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Gerdts, J. C., Jr.

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Mechanical planetary compensating drive system

Drive enables two concentric output shafts to be controlled independently or rotated as a unit. Possible uses are pointing and tracking devices, rotary camera shutters with variable light control, gimbal systems with yaw and pitch movement, spectrometer mirror scanning devices, etc.

Zeiger, R. J.