US1332735A

US1332735A - Shooting-trap

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Publication number: US1332735A
Application number: US313439A
Authority: US
Inventors: Mcmillan Alexander
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-07-26
Filing date: 1919-07-26
Publication date: 1920-03-02
Anticipated expiration: 1937-03-02

Description

Patented Mar.2,1920.

M .fr im, R. d a l y WITNESSES 2. Q. JL;

ALEXANDER MCMILLAN, 0F OTISVILLE, NEW YORK.

SHOOTING-TRAP.

Specification of Letters APatent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

Application filed July 26, 1919. Serial No. 313,439.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER McMin- LAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Otisville, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a new `and Improved Shooting-Trap, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

This invention relates to improvements in shooting traps, an object of the invention being to provide improved means for casting or ejecting pigeons which will release a single pigeon at a time and throw the same `1n any direction desired.

A further object is to provide improved means for supporting a number of pigeons, improved means for locating one of the pigeons on an ejector shaft and provide im-- proved means for causing the ejector shaft to revolve and throw the pigeon in the air.

A further. object is to provide improved 'means for aiming or guiding the discharge of the pigeon in the direction desired'.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and vpointed out in the claims.

taken just above the forked guide 40.

1 represents a base having a supporting platform 2 connected to the base by a rotary standard 3. A tilting platform 4 is located above the platform 2 and said platforms 2 and 4 arev provided with brackets 5 and 6 respectively connected by pivots 7 to permit 'the tiltingof platform 4 as desired. A

coiled spring 8 holds the platform 4 in normal position and returns it to such position when permitted.

The tilting platform 4. supports a frame 9 in whichan ejector shaft 10 is mounted to turn, 'the upper portion of the shaft 10 being angular, as indicated clearly in Fig.

"4. The frame 9 also supports a drive shaft 11 which isconnected by a gear train .12 with a pinion 13 on shaft 10. A drive pmion 14 connected by ratchet and pawl 14 with the shaft 11 is revolved by means of a rack 15 carried by a horizontally sliding bar 16, the latter mounted in suitable standards 17 and connected by a link 18 with a hand lever 19 to operate the same.

bell crank tipping lever 20 is pivotally supported on a standard 20', and its longer member 21 engages the platform 4. The shorter member 22 of the tipping lever 2O is adapted to be engaged by a lug 23 on the bar 16, so that the longitudinal movement of the bar 16 will cause the tipping action of the platform 4.

The platform 2 is turned on its rotary standard 3 by means of a vertical crank shaft 24 supported in a suitable bearing 25 and having a crank arm 26 thereon connected by a rod 27 with a crank arm 28 on the standard 3 so that by turning the shaft 24, the platform can be moved on its standard. A crankhandle 24 is secured to the shaft 24 and is adapted to be manually operated to aim or discharge the pigeons 34 in the direction desired, as will more fully hereinafter appear.

The platform 2 supports an upright frame 29 having a horizontal arm 30 thereon carrying a plug 3l at its free end from which depends a magazine rod 32, the latter pivotally connected, as shown at 33, to allow the magazine rod to be moved to the dotted line position in Fig. 2 for loading. This rod 32 is preferably angular in cross-section', conforming to the shape of the upper end of shaft 10, and may be frictionally or otherwise held in normal vertical position.

The pigeons are illustrated by the reference numeral 34, and it is to be understood that a large number of such pigeons may be supported on the rod32 and they are made with wings 49 so that kthey resemble a propeller in shape and will readily take the air and sail freely in the air when rotary motion is imparted thereto by means of the shaft 10.

A pivoted arm 35 having any suitable pivotal connection 37 with a bracket 36 on the frame 29 has its lower endlocated in the path of movement of a shoulder 41 on frame 9, which is adapted to contact with a finger 42 on the lower end of the arm 35 to cause a supporting finger 39 on said arm to move away from the lower end of the rod 32. It is to be understood that the finger 39 normally holds the pigeons on the rod 32 and will be moved away from such position onlywhen the shaft isy in alinement with the lower end of the rod, this movement being eected by reason of the contact of shoulder 41 with finger 42.

A lever 43 'is pivoted at 44 to an arm 45 on frame 29 and is connected at its upper end by a link 46 with the pivoted arm 35, the lower end of the lever 43 being provided with a spring cushioned contact 47 adapted to engage the second pigeon from the bottom and hold the column of pigeons while one is f .being released to fall on to the shaft 10. The

`spring 33 holds the arm 35 in normal position. The shaft 10 is guided into position by means of a forked guide 40 secured to frame 29 and located below the rod 32. This guide 40 has a stop 48 against which the shaft 10 abuts and limits the pivotal movement of platform 4, and also tends to stop the rota- "tion of shaft 10 and cause the angular end thereof to properly aline with the rod 32 to receive a pigeon thereon.

The operation is as follows: Assuming the parts to be in the position shown in Fig. 1, the operator moves the lever 19 to the left, which movement brings lug 23 against the shorter member 22 of tipping lever 20 causing the longer member 21 thereof'to exert a downward pressure on the platform 4 causing the shoulder 41 to move against finger Y 42 and bringing the end ofshaft 10 in alinement with rod 32. This contact with nger 42 moves the lower end ofarm 35 to the right, withdrawing the holding linger 39 from below the column of pigeons and at the same time, through the medium o-f part 42,

causes the lower end of lever 43 to move to the left pressing the contact 47 against the pigeon second from the bottom so that the column of pigeons will be held on the rod 32 while the lowermost pigeon falls on to the shaft 10. The initial movement of bar 16 to the left brings the rack 15 into mesh with the pinion 14, which latter, through the medium of the gear train 12, imparts `a rotary motion to shaft 10 and ejects the pigeon thereon before the platform is tilted into loading position.

`When the lever 19 is moved to the right,

the spring 8 will return the platform 4 to its normal position and during such movement of the spring 8, the rack 15 will not cause the revolution of the shaft 10 because of the ratchet and pawl 14a, as above explained.

The direction of flight is controlled by means of the crank shaft 24 and rod 27 as above explained, and as the lever 19 and .crank handle 24 are in proximity to each other, the operator can move one with one hand and the other with the other hand so that he can nicely contro-1 the discharge of the pigeons in any direction desired.

1 Various vslight changes may be made in the general form and-arrangement of parts describedwithout departing from the invention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim: Y

1. A shooting trap, comprising a platform havingrotary mounting, a tilting platform on the rotary platform, an ejector shaft on the tilting platform, a pigeon `magazine rod, means for tilting the pivoted -platform to position the ejector shaft under the magazine rod, means operated bythe tilting platform to release a single pigeon from the rod to the shaft, and means for imparting a rotary motion to the ejector shaft.

2. A shooting trap of the `character described, comprising a rotary platform, a

tilting platform on the rotary platform, an

ejector shaft on the tilting platform, a longitudinally movable bar having a `rack thereon, a pinion on the tiltingplatform engaged by the rack, 'a' gear train yon the tilting platform connecting the pinion vwith the ejector shaft, and a tipping lever operated by the bar and adapted to vary the angle vof `the tilting platform.

the tilting platform constituting a driving means for the ejector shaft, a longitudinally movable bar having a rack thereon adapted to engage the pinion, av lug `on the bar adapted to operate the tilting lever, means for moving said bar, and means for ,turning the rotary platform.

5. A shooting trap, comprising ya rotary platform, a tilting platform on the rotary platform, an ejector shaft on the tilting platform, a tilting lever, a longitudinally movable bar, means on the bar for transmit- `ting rotary motion to the shaft, and other lmeans for operating the tilting lever, a crank ;arm on the rotary mounting of the rotary platform, a rod connected to said arm, and separate means for moving the bar and the saidrod.

6. A shooting trap, comprising a tilting platform, an ejector shaft on the platform,

a depending magazine rodadapted to support a columnof pigeons, a pivoted arm, a

.finger-on said arm normally under the rod iso holding the pigeons thereon, a member on the pivoted platform adapted to engage the pivoted arm and move the linger from below the rod when the ejector shaft is in alinement therewith, means operated by the pivoted arm engaging the second from the bottom of the column of pigeons permitting the bottom pigeon only to fall on to the ejector shaft, and means for causing the .revolution of the ejector shaft to discharge the pigeon therefrom.

7. A shooting trap of the character described, comprising a tilting platform, an ejector shaft on the platform, a depending magazine rod adapted to support a column of pigeons, a spring held pivoted arm, a finger on the arm normally below the column of pigeons, a member on the platform adapted to engage said arm to release a pigeon from the rod on to the ejector shaft, and a spring cushioned contact operated by the arm to engage one of the column of pigeons and permit only the bottom pigeon to fall on to the ejector shaft.

8. A shooting trap of the character described comprising a tilting platform, an ejector shaft on the tilting platform, a depending magazine rod adapted to support a column of pigeons thereon, a forked guide adapted to receive the ejector shaft and guide the same into position below the rod, means moved by the tilting frame to release a single pigeon on to the ejector shaft, other means operated simultaneously for holdin all b'ut the lowermost pigeon on the rod, an means for imparting rot-ary motion to the shaft to eject the pigeon.

ALEXANDER MCMILLAN.