US3029516A

US3029516A - Quick detachable telescope gun sight

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Publication number: US3029516A
Application number: US39930A
Authority: US
Inventors: William J Clee
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1960-06-30
Filing date: 1960-06-30
Publication date: 1962-04-17
Anticipated expiration: 1979-04-17

Description

April 17, 1962 w. J. CLEE 3,029,516

QUICK DETACHABLE TELESCOPE GUN SIGHT Filed June 30, 1960 mllczm J. Clee INVENTOR.

f; 11 ma {I TTORNEy United States Patent "ce 3,929,516 QUICK DETACHABLE TELESCOPE GUN SIGHT William J. Clee, 3745 Brownsville Road, Trevose, Pa. Filed June 30, 1960, Ser. No. 39,930 1 Claim. (CI. 33-50) This invention relates to telescope gun sight mounts of the type having a mounting bar provided with means for attaching it at its ends to a gun frame in such a manner as to permit vertical and lateral angular adjustment of the bar in relation to the bore of the gun barrel for elevation and windage corrections, the bar having upwardly projecting arms for detachably clamping a telescope in a fixed position above the gun barrel.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a telescope gun sight mounting of the general type referred to having means to enable the quick detachment of the telescope sight from one gun and attachment to either of a number of others, as, for example, from a large caliber rifle to one of smaller caliber, or vice versa. With this improvement ahunter can carry two or more rifles of difierent calibers having attached thereto correctly adjusted mounting bars provided with uniform seats for a pair of clamping rings or collars attached to a single telescope sight, and quickly mount the sight on either of the guns When required, without the need for any readjustment of the mounting bar on the particular gun.

Itis of the utmost importance in the use of a single telescope sight for several guns that the sight be capable of transfer from one gun to another in the quickest possible time, as, for example, in the event of the appearance of large game when the sight is attached to a rifie of small caliber.

In previous telescope gun sight mounts of the type referred to, of which I am aware, considerable time is required in effecting the transfer of the sight from one gun to another because of the number of manipulations re: quired in the operation, not only rendering the telescope sight difficult to attach to the mounting bar but necessitating that the bar be angularly adjusted for elevation and windage after attachment of the sight to the gun.

In my improved telescope gun sight mount the upwardly projecting arms for supporting the telescope sight are provided with laterally open pairs of seats having plane surfaces for interfitting engagement with corre sponding similarly formed projecting surfaces of the adjacentclamping members for holding the telescope sight normally in alignment with and above the'gun bore. Thus, assuming that the bar has been correctly adjusted for elevation and windage, and that the telescope sight; has been clamped with the sighting hairs in correct position, it is necessary only to place the clamping members in the seats in the arms and thread a single screw in the rear of each of the arms into a registering opening in the adjacent clamp, or to apply a nut to a single stud. The telescope sight will then be in correct position and condition for the gun on which it has been installed. Cony; wh n i is re vii'edlo transfer the sight other gunit is necessary only to back the rear screws out of the clamps and secure them with the corresponding rswsii hast r stfi a arms of the mounting bar in the other gun ent re transfer can be made in a few seconds.

3,029,516 Patented Apr. 17, 1962 are applicable'not only to top mountings but also to side mountings provided with means for angular adjustment of the bar for elevation and windage. The pairs of interfitting seating surfaces may however be arranged in vertically spaced, and horizontally parallel relation, with the seats in the supports open toward the telescope sight.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will appear or be pointed out in the following specification taken K in connection with the accompanying drawings,- in

which FIG. 1 is a side elevation of a rifle having a telescope sight mounted thereon in accordance with my invention;

FIG. 2 is a section taken on the line 22 of FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a section similar to FIG. 2, but with the telescope sight removed; a

FIG. 4 is a fragmentary side elevation similar to FIG.-

FIG. 9 is an enlarged section of the telescope sight and mounting clamp, as shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 10 is a fragmentary top plan view of the rifle shown in the previous views with the mounting bar re moved, and with one of the vertical adjustment nuts in correct position;

The interfitting'seating surfaces of the supports and FIG. 11 is a transverse section through a modified form of telescope supporting arm and adjacent clamping member; and I FIG. 12 is a detail sectional view of a further modified form of my invention. a

Referring to the drawings in which like numerals des-' igna-te like parts in the several views, 10 indicates the intermediate portion of a conventional modern rifle to the frame portions 12 of which is attached a telescope sight mounting bar 14 above and in normal alignment with the herein the barrel 13 and on which is mounted a conventional telescope sight 16. The mounting" baralso is similar to conventional designs, except that it is provided with distinctive improved clamping means for thetelescope sight. I v 1' In order to provide for angular adjustment, the mounting bar 14 is not attached directly to the frame portions 12 of the gun 10, but is pivotally and removably attached at one end 18 by means of transversely extending screws 20 to a block 22 which is rigidly secured to the gun frame 12 by means of screws 24, or other suitable means. As illustrated, this block is on the forward portion of the frame 12, but may be placed on the rearward portion and thus reverse the position of the mounting bar, if desired. The inner faces 'of the headsof the screws 2Q are recessed to form inclined surfaces 26 (FIG. 6) dc signed for coengagement at their bottom edges with complernentary inclinedsurfaces 28 undercutin the top of the block 22 on opposite sides of the block, and there: by rigidly but removably securing the mounting bar 14 r o e frame .13 5 fl n FIG. i e m u ting ba 14 is in normal axial alignment with the gun barrel, but it may be laterally adjusted in either direction by backing out one of the screws 20, which are in threaded engagement with the mounting bar 14, and driving the opposite screw inwardly. The mounting bar is recessed on each side, as indicated at 30 to permit limited inward movement of the heads of the screws 20, in ad justing the telescope sight for windage correction. When the screws are tightened against the block 20 a narrow space 32 is left between the mounting bar and the block 22, to permit a slight vertically pivotal movement of the bar in adjusting the telescope sight for trajectory elevation.

The opposite end of the mounting bar 14 is of lesser thickness than the end attached to the block 22 and is vertically counterbored on each side to a substantially equal depth, as indicated at 34 (FIGS. 1, 4 and thereby forming a flat relatively thin end portion 36 having therein a circular opening 38 (FIG. 5) to fit loosely over a vertical stud 40 anchored in the gun frame 12. Circular nuts 42 and 44 are mounted on the stud on each side of the end portion for clamping it to the gun frame in vertically adjustable relation thereto. These nuts are partially inclosed in the counterbores 34 which hold them and the mounting bar against lateral movement. The mounting bar 14 is vertically adjusted to correct elevation of the telescope sight 16 by threading the nuts 42 and 44 in the direction desired and thus moving the mounting bar 14 on its pivotal connection with the screws 20 at the opposite end of the bar. The nuts 42 and 44 may be provided with peripheral sockets 46 to be engaged by a slender tool (not shown) or with other suitable means to facilitate manual rotation of the nuts.

For supporting the telescope sight a pair of upstanding and laterally oifset arms 48 are formed integrally with or otherwise rigidly carried by the mounting bar 14 in longitudinally spaced relation between the block 22 and the vertical stud 40. These arms have uniform pairs of plane clamp seats 50 in V or similar formation one above the other and diverging toward the center line of the ends of the mounting bar, these seats being open to receive correspondingly shaped projecting plane surfaces 52 on a pair of telescope clamping members 54, inserted laterally, in precise interfitting relation. Single headed screws 56 are inserted horizontally in the arms 48 midway between the seats 50, and after seating of the clamping members 54 these screws are inserted in aligned threaded openings 58 in the clamping members 54. The clamping members 54 and their complementa'ry members 60 have semicircular openings 62 corresponding to the diameter of the portion of the telescope sight 16 to be engaged, the two members being rigidly clamped about the telescope sight, after rotary adjustment to bring the cross hairs into correct relation, by means of screws 64, the two clamping members forming a 'unitary collar rigidly but detachably mounted on the telephone sight 16.

An essential feature of my improved gun sight mount resides in the arrangement whereby the clamping members 54 remain rigidly attached to the telescope sight and in which the mounting bars 14 on the various guns to which the sight is to be detachably mounted have previously been correctly adjusted for elevation and Windage, so that when the V-shaped portions of the clamping members have been inserted in the complementary V-shaped seats in the supporting arms 48, the telescope sight will be automatically placed in correct position, without the need of any further adjustment, irrespective Of whether the V-shaped seats in the arms 48 are open in a lateral or a vertical direction.

The plane seating surfaces 50 on the supports 48 may be in any laterally divergent relation which will permit precise interfitting engagement with correspondingly shaped telescope clamping members inserted laterally of the mounting bar. Also, as shown in FIG.11, the arms 48 may be provided with V-shaped grooves 66 and the clamping members 54 with V-shaped edges 68 to guide the clamping members to their central position in the arms 48, as well as to more positive locking engagement between the clamps and arms.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that with any number of guns having correctly adjusted mounting bars 16 attached as shown in FIGS. 3 and 8 and with the telescope sight correctly clamped in members 54 and 69, a quick transfer of the sight from one gun to either of the others can be very quickly eifected by withdrawing the single headed screws 56 in the arms 48, seating the telescope sight on the other gun and inserting the single screws 56 of the mounting bar 14 of that gun in the openings 58 in the clamping members 54, these manipulations requiring only a few seconds.

The interfitting plane seating surfaces in the supports 48 and on the clamping members 54- may be laterally parallel, as indicated at 50a and 52a, respectively in FIG. 12. -Also single studs 70 and wing nuts 72 for engagement therewith may be substituted for the threaded openings 58 in the clamping members 54 and the screws 56 in the supports 48. The nuts may be anchored to the supports against loss by wires or cords 74, or other suitable means. Portions 76 or all the interfitting seating surfaces of the supports and clamping members may be of V-forrnation 78, as indicated at 66 and 68 of FIG. 11 to guide the clamping members into central-relation in the seats of the supports.

In addition to the advantages mentioned, my entire improved telescope sight mount is simple and economical in construction; also my improved means of adjustments of the mounting bars renders such adjustments quicker and more secure than is provided in similar previous devices of which I am aware.

Obviously, various changes and modifications may be made in my improved telescope sight mount without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiment of my invention shown and described is intended to be illustrative only, and restricted only by the appended claim.

I claim:

In a telescope gun sight mount, the combination of a telescope mounting bar having means for attaching it to a gun frame in fixed longitudinal relation with the gun barrel and provided with a pair of integral telescope supports having therein pairs of longitudinally aligned, outwardly diverging seats in substantially right angular relation; and a telescope gun sight having a pair of collars rigidly attached thereto, said collars having laterally projecting seating portions formed in outwardly converging relation for interfitting engagement with the diverging seats in said supports; and headed screws for threaded insertion in said supports and collars for drawing the outwardly converging portions of said collars into rigid interfitting engagement with the diverging seats in said supports.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,036,290 McCann Apr. 7, 1936 2,517,274 Baker et a1. Aug. 1, 1950 2,632,251 Weaver Mar. 24, 1953 2,763,930 Ivy Sept. 25, 1956 2,951,292 Buehler Sept. 6, 1960