORTS
    • F16M11/00—Stands or trestles as supports for apparatus or articles placed thereon ; Stands for scientific apparatus such as gravitational force meters
    • F16M11/02—Heads
    • F16M11/04—Means for attachment of apparatus; Means allowing adjustment of the apparatus relatively to the stand
    • F16M11/06—Means for attachment of apparatus; Means allowing adjustment of the apparatus relatively to the stand allowing pivoting
    • F16M11/12—Means for attachment of apparatus; Means allowing adjustment of the apparatus relatively to the stand allowing pivoting in more than one direction
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16M—FRAMES, CASINGS OR BEDS OF ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; SUPPORTS
    • F16M11/00—Stands or trestles as supports for apparatus or articles placed thereon ; Stands for scientific apparatus such as gravitational force meters
    • F16M11/02—Heads
    • F16M11/04—Means for attachment of apparatus; Means allowing adjustment of the apparatus relatively to the stand
    • F16M11/06—Means for attachment of apparatus; Means allowing adjustment of the apparatus relatively to the stand allowing pivoting
    • F16M11/12—Means for attachment of apparatus; Means allowing adjustment of the apparatus relatively to the stand allowing pivoting in more than one direction
    • F16M11/126—Means for attachment of apparatus; Means allowing adjustment of the apparatus relatively to the stand allowing pivoting in more than one direction for tilting and panning
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16M—FRAMES, CASINGS OR BEDS OF ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; SUPPORTS
    • F16M11/00—Stands or trestles as supports for apparatus or articles placed thereon ; Stands for scientific apparatus such as gravitational force meters
    • F16M11/20—Undercarriages with or without wheels
    • F16M11/2007—Undercarriages with or without wheels comprising means allowing pivoting adjustment
    • F16M11/2035—Undercarriages with or without wheels comprising means allowing pivoting adjustment in more than one direction
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V21/00—Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices; Hand grips

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Public Health (AREA)
  • Transportation (AREA)
  • Aerials With Secondary Devices (AREA)
  • Variable-Direction Aerials And Aerial Arrays (AREA)

Abstract

1,042,258. Telescope mountings; programmed electric control. MINISTER OF AVIATION. Nov. 25, 1964 [Dec. 4.1963], No. 47902/63. Headings G2J and G3N. [Also in Divisions F4, H3 and H4] A rotatable mounting suitable for a directional apparatus, such as a tracking aerial, or a searchlight, or a telescope, comprises two turntables, one of which is mounted upon the other, with their axes mutually inclined at an acute angle, and means for rotationally driving each turntable independently. As described, a structure 5 having a substantially triangular side elevation is supported on a base 6 by a turntable 7 and is rotatable about a vertical axis A. A structure 4 is supported on the structure 5 by a turntable 8 and is rotatable about an axis B which is inclined at 45 degrees to the vertical. An aerial is mounted on the structure 4, with its axis at 45 degrees to the axis B. With this arrangement, the axis of the aerial may be directed from 0‹ to 90 degrees elevation on any bearing (Figs. 2, 5 not shown). A Cassegrain type aerial may be used, with a paraboloidal main reflector 1, an hyperboloidal secondary reflector 2, and a horn 3 and it may feed receiving apparatus 10 comprising a vacuum flask 11, containing liquid refrigerant 20, which is mounted with its axis parallel to axis B. The aerial being counterbalanced by a weight 12. Alternatively, the secondary reflector 2 may be omitted and part of the receiving apparatus 10 including the flask 11 and the horn 3 may be mounted at the focus of the reflector 1. The turntables may comprise driving motors M1, M2 and digital position indicators P1, P2. The axis of the aerial may be directed according to a programme, for example, for satellite tracking, by feeding instructions from a tape reader T1, Fig. 6 (not shown) to comparators C1, C2 which are also connected to the digital position indicators P1, P2 and the driving motors M1, M2. In a modification, a mobile base 15, Figs. 3, 4 (not shown) with wheels 17, stabilizing beams 18 and retractable feet 19 is provided and the mounting as described above is supported upon it by a further structure 13 associated with a turntable 16 with its axis at 45 degrees to the vertical, which allows the aerial to be stowed for transit in a position of minimum headroom.
GB4790263A 1963-12-04 1963-12-04 Rotatable mountings Expired GB1042258A (en)

Priority Applications (3)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB4790263A GB1042258A (en) 1963-12-04 1963-12-04 Rotatable mountings
FR997527A FR1415475A (en) 1963-12-04 1964-12-04 Rotary support, especially for antenna devices
NL6414146A NL6414146A (en) 1963-12-04 1964-12-04

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Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB4790263A GB1042258A (en) 1963-12-04 1963-12-04 Rotatable mountings

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GB1042258A true GB1042258A (en) 1966-09-14

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Cited By (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE3244225A1 (en) * 1982-11-30 1984-05-30 Teldix Gmbh, 6900 Heidelberg Arrangement for positioning appliances such as antennas, solar generators, etc.
EP0274979A1 (en) * 1986-11-06 1988-07-20 E-Systems Inc. System for mechanically steering an airborne antenna
GB2214298A (en) * 1988-01-14 1989-08-31 British Aerospace Mounting assembly
DE4031856A1 (en) * 1990-10-08 1992-04-09 Krupp Industrietech Windproof support frame for offset paraboloidal reflector antenna - rotates on oblique axis between azimuthal vertical and direction of waves reflected from surface of paraboloid
WO1994007081A1 (en) * 1992-09-17 1994-03-31 Hollandse Signaalapparaten B.V. Apparatus for the three-dimensional orientation of an object
DE19515106A1 (en) * 1995-04-25 1996-10-31 Bernhard Dietz Transmitter or receiver azimuth and elevation setting device
GB2318423A (en) * 1996-10-10 1998-04-22 Alan Garner Telescope mounting
GB2452082A (en) * 2007-08-24 2009-02-25 Vislink Comm Ltd Mount with rotational axes at an oblique angle relative to one another

Families Citing this family (2)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4318522A (en) * 1979-05-01 1982-03-09 Rockwell International Corporation Gimbal mechanism
SE435652B (en) * 1982-12-29 1984-10-08 Ericsson Telefon Ab L M DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING THE PLAN OF A DEVICE PLATFORM IN AN ELECTIBLE SLEEP

Cited By (10)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE3244225A1 (en) * 1982-11-30 1984-05-30 Teldix Gmbh, 6900 Heidelberg Arrangement for positioning appliances such as antennas, solar generators, etc.
EP0274979A1 (en) * 1986-11-06 1988-07-20 E-Systems Inc. System for mechanically steering an airborne antenna
GB2214298A (en) * 1988-01-14 1989-08-31 British Aerospace Mounting assembly
DE4031856A1 (en) * 1990-10-08 1992-04-09 Krupp Industrietech Windproof support frame for offset paraboloidal reflector antenna - rotates on oblique axis between azimuthal vertical and direction of waves reflected from surface of paraboloid
WO1994007081A1 (en) * 1992-09-17 1994-03-31 Hollandse Signaalapparaten B.V. Apparatus for the three-dimensional orientation of an object
US5573218A (en) * 1992-09-17 1996-11-12 Hollandse Signaalapparaten B.V. Apparatus for the three-dimensional orientation of an object
DE19515106A1 (en) * 1995-04-25 1996-10-31 Bernhard Dietz Transmitter or receiver azimuth and elevation setting device
GB2318423A (en) * 1996-10-10 1998-04-22 Alan Garner Telescope mounting
GB2318423B (en) * 1996-10-10 1999-02-24 Alan Garner Rotatable mountings
GB2452082A (en) * 2007-08-24 2009-02-25 Vislink Comm Ltd Mount with rotational axes at an oblique angle relative to one another

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