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US 4,051,523 AGranted
Submersible camera
AssigneeHydro Products, Inc.
InventorsMilton Laikin, George L. Hatchett
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Abstract
A closed circuit television camera intended to be lowered into a body of water to inspect articles within the water. The camera has a lens capable of movement of 90.degree. each side of its normal axis, thus permitting the camera to scan an angle of 180.degree. from one side to the other.
Claims7
A camera which includes:
- a housing;
- a transparent closure at one end of said housing;
- an image pick-up tube within said housing;
- a lens within said housing positioned with its field of view extending through said transparent closure, adapted to form an image on said pick-up tube;
- means for rotating said lens about a scan axis so that its field of view will sweep from side to side, the plane in which said lens rotates passing through the axis of said housing;
- an optical joint rotatable about said scan axis to transmit said image from said lens toward said image pick-up tube;
- image rotating means adapted to rotate said image on said pick-up tube and in a plane perpendicular to the plane of rotation of said lens;
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- motor means operable to rotate said lens about said scan axis and simultaneously to rotate said image rotating means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.