US2658759A - Moving target apparatus - Google Patents

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US2658759A
US2658759A US226358A US22635851A US2658759A US 2658759 A US2658759 A US 2658759A US 226358 A US226358 A US 226358A US 22635851 A US22635851 A US 22635851A US 2658759 A US2658759 A US 2658759A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41J—TARGETS; TARGET RANGES; BULLET CATCHERS
    • F41J9/00—Moving targets, i.e. moving when fired at
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  • the present invention relates generally to movable targets as used in known fashion for the practice of shooting on decoys and adapted to reproduce substantially actual condition as are encountered during normal shooting when the real bird takes off or flies away.
  • Devices have already been proposed which reproduce the irregular path followed on the ground by game such as hares, roebucks or like animals, said devices being so constructed as to drive a lure along a predetermined course.
  • devices have also been proposed which throw into the air a target constituted for example by a clay bird.
  • the last-named type of device presents a number of disadvantages first because as the target is thrown freely into the air, its path can no longer be altered after it has left the ground so that said path is inevitably rectilinear which seldom corresponds to real conditions encountered in actual shooting and second because the speed of the thrown target has its maximum value at the beginning of its path when it is hurled up and then gradually decreases whereas a living bird rather flies quicker and quicker after having taken flight off the ground.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a movable target or decoy for practising shooting on artificial birds the speed of which progressively increases from the moment when this target leaves the ground until the point of its path when the decoy is assumed to have reached its normal flying speed.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide an improved target or decoy movable both in elevation and. in azimuth the travelling speed of which may be altered at will while simulating accelerations of the flight of a living bird.
  • a still further object of the invention is to provide a movable target device of the aforesaid type comprising means for automatically controlling the motions in elevation and in azimuth of the target or decoy along the desired non-rectilinear path or trajectory, the control means be- 0 ing such that several different trajectorie are available for the operator of the device, whereby the hunter cannot know in advance the decoy path or trajectory represented by the target and actual conditions as encountered in real shooting practice are thus more or less reproduced.
  • Figure l is a perspective view partly in section. of the base structure of the target-moving de-.
  • Figure 4 is a front View of a constructional de-- tail of the base structure of the target device.
  • Figure 5 is an edge view of the device for con trolling the motion of the target.
  • Figures 6 and 7 are detail views in a plane normal to the plane of Fig. 8 showing two companion;
  • Figure 8 is a diagram of the wiring serving
  • the target-moving device for practising shooting on decoys comprises: according to the invention a pair of hollow posts I from the upper ends of which extend guiding cables or rails 2 which are inclined and anchored to the ground at their distal ends by pegs 3. Adequate steadiness of the posts I is ensured by means of tensioning cables or guys 4 extending in a direction opposite to that of the guiding cables 2 and anchored to the ground by pegs 5.
  • a carrier cable 6 arranged transversely thereof and capable of sliding by jockey pulleys 9 attached to its ends on the guiding cables 2 while remaining parallel.
  • a target I which can slide along the cable 6 and to which are secured the ends of a pair of traction-transmitting cables 8.
  • Cables 8 pass through guides or jockey pulleys 9 which serve to move the carrier cable 6 along the guiding cables 2 first upwardly toward the upper ends of the hollow posts I and then downwardly to a position adjacent the ground, and back along the ground to a pit ID in which said cables 8 are wound upon winches I I.
  • the posts I are provided adjacent their upper and lower ends with bent portions I2 which form guides facilitating move ment of the cables 8 through the posts I.
  • the target I (Fig. 3) which may receive for example 5 a decoy such as a clay bird is slidably fitted upon the carrier cable 6 through the medium of slid 3 ing sleeves I3.
  • the cables 8 have one of their ends secured to spaced eyelets I4 provided on the target 1.
  • Each of the jockey pulleys 9 for the tractiontransmitting cables 8 (see Fig. 4) comprises a base plate l5 upon which are journalled three grooved rollers l6 engaging the guiding cable 2, one of these rollers being rendered adjustable by means of a screw-threaded: stem I! and a nut [8 cooperating with a lug l9 on the base plate l5 so as to permit the braking action of the rollers l5; upon the guiding cable 2 to be varied atwill,
  • tric motor 22 is mounted upon agirderirameid. in which is journalled the winchli i
  • the driving stress is imparted .tqthe .winch. l from the motor 22through asproclgetwheel ,2 5 fastupon theshaft. of the motor 22 and connected by a sprocket chain t setti t tke Wheel. 2 11 s ronv t ha thaWi Qh-i hel t ic eter 2: h assgtia editha e i h; an. le t ma netic. switch 28 the purpose of which is indicatedhereafter.
  • This control station comprises a frameifi in .which; is. l t sllt ia. ha t ⁇ nowadays srminatin in a r nlt and ar vins a irally. led d i ng. spr 32 one end of which is fastened ..to.the frame:29.
  • Th perati n: f; h ontrol ati n a easily understood from, thewiring diagram shown.
  • nd-.-thr ehai s d-lww th is qmmon 2 the two power units through a control switch lever 55 which permits the circuit to be selectively open or closed through the selecting cup member 50.
  • the bottom of the cup member 50 is formed with recesses 56 through which project push rods 51 which close or open electric contacts one stud of which is connected by the leads 4'8 and: 491110 thev brushes 4.5, 46;
  • Each. contact correspondingtoa recess 56 of the cupmember 50 is connected to a brush 45 and to a brush 45 cooperating with a pair of discs 43, 42 which are operatively combined and co-operate as stated hereafter.
  • the operationofthe device is as follows:
  • the spring ilz iswound up by .means orfithe crank 31- and is. held-in-tightened conditionby v the ratchet gear A rubber pellet 59 (Fig. 8), is then thrown. into the cup member. 55 andsnaps haphazard into. one of the recesses, 55. of. this.
  • discs 2,133. (such as the zone..422. ondisc 63 shown .in,F,ig. 7) angularly comes. into-registra-.
  • the conductive zones andtheinsulating zones are differently, distributed .foreach .disc. of. apair of, companion discs d2, 33 suchas .thediseshown.
  • the distribution of the conductive zones and insulating zones on the discs 42, d3 varies for each pair of discs and that in each case a different path or trajectory is thus imparted to the target I, said path being determined haphazard among a range of possibilities depending upon the recess 56 into which the rubber pellet 59 has snapped so that the hunter can never foretell the trajectory of the flying target or decoy and thus experiences circumstances more or less similar to those of actual shooting on living birds.
  • a target practice device reproducing the take off and the flight of a living bird, comprising a pair of spaced posts, two inclined parallel guiding cables taut between the top of said posts and the ground, a pair of jockey pulleys slidably mounted on said cables, a transverse carrier cable connected at each end to said jockey pulleys, a target slidably mounted on said transverse carrier cable, a pair of traction transmitting cables, winding means for each traction transmitting cable, power means combined with each winding means, each traction-transmitting cable being secured at one end to said target and being guided to the top of said posts and wound at the other end on said winding means, and means for selectively controlling said power means so as separately to control said Winding means and to drive said target along a sinuous path according to the differential action resulting from the operation of said winding means, the hunter standing at such a position that the target flies away from him as said power means are operated.
  • a target practice device comprising a pair of spaced posts, two inclined parallel guiding cables taut between the top of said posts and the ground, a pair of jockey pulleys slidably mounted on said cables, a transverse carrier cable connected at each end to said jockey pulleys, a target slidably mounted on said transverse carrier cable, a pair of traction-transmitting cables, a pit, a pair of winches mounted in said pit, a pair 'of electric motors for operating said winches, each tractiontransmitting cable being secured at one end to said target, being guided along said carrier and guiding cables to the top of said posts and being wound at the other end on one of said winches, a source of electric energy for supplying current to said motors, switching means inserted between said source and said motors, and control means for operating said switching means so as separately to control the operation of said electric motors and winches associated therewith and to drive said target along a sinuous path according to the differential action resulting from said control, the hunter standing at such
  • a target practice device comprising a pair of spaced posts, two inclined parallel guiding cables taut between the top of said posts and the ground, a pair of jockey pulleys slidably mounted on said cables, a transverse carrier cable connected at each end to said jockey pulley, a target slidably mounted on said transverse carrier cable, a pair of traction-transmitting cables, a pit, a pair of winches mounted in said pit, a pair of electric motors for operating said winches, each tractiontransmitting cabl being secured at one end to said target, being guided along said carrier and guiding cables to the top of said posts and being wound at the other end on one of said winches, a source of electric energy for supplying current to said motors, a pair of switches interposed between said source and said motors, a shaft made up of two parts angularly rigid with each other, an insulating element interposed between said parts, pairs of collector discs keyed on said parts of the shaft, conducting and insulating zones provided at the pe
  • a target practice device comprising a cup member, recesses provided in the bottom of said cup member, push rods projecting within said recesses, and carrying a contact member at their lower end, pairs of contacts arranged in front of said contact members of the push rods, each contact of a pair being connected to a brush pressed against a collector disc of a pair, so that both discs of a pair are electrically operative when a push rod is depressed, and a ball removably located in said cup member for nesting itself into one of said recesses for depressing a push-rod and closing two control circuits including both discs of a pair so as separately to switch in each electric motor.
  • peripheral conducting and insulating zones are differently distributed from one disc to the other disc of the same pair and also from one pair of discs to the other pair.

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US2703240A (en) * 1953-02-23 1955-03-01 Lucien J T Flory Movable target device
US20120234976A1 (en) * 2009-03-12 2012-09-20 Airbus Operations Gmbh Ceiling panel having curtain rail in a transport cabin
US8814095B2 (en) * 2009-03-12 2014-08-26 Airbus Operations Gmbh Ceiling panel having curtain rail in a transport cabin
US20160297525A1 (en) * 2015-04-09 2016-10-13 The Boeing Company Systems and methods for positioning a section divider assembly within a vehicle
US9499271B2 (en) * 2015-04-09 2016-11-22 The Boeing Company Systems and methods for positioning a section divider assembly within a vehicle
US20170129608A1 (en) * 2015-11-05 2017-05-11 C&D Zodiac, Inc. Aircraft with partition system
US10562630B2 (en) * 2015-11-05 2020-02-18 C&D Zodiac, Inc. Aircraft with partition system
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