US229086A - Flying target - Google Patents

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S. BRAY..

. Flying Target. No. 229,086. Patented June 22,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SANFORD BBAY, OF GHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

FLYING TARGET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 229,086, dated. June 22, 1880.

Application filed March 19, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SANFORD BRAY, of Gharlestown, Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Flying Target, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide for sporting purposes an improved target which may be thrown into theair without the aid of as to be broken off or detached of the target when struck by a ball or by shot.

a trap, and whose broad tail-pieces or wings shall be so attached to the body of the target from the body in turn attached to the rocket by means of a paper strip, F. E is a touch-paper or mealpowder connecting with the fuse.

The trap to fire the target may be seen in 2 5 perspective, Fig. 2.

The target is laid upon the wires J J, and

the slow-match K is brought in contact with the touch-paper on the upper side of the target by pulling the string I).

I 30 Having described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a flying target, the combination of the glass strips or bars 1) with the body B of the rocket and the broad thin wings G 0, said strips serving as a means for connecting the other parts, as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

SANFORD BRAY. Witnesses:

EDMUND A. HYDE,

BENJ. F. CUTTER.

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