Adjustable optical wedge
OwnerGeorge Dube'inventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and lubricant composition for an adjustable wedge that utilizes the relative positioning of adjacently disposed convex and concave surfaces with equal spherical or cylindrical curvatures contacted together by a thin layer of lubricant.
Claims41
An adjustable wedge comprising at least one first component with a convex surface and at least one second component with a concave surface, the concave and convex surfaces having curvatures which are substantially equal and said concave and convex surfaces being contacted together by a thin layer of lubricant, where all the layers of the wedge have substantially the same index of refraction.
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