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Apparatus for correcting theodolites

US4136955A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 27, 1976
Grant dateJan 30, 1979
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Expiry dateAug 27, 1996

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01C1/02
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The corrected values to compensate for errors in instrumental levelling of a theodolite and similar instruments are found by determining angles of elevation and/or horizontal directions, measuring the instrumental levelling errors, and calculating the error free values of the instrument.

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