US286800A

US286800A - Flying target

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Publication number: US286800A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-10-16
Anticipated expiration: 1900-10-16

Description

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

L. FEY.

FLYING TARGET. N04. 286,800. Pater lt ed 00th 16,-1883.

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(N0 Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

' L. FEY.

' FLYING TARGET. No. 286,800." Patented Oc'tl 1651883.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LoUIs'rnY, or CINCINNATI, OHIO.

FLYING TARGET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersIPatent No. 286,800, dated October 16, 1883.

Application filed February 13, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS FEY, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Flying Targets, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in those missiles which, being projected from a suitable trap or sender, are used as marks by sportsmen; and my improvement consists in a loosely-attached annular sabot, or ring, or frame of thin metal, as hereinafter set forth, which ring enables the projection of the shell into space by means of a trap or sender, and, if not hit by the shot, permits such shell to strike the ground without explosion or frac- My said ring or sabot also serves to enable the trap to impart to the shell a rapid rotation about its axis in the act of flight.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my frame, ring, or sabot. Fig. 2 is a partly-sectioned side view of my shell; Fig. 3 shows a modification of my sabot. I

The configuration of my shell or target proper simulates that of a Derby hat that is to say, a bowl-like figure, which, from an encircling brim or flange, A, tapers upward, as at B, to a convex crown, O. This bowl or hat shaped body is composed of two similar members of paper, papier-mach, or other fragile material,of which the outer one, having been coated internally with a suitable fulminate, D, has the inner one snugly i1n-' pacted within it, as shown in Fig. 2.

My ring or sabot shown is composed, pref While my sabot is preferably provided with a tongue, G, as represented in Fig; 1, nevertheless sabots like that shown in Fig. 3, without such projection, may be made to serve a useful purpose, because traps in common use can be made to grasp such a tongueless I am aware of and hereby disclaim'novelty in the broad principle of secretion of a ful minate between two inclosinglaminae, the same being common in explosive balls, 8:0.

The edge of flange E, instead of being circular, asrcpresented, may be scalloped, crenelated, or serrated.

The shell may be composed of clay or any other suitable frangible material. g

The slightly converging inner flange, F, hugs the body B G with just sufficient friction to cling to it in the act of discharge or projection from the trap, and until struck by the marksmans ball, or (in default of being so hit) until the entire target or missile strikes the ground, in which event the sabot protects the body or target proper from injury, and hence permits it to be used over again.

I claim herein as new and of my invention- 1. A flying target sabot consisting of an' set my hand. r

LOUIS FEY.

Attcst:

G-Eo. H. KNIGHT, SAML. S. CARPENTER.