摘要:
A light operated guard for a path which may be followed by a person or part of a person with a purpose of raising an alarm, of closing the path or stopping dangerous machinery, which utilises a modulated beam of light which traverses the said path and falls upon a photocell associated with a frequency sensitive device which acts to inhibit the raising of an alarm or the closing of the path or the stopping of the dangerous machinery or the like while the beam is uninterrupted the one to maintain a constant loop gain and the other to nullify spurious signals due to vibration and other mechanical effects due to motion of the parts of the apparatus during operation of the same.
摘要:
The thickness of a coating, such as an ink film, on a substrate, such as a printing surface, is determined by supporting a transducer on a cushion of gas at a constant distance from the surface of the coating of the coated substrate as the coated substrate is moved past the transducer. The transducer is of the type which has an electrical property which varies in dependence on the proximity of the transducer to a surface of electrically conductive material and the presence of the coating on the substrate causes a variation in the distance between the transducer and a surface of electrically conductive material (which may be the surface of the substrate) in accordance with the coating thickness. The resultant change in electrical property is determined and is a measure of the coating thickness. When applying coatings, the amount of coating material applied to a subsequent portion of the substrate may be regulated in dependence on the thickness of the coating on a preceding portion of the substrate so that the thickness of the coating on the subsequent portion of the substrate is equal to a desired thickness.
摘要:
An incident-light dark ground illumination system for a microscope includes an optical element having at one side an inlet region through which an axially directed light beam is admitted so as to be reflected by a first reflecting surface, at an opposite side of the element, towards a second reflecting surface which surrounds the inlet region and reflects the light back again so that it leaves the element as an output beam surrounding the first reflecting surface. A reflector device having a transparent central area, for transmitting light from an objective to an eyepiece of the microscope, and a nontransmitting peripheral reflecting area surrounding the central area, receives the output beam obliquely so as to produce therefrom an annular reflected beam for delivery to an annular input face of an apertured microscope condenser.
摘要:
A SPECIMEN SURFACE IS INVESTIGATED WITH AN OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT THAT BRINGS A PENCIL OF LIGHT TO A POINT FOCUS WHICH OSCILLATES LONGTUDINALLY ABOUT THE SURFACE. IN DEPENDENCE UPON LIGHT REFLECTED FROM THE SURFACE, PHOTOELECTRONIC MEANS PROVIDE AN ELECTRIC SIGNAL CONTROLLING DISPLACEMENT OF A REFLECTING SURFACE OF THE ARRANGEMENT TO BRING THE MEANS POSITION ABOUT WHICH THE FOCUS OSCILLATES TOWARDS COINCIDENCE WITH THE SURFACE.
摘要:
An optical device, for imposing a preselected degree of curvature upon an optical field associated with an image-bearing incident light beam, employs a light-polarizing beam splitter for splitting the incident light beam into a transmitted first beam and a reflected second beam, which first and second beams are linearly polarized in mutually perpendicular respective directions. Respective concave mirrors reflect the first and second beams so as to return them to the beam splitter, but respective polarization-changing members, mounted between the beam splitter and the concave mirrors, rotate the directions of linear polarization of the first and the second beams through 90* in the course of their passage from and back to the beam splitter. As a result, the returned first beam is reflected by the beam splitter, and the returned second beam is transmitted thereby for recombination with the first beam to form a single output beam.
摘要:
One wall of an enclosure unit that bounds a working chamber in the unit is formed with a slot which is sealed over in slidable manner by a cover plate. The cover plate has an aperture which can be moved along the slot, and a tool (for example a chargedparticle gun) can be attached to the cover plate in gastight manner to operate, via the aperture and the slot, upon a workpiece in the chamber. The cover plate is mounted to rotate parallel to the said one wall, and to undergo translational movement transversely with respect to the slot, as the aperture is moved along the slot. Guide means operate on the cover plate to limit its translational movement so that it cannot project beyond two opposite sides of the unit.
摘要:
IN AN ELECTROLYTIC BATH FOR USE IN THE ELECTRO-FORMING OF A BASE METAL SUCH AS IRON, COBALT, NICKEL, TIN, ZINC, MANGANESE AND COPPER, OR A COMBINATION OF TWO OR MORE OF THESE, THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH COMPRISES THAT THE BATH CONTAINS AT LEAST ONE ACETYLENIC COMPOUND DEVOID OF AMINO GROUPS IN AN AMOUNT WITHIN THE RANGE OF 0.1 TO 10 G./1., AT LEAST ONE A,B-UNSATURATED AROMATIC COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF CINNAMIC ACID, CINNAMALDEHYDE, 1,2-BENZOPYRONE AND PHTHALYLACRYLIC ACID, IN AN AMOUNT WITHIN THE RANGE OF 0.1 TO 50 G./1. AND AT LEAST ONE DIFUNCTIONAL AROMATIC ACID CONTAINING IN THE MOLECULE AT LEAST ONE CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUP AND AT LEAST ONE SULPHONIC ACID GROUP AND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF SULPHOPHTHALIC ACID, SULPHOISOPHTHALIC ACID AND SULPHOSALICYLIC ACID, THE DIFUNCTIONAL AROMATIC ACID BEING PRESENT IN THE BATH IN AN AMOUNT WITHIN THE RANGE OF 0.1 TO 100 G./1.