Free rotor gas bearing gyro

Claim 1

A FREE ROTOR GYRO COMPRISING A HOUSING FORMED IN TWO SECTIONS, EACH SECTION HAVING A CLOSED-END CAVITY THEREIN, THE CROSS-SECTIONAL CONTOUR OF THE INNER SURFACE OF THE FIRST SECTION OF THE HOUSING BEING IN THE FORM OF AN INVOLUTE CURVE, A PLASTIC INSERT FITTED TO THE SECTION OF THE HOUSING, SAID INSERT HAVING A SPHERICAL SEGMENTAL CENTRAL CAVITY THEREIN, A SPHERICAL SEGMENTAL ROTOR SUPPORT MEMBER HAVING A PAIR OF STUB SHAFTS INTEGRAL THEREWITH, FITTED TO THE HOLLOW HOUSING, CO-AXIALLY THEREWITH, MEANS FORMED ON THE SECTIONS OF THE HOUSING ADAPTED TO SUPPORT THE STUB SHAFTS OF THE ROTOR SUPPORT MEMBER, A ROTOR FORMED IN TWO SECTIONS FITTED TO THE SPHERICAL SEGMENTAL OUTER SURFACE OF THE ROTOR SUPPORT MEMBER, THE OUTER SURFACE OF THE ROTOR BEING OF SPHERICAL SEGMENTAL CONTOUR, SAID ROTOR SUPPORT MEMBER HAVING PASSAGE MEANS FORMED THEREIN CO-AXIALLY ALIGNED WITH THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE HOUSING SECTIONS, SAID PASSAGE MEANS THROUGH THE ROTOR SUPPORT MEMBER BEING ADAPTED TO HAVE GAS UNDER PRESSURE FROM AN EXTERNAL SOURCE INJECTED THERETHROUGH, SAID ROTOR SUPPORT MEMBER HAVING A PLURALITY OF RADIALLY POSITIONED AUXILIARY PASSAGES THERETHROUGH, IN DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH THE PASSAGE MEANS THROUGH THE ROTOR SUPPORT MEMBER, EACH SECTION OF THE ROTOR HAVING A PLURALITY OF RADIALLY POSITIONED PASSAGES THERETHROUGH, SAID RADIALLY POSITIONED PASSAGES THROUGH THE ROTOR BEING ADAPTED TO RECEIVE GAS UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE AUXILIARY PASSAGES THROUGH THE ROTOR SUPPORT MEMBER, SAID ROTOR HAVING A PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIALLY TANGENTIAL OUTLET PASSAGES, LOCATED AT THE SPHERICAL SEGMENTAL OUTER SURFACE OF THE ROTOR, EACH OF THE TANGENTIAL OUTLET PASSAGES BEING IN DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH ONE OF THE RADIALLY POSITIONED PASSAGES THROUGH THE ROTOR, THE GAS UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE TANGENTIALLY POSITIONED OUTLET PASSAGES BEING ADAPTED TO ROTATABLY DRIVE THE ROTOR, WHEN THE GAS UNDER PRESSURE PASSES THROUGH THE TANGENTIAL OUTLET PASSAGES.