US1459944A

US1459944A - Telescope rifle sight

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Publication number: US1459944A
Application number: US530060A
Authority: US
Inventors: Warren S Belding
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1922-01-18
Filing date: 1922-01-18
Publication date: 1923-06-26
Anticipated expiration: 1940-06-26

Description

W. S. BELDING TELESCOPE RIFLE SIGHT Filed Jan.

June 26, .1923.

Patented June 26, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TELESCOPE RIFLE SIGHT.

Application filed January 18, 1922. Serial No. 530,060.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that, I, WARREN S. BELDING, a citizen of the United States, and a resident in the borough of Philipsburg, county of Center, and State of Pennsylvania, have 1nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Telescope Rifle Sights, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention is especially designed for use in conjunction with the United States Army rifle, model 1903, which is now the standard military rifle of this country. Among other advantages this invention obviates the use of screws, renders unnecessary much drilling, tapping or soldering now required, may be instantly applied toor removed from the arm and when applied 10- cates and adjusts itself so accurately that resighting is not necessary.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is an elevation of the breech section of a rifle showing my invention in position thereon;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Fig. 3 is an elevation of what I call the mount base bar;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the base bar shown in Figure 3;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the rear sight band which forms a permanent; and usually integral part of the barrel as now made;

Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional View taken on the line 66 of Figure 1.

In the drawing 1 represents the stock, 2- the barrel, 3 therear sight band as now made, 4- the cartridge manipulating devices, 5 the cartridge receiver. All of these parts are or may be the same as now made and upon the removal of the present telescope and its coacting parts from the rifle the parts above enumerated will remain permanently and rigidly attached thereto.

6- represents my mount base bar, which is a rigid, inflexible metallic part having at its front and rear ends a dovetailed part 7-7 provided with stops 8-8 adapted to coact with the telescope holders 99 all as fully illustrated and described in my pending application for patent for rifle sights Serial Number 510,345, filed October 25, 1921. The base bar has also at about its medial part a horizontally bored hole 10 adapted to receive a bolt or pin 11 which, passing through the lugs 1212 formed on a plate 13, pivots the base bar to it. The

plate 13 is provided with a suitable counter bore 15 adapted to snugly receive the boss 14 on the sight band, so that the ends of the plate will, when it is swung into paralellisrn with the barrel, pass beneath the flanges 16 16 at the ends of the band 3.

The base bar has also a vertically bored hole 17 through which passes a thumb screw 18 which is threaded into the plate 13 and is provided with a. thumb nut at its upper end. On the rear end of the base bar there is formed an inverted V-shaped block 19, which is adapted to rest on the top of the forward part of the receiver 5 (see Figures 1 and 2). 202O are two lugs formed on the plate 13 for the more secure support of the base bar.

The operation is as follows: The telescope and its coacting parts as now made, having been removed my new base bar is pivoted to the plate 13 by the bolt or pin 11 as described. The base bar and the plate are then adjusted upon the permanent rear sight band 3, as also described, the threaded thumb next 18 being now turned inwardly the result will be that the plate 13 will be drawn snugly against the flanges 16-16 the V- shaped block 19 pressed forcibly down upon the top of the receiver 5, and all lost motion in either the pin 11,the thumb screw or in any other part taken up, thus effecting a very rigid and satisfactory mount for the telescope, and it will be especially noted that all these contacts are eflected by positive screw action, not by reliance on the resistancy of springs as in certain earlier constructions which have proven unsatisfactory. Finally, much machine work and all resighting is eliminated.

If desired the base bar may be extended so that the V-shaped block will rest upon the rear instead of the forward part of the receiver. This construction, however, will not ordinarily be desirable since it interferes with the clip cartridge method of loading.

It will be obvious to those who are familiar with such matters that changes may be made in the detail of construction without departing from the essentials of my invention. I therefore do not limit myself to such details.

I claim 1. In a telescope rifle sight the combination of a base bar, a plate, a rear sight band, and telescope holders, the base bar being pivoted to the plate and the plate adapted to interlocking engagement with the rear sight 10 tion of a base bar, a plate, a rear sight band and telescope holders, the base bar being pivoted to the plate and said plate adapted to interlocking engagement with the rear sight band, means on the base bar to support the telescope holders, means on the underside of the base bar to support its rear end and a thumb screw which passes through the bar and is threaded into said, plate.

WARREN s. BELDING.