Patent ID: 8279123

Claim:
Housing of a search-antenna polarization instrument, characterized by two housing shells ( 2 , 3 ) which are plugged together in an interlocking manner, where the housing which is basically cuboid in shape has six housing walls ( 4 to 9 ), each housing shell ( 2 , 3 ) is formed by exactly three of the housing walls ( 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ), each housing wall of a housing shell ( 2 , 3 ) is integrally connected by two adjacent side edges, of its four side edges, to another housing wall, the inner faces of adjacent housing walls ( 4 to 9 ) are arranged precisely at right angles to each other, on the outside of one housing wall at least one ridge ( 26 , 27 ) is formed for holding a coil as antenna counterweight, while an antenna may be located inside the housing, on the outside of one or more housing walls there is, on each one, a depression formed which serves as a positioning surface ( 12 to 16 ) for an alignment instrument, and a direction-finding groove ( 19 , 20 , 21 ) is formed on the outside of one housing wall or on several housing walls.