Centrifugal weights orienting system

A centrifuging weights orienting system comprising:

• a rotor mounted about a first axis for rotation at a fixed angular velocity;
• first driving means for driving the rotor to rotate about the first axis;
• two centrifuging weights rotatably mounted about a common, second axis which is anchored at its ends to the rotor and intersects at right angles to the first axis;
• second driving means for driving the two centrifuging weights into oppositely directed rotations about the second axis at substantially the same fixed, angular velocity;
• control means actuated by the rotation of the rotor at activate the second driving means for achieving the oppositely directed rotations;
• said second driving means including a set of two driven gears each fixedly attached to one of the centrifuging weights, and also including means for synchronizing the oppositely directed rotations so that at periodic, predetermined time intervals the centrifuging weights are oriented in a common and fixed, prespecified spatial direction;
• said control means comprising a common driving mechanism mechanically coupled to the driven gears for simultaneously driving these gears and the two attached centrifuging weights thereby achieving the oppositely directed rotations;
• said common driving mechanism comprising a stationary anchor shaft inside the rotor and an anchor gear attached onto the anchor shaft which has an axis of rotation substantially coinciding with the first axis;
• said anchor shaft being adjustable in rotational angular position to thereby define the common and fixed, spatial direction toward which the two centrifuging weights are periodically oriented;
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• means for adjusting the angular position in a predetermined manner.