US2059918A - Target - Google Patents

Description

A. STRAKA Nov. 3, 1936.

TARGET Filed Oct. 11, 1934 Patented Nov. 3, 1936 per cent to R. Jaromir Psenka and twenty-five per cent to Frank De Giorgi, both of Chicago, Ill.

Application October 11, 1934, Serial No. 747,977

1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in targets, particularly of the indicating type.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a target having a manikin or other indicating device slidably arranged therein adapted to be released from a retracted position within the target when a projectile strikes a restricted area on the target.

A further object of this invention is to provide a target having indicating means as above described adapted to be released by means of a button which is provided with a latch adapted to engage a keeper formed in the indicating member.

A further object of this invention is to provide means for limiting the projection of the indicator from the target after the same has been released as by means of a projectile striking the button in a restricted area.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent during the course of the following description forming a part of this specification and taken with the drawing wherein Figure l is a front elevational view of the device embodying this invention illustrating in dotted lines the indicator in the form of a manikin;

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the target illustrating the cover plate removed for clearly showing the manner in which the manikin indicator is retracted within a cut-away portion formed in the target; and

Figure 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view taken on line 3--3 of Figure 1 looking in the direction of the arrows illustrating in enlarged detail the construction and arrangement of the indicator tripping device.

In the drawing, wherein for the purpose of illustrating the invention and wherein like reference characters will be employed to designate like parts throughout the same, the reference character 5 will generally be employed to designate a disk-shaped plate having an enlarged central portion 6 and having a diametrical guideway 1 at one side thereof formed by crescentshaped plates 3 arranged in opposite spaced relation and secured to the plate 5 by means of fastening elements 9. A disk-shaped plate l overlies the plates 8 and is secured to the plates and 8 by the fastening elements 9, the outer face of the plate Ill having concentric circles thereon after the fashion of a rifle practice target.

Slidably received within the guide way "I is a manikin ll having leg portions I2, the extremities of which are bent outwardly and upwardly as at l3 to slidably engage the adjacent straight edges of the plates 8 and when the manikin is in its outermost position the ends [3 of the legs will engage stop shoulders [4 formed on the plates 8. Projection devices l5 such as elastic cords are connected to the foot portions 13 as at I8 while the opposite ends are connected by staples H to the opposite sides of the guideway outwardly of the abutment shoulders l4.

Slidably mounted within the enlarged portion 5 of the disk 5 is a U-shaped latch l8 slidably guided in a cross member [9 located in a bore 20 in the center of the enlarged portion 6. The other leg of the U-shaped latch I8 is adapted to slide in an opening 2| and has its free end as at 22 presented for entry within the keeper 23 formed in one side of the manikin H in substantially the center thereof. The opposite end of the U-shaped latch I8 is provided with a button 24 freely movable with an opening 25 formed in the face plate It). Encircling the U-shaped latch l8 between the guide is and button 24 is a coil spring 26 adapted to normally move the free end 22 of the latch into engagement with the keeper opening 23.

When the manikin H is in its retracted position as shown in Figure 2, the target maybe set in position for target practice and may form the objective of rifle bullets, arrows, or other projectiles. Should one of the projectiles aimed at the target strike the center button 24 thereof, the indicating manikin l I will be released by means of the latch I8 and projected by the spring devices l5 such as elastic cords or the like and the manikin indicator will assume the position shown in Figure 2, being limited in its projected movement by the ends l3 of the legs moving into engagement with the abutment shoulders l4.

Once the manikin indicator II has been projected it may again be moved back into position as shown in Figure 1 and retained in position by the latch end 22 engaging within the keeper opening 23 until the button 24 is again struck by a missile or projectile.

It is to be understood that the form of the invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred embodiment of the same and that various changes in the shape, size, and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claim,

I claim:

In an indicating target, a body comprising a disk-shaped plate, a pair of crescent-shaped plates having their convex edges in line with diametrically opposite edges of the disk-shaped plate and secured thereto to define a transversely extending slot, a second disk-shaped plate overlying the crescent-shaped plates, the slot extending completely through the body with opposite walls of the slot constituting guideways for a figure toy normally concealed within the slot between the disk-shaped walls, the walls being abruptly inset at corresponding ends adjacent one side of 10 the body to provide abutment shoulders, a figure toy normally concealed in the slot and having legs and an outwardly directed abutment foot on each leg slidably engaged with the guideway for engagement with an abutment shoulder and means for projecting the figure toy from its concealed position comprising a pair of elasti ccords respectively attached at one end to a. foot and anchored to a Wall of the guideway outwardly of the abutment shoulders.

ANTON STRAKA.

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