Accession Number:
AD0163713
Title:
Rotating Mirror.
Descriptive Note:
Patent,
Corporate Author:
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON D C
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1962-06-26
Pagination or Media Count:
2.0
Abstract:
The invention relates generally to mirrors and more particularly to a structure and method for manufacturing rotary mirrors suitable for use in high speed photography. The patent describes a rotatable mirror comprising a lightweight, high strength prismatic shaped blank having a central axis through its polygonal ends for rotation of said blank, and a glass mirror secured to each parallelogram of said blank, each of said glass mirrors having cylindrical curvatures forming plano-concave mirror sections lying in the direction of the axis of said blank.
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Subject Categories:
- Photography