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US Patent: 517,029
Apparatus for Determining, Correcting or Compensating Compass Deviations
Instrument for adjusting the magnetic deviation of the mariners' compass
Patentee:
Carl Theodor Emil Clausen (exact or similar names) - Copenhagen, Denmark

USPTO Classifications:
33/356, 33/357, 73/1.76

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Assignees:
None

Manufacturer:
Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:
Vigo Emilius Theophilius Clausen
Alexis Kohl

Patent Dates:
Applied: May 17, 1893
Granted: Mar. 27, 1894

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Description:
The removable instrument is applied to the mariners' compass so as to facilitate correcting the compass for the magnetic effects of the ship's cargo and structure. A pair of permanent magnets disposed equally on each side of the pivot of the compass needle can be adjusted inwards or outwards (or in their azimuth) in order to compensate for the effects of extraneous magnetism surrounding the ship and thereby to improve the accuracy with which the needle points to the Earth's magnetic north pole.

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