Linear micrometer
AssigneeErnst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH
InventorsHerbert Hahn, Hans-Dieter Jacoby, Richard Jung, Erich Schuster
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Abstract
Disclosed is a linear micrometer which comprises a cylindrically shaped housing, a tube-shaped sleeve displaceably mounted along the longitudinal axis of the housing and extending from one end of the housing, a measurement scale fixedly mounted along the longitudinal axis of the housing and slidingly supported inside the spindle sleeve, and a measurement readout means couple to the spindle sleeve for reading and displaying the relative position of the spindle sleeve to the scale. A rapid adjusting means and fine adjusting means are also provided.
Claims18
A linear micrometer comprising:
- a cylindrically shaped housing;
- a tube-shaped sleeve displaceably mounted for displacement along the longitudinal axis of said housing and extending from one end of said housing;
- a measurement scale fixedly mounted along the longitudinal axis of said housing and slidingly supported inside said tube-shaped sleeve, and
- a measurement readout means coupled to said tube-shaped sleeve for reading and displaying the relative position of said tube-shaped sleeve to said scale,
- wherein a single point bearing connects said scale to the end of said housing opposite the end of said extending tube-shaped sleeve.
The linear micrometer of claim 14, comprising further a housing sleeve supported rotatably about said tube-shaped sleeve axis and having a helical groove intersecting with said longitudinal slit at the point of passage of said control bolt through said slit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.