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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 1990

Filed:

Feb. 28, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:

Alain Poirier, 75116 Paris, FR;

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ; B43L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
33457 ; 33431 ; 33 1 / ;
Abstract

A device is provided for directly reading from a chart the heading to be followed by an air or sea-going vehicle, comprising a disk with, at its periphery, a circular coaxial graduation of the 'compass card' type movable in rotation with respect to this disk, the latter being itself mounted for rotation about a fixed shaft fast with a support, via a rotary mount with offset adjustable in modulus and orientation. The disk further comprises a rectilinear scale for determining the modulus of the offset, as well as a reference mark for indicating the orientation of this offset on the circular graduation. The scale is graduated in successive values representative of the wind (or current) speed/proper speed of the vehicle ratio.


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