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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2003
Stephen M. Angood, Gloucestershire, GB;
David R. Mcmurtry, Gloucestershire, GB;
Stephen M. Angood, Gloucestershire, GB;
David R. McMurtry, Gloucestershire, GB;
Renishaw PLC, Gloucestershire, GB;
Abstract
A measuring system for calibrating a machine in which a base () is attachable to a surface of the machine and a housing () is mountable on the base, wherein at least one surface of the base and at least one surface of the housing are each provided with a complementary part of a mounting device, such that when the two parts of the mounting device are connected together, the housing may be aligned in any of a plurality of predetermined directions. The base includes a lifting mechanism () which when lowered allows the complementary parts of the mounting device () of the housing () and the base () to be in contact and when raised causes them to at least partly break contact with one another. The level of the base () may be adjusted using a system of balls and tapered rollers.