Fibre optics code apparatus

Claim 1

CODE APPARATUS COMPRISING A FIRST OPTICAL LENS HAVING AN AXIS, A SECOND OPTICAL LENS HAVING AN AXIS LYING IN A PLANE CONTAINING THE AXIS OF THE FIRST LENS, A MIRROR LOCATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE AXES OF THE LENSES, DISPOSED BETWEEN AID LENSES AND HAVING REFLECTIVE SURFACES ON OPPOSITE SIDES NORMAL TO AND INTERSECTING SAID PLANE, A BAND OF ELONGATED LIGHT-TRANSMITTING FIBERS HAVING RESPECTIVE AXES ALIGNED IN A ROW AT EACH OF THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE BAND, THE RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE FIBERS IN THE ROWS AT OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE BAND BEING DIFFERENT, SAID BAND BEING DISPOSED WITH ITS ENDS FACING OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID MIRROR TRANSMITTING LIGHT REFLECTED BY ONE SIDE OF SAID MIRROR FROM SAID FIRST LENS TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR FOR REFLECTION INTO SAID SECOND LENS, A TARGET IMAAGE PLATE FACING THE FIRST LENS OPPOSITE FROM SAID MIRROR, THE LOCATION OF SAID TARGET IMAGE PLATE, SAID FIRST LENS, AND SAID ONE SIDE OF SAID MIRROR BEING SUCH AS TO FOCUS THE IMAGE OF THE TARGET PLATE ON A PLANE CONTAINING ONE END OF SAID BAND, A SCREEN FACING THE SECOND LENS OPPOSITE FROM SAID MIRROR, THE LOCATION OF SAID SCREEN, SAID SECOND LENS AND SAID OTHER SIDE OF SAID MIRROR BEING SUCH AS TO FOCUS THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER END OF SAID BAND ON SAID SCREEN, AND MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID MIRROR ABOUT AN AXIS NORMAL TO THE PLANE OF THE LENS AXES SO THAT SAID ONE SIDE OF SAID MIRROR SCANS THE ENTIRE IMAGE OF THE TARGET IMAGE PLATE ACROSS SAID ONE END OF SAID BAND AND SAID OTHER SIDE OF SAID MIRROR SIMULTANEOUSLY REFLECTS LIGHT TRANSMITTED FROM SAID OTHER END OF SAID BAND ONTO SAID SCREEN, EACH OF THE ROWS AT THE OPPOSITE END OF THE BAND BEING POSITIONED AT AN ANGLE WITH RESPECT TO THE PLANE OF THE LENS AXES.