Anti-vibration microscope stand - has eyepiece and objective lenses separately cantilevered from rigid portion of support pillar

摘要

In the microscope the eyepiece and the objective lenses are separately mounted, the objective being mounted in a cantilever member which is attached to a rigid portion of a support pillar. The eyepiece is also cantilevered out from the support pillar. The eyepiece cantilever is spaced away from the objective-mounting cantilever and entirely free of contact, except only the remote contact through the pillar. To maintain the most rigid possible relationship between objective and stage, the stage is focussably mounted on a rigid portion of the same support pillar. With the stage-to-objective distance, or object conjugate, held firm and relatively free of vibrations the distance to the eyepiece focal plane, or image conjugate, is much less critical.