US1293903A - Target. - Google Patents

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E. E. PETERSEN.

v I TARGET.

.APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25,191?

1,293,903. Patented Feb.11,1919.

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INVEN TUH E. E PETEPEEN EVALD E. PETERSEN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

TARGET.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 11, 1919.

Application filed November 26, 1917. Serial No. 203,945.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EVALD E. PETERSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Fran- 5 cisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Targets, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to practice targets for use in shooting galleries or the like, and the object of the invention is to provide a target of this character which will excite interest, and stimulate the desire to practice shooting, by the change in form which the target undergoes if correctly hit. In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a sectional view of a tank showing in front view a target before it is hit; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same afiter it has been accurately hit; Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of the operating portion of the target; Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view. Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates a tank for containing water. Supported in said tank, below the water line therein, are i parallel horizontal angle bars 2. Pivoted by means of a pivot pin 3 extending through said bars 3 are ears 4, 6, projecting from the lower adjacent corners of metal plates 7 8. To the backs of said plates are secured,

l near upwardly extending adjacent edges, metal plates 9, 10, which extend upwardly above the upper horizontal edges of said plates 7, 8, said plates 7, 8, 9, 10, being of such form that, when said edges are brought close together, said plates have the same outline as that of a submarine vessel, the upwardly extending portion of the plates 9, 10, then assuming the form of the observation deck of the submarine. An upward extension 11 resembling a periscope is also attached to the plate 9. There are also attached to said plates 7, 8, and extend upwardly therefrom, metallic representations 1d of guns, such as are used on the decks of submarines. There also extends from the plate 8 the representation of a flag staff and flag.

In the normal position of said plates 7, 8, when their upwardly extending adjacent edges are close together, as shown in Fig. 1, said plates are held in such position by means of a latch 12 carried by the plate 8, which engages a keeper 13 secured to, and carried by, the plate 7 The keeper 13 is an angular piece of metal of which one part is riveted to the plate 7, and the other part extends rearwardly at right angles thereto, its upper rearwardly extending edge 14 be ing adaptedto be engaged by the latch 12. The latch 12 is pivoted, as shown at 16, on a member of a vertically extending angle iron 17, the other member of which is riveted, as shown at 15, to the central member of a channel iron 18, a flange of which is riveted, as shown at 19, to the plate 10. Said latch 12 is normally pressed downward by means of a spring 21, 'of which the free end presses against the top of the latch, and the other end is secured to a post 22 rearwardly extending from the flange 17, while the middle portion of said spring bears against the under side of a screw 23 screwed into the other flange of the channel iron 18. Screws 24 connect said outer flange with a plate 30 between which plate and flange the latch 12 swings.

The part of the target to be aimed at by the marksman is the head 26 of a bolt 25 which extends through the center of a white metal disk 27 in two sections, supported respectively by the plates 7 and 9 on one side and 8 and 10 on the other side. In order, however, that said two sections should each lie in the same vertical plane while the lower portions are secured direct to plates 7 and 8, their upper portions are secured to the spacing devices 28, which in turn are secured to the plates 9 and 10, and space the upper portions of the disk so that they will lie in the same vertical plane with the lower portions. A spring 29 coiled around the bolt 25 and compressed between the head 26 of the bolt and the plate 10 normally projects said head outward from the plate. Said head, being in the center of a white circle presents a conspicuous object at which to aim the bullet. If the bullet strikes the head of the bolt, it drives it backward and thereby raises the latch 12, since the rear end of the bolt is formed with an oblique or sloping surface 32 which engages the under side of said latch, so that as the bolt is pressed rearwardly, the latch is raised against the pressure of the spring 22. When the latch is raised from off the edge of the keeper, the two plates 7 and 8 immediately fall outward from their common pivot 3, so that the tar get presents the appearance of a submarine vessel broken in tWo through the observation deck.

Flat bars 33, 34, are secured to the rear surfaces of the plates 7, 8, and have upper and lower rearwardly extending arms-36, 37, of which the upper arms 36 arrest the downward movement of the plates by impinging upon the rear bar 2, while the lower arms 37 arrest their upward movement in like manner.

To restore the plates to their original positions, for another shot, there is secured to the back of each plate a flat bar or strip 38, which extends first downwardly below the lower edge of the plate and then in a nearly horizontal direction toward and below the other plate sothat said bars cross each other. When the two parts of the tar- I get fall asunder, as has been previously described, the free ends of these bars 38 rise, each being on the opposite side of the pivot 3 to the plate to which it is attached. Therefore these bars may be used to restore the plates to their original positions by lowering the free ends of the bars. This may be done by means of wire cords 39 attached to the free ends of the bars and passing downward and around pulleys l1 in the tank and then upward and out, so that by drawing upon said chain the plates 7, '8, may be raised on their pivot 8.

By reason of the universal detestation 7 caused by the operations of the German submarines, a target of this character may be used to great advantage to encourage the practice of marksmanship.

' I claim:

I 1. A' target comprisingseparable parts, means for holding said parts together to make a complete representation of an object,

7 a device to be aimed at, and means whereby when said device is hit by a bullet said separable parts are separated from each other.

2; A target in the form of a submarine vessel, comprising separate parts, depending means for holding said parts together to make a complete representation of a submarine, a device to be aimed at, and means whereby, when said device is hit by abullet, said separable parts are separated from co ies: um pace-ma bi: obtained mi each other so that the'target represents a submarine vessel in two parts.

3. A. target consisting of the representation of a submarine vessel and having parts pivoted together, a movable latch on one part and a keeper on the other part for bold ing said'part's together, said parts when so' held together forming the representation of a complete submarine vessel, a bolt provided with means for withdrawing said latch from its keeper, said parts being permitted to fall of a complete submarine vessel, a bolt provided with means for withdrawing said latch from its'keeper, said partsbeing permitted to fall apart on their pivot when said latch is so withdrawn, and downwardly extending devices for restoring said parts to their initial positions.

5. A target consisting of the representation of a'submarine vessel and having parts pivoted together, a movable latch on one part and a'keeper on the other part iforholdin'g said parts together, said parts when so held together forming the representation of a complete submarine vessel, a bolt provided with means for withdrawing said latch from its keeper, said parts being permitted. to fall 'apart on their pivot when said; latch is withdrawn, and an arm rigidly secured to each part and'extending first downwardly and then transversely beneath the pivot and the other part, for restoring said parts to their original positions. 7 p 7 'EvALD' E5 PETERSEN.

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