US850063A - Amusement-target. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED APR. 9, 1907.

W B. SHAW. AMUSEMENT TARGET.

APPLICATION I'ILED JUNE 6, 1906.

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S. BIRD, TRUSTEE, OF EAST WALPOLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. SHAW, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Inn rovements in Amusement- Targets, of which the following is a full, clear, an d exact description, reference being had to the accompany ng drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has reference. to improvements in amusement-targets.

One object of the "invention is to so construct a target that electrical illumination of the target'may be effected as a result of the impact of a projectile against 'a part of the 7 target.

Another object of the invention is to so construct a target of this nature furnished with electrical exterior and interior illuminating means that the exterior circuit "maybe opened and theinterior circuit closed by the actionof a magneticallynctuated controller and an electric circuit having a circuitclosing device adapted to be operated by the impact of a projectile.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the target.

' The invention also consists in the peculiar construction of the target and the means for illuminating the interior thereof, together with the peculiar means for opening and closing the circuit thereof.

' The invention .also consists in atarget furnished with interior and exterior electrical illuminating means and circuits and'a switch for controlling said circuits.

The invention also consists in such other novel features of construction and combination of parts, as shall hereinafter be more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 represents a vertical sectional view of the target with a view of the circuitcon'trolling devices anda diagrammatic view of the electrical circuits. Fig. 2 represents a front view-of the improved target.

Similar numerals of reference designate corwith the interior electrical illuminating Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 6. 1906. Serial No. 320.898.

AMUSEMENT-TARGET.

i v Patented April e, 1 e07.

means-6. The front of the target is formed by a frame 7, mounted on the edge ofthe reflector 5 and havin a front 8, formed of foraminous materia preferably of wirecloth. Also secured to the frame 7 is a sheet 9, preferably of material imperviousto light and having letters, Words, or. symbols cut out therefrom or rendered transparent in any suitable manner. Through an opening in this front extends the sleeve 10, having at its inner'end the insulated electric terminals 11 and 12 of the electric circuit a 6. Within the sleeve is slidably mounted the circuiteloser 13, having the stem 14 and the disk 15, which is designed to represent the bulls-eye of the target, the spring 16 acting to press .the disk 15, the stem 14, and the circuitcloser .13 outward whereby the circuit a b is normally open between the terminals lland 12.

The circuit a 6 includes anelectric battery and the coils of the magnet 17,

located at a distance from the target and preferably mounted on the vertical support 18, on which is pivotally mounted the armature 19, having the projection 20 and connected at its lower end by the tension-spring 21 with some fixed part of the support, th1s spring exerting a' strain on the lower part of the armature 19 to swing the upper portion thereof away from the magnets.

Pivotally mounted on the support 18 is the lever 22', having the notched end 23, ada ted to engage beneath theprojection 20 on t e armature 19, whereby this end of the lever 22 is normally. held in the depressed position. To this end of the lever 22 is'secured the drawing wire or ro e 24, which may lead to any convenient point, while to the end 22 of the lever 22 is secured the Weight 25, which when the notched end 23 is released from the projection 20 of the armature MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO' CHARLES draws'downward the end 22of said lever. The links 26 and 27 are pivotally connected with the end portions of the lever 22' and respectivly with the connecting-rods 28 and y 29, which are in turn pivotally connected with the operating-lever 30 of any suitable electric switch of which a simple form is herein shown. This lever 30 is secured to the shaft 31, rotatably mounted in the bearing 32 of the switch-plate 33, which plate is mounted on the support 18 and having the circuit-closers 34 and 3S insulated from each ner; I The plate 33 is also furnished with the electric terminals 36 37 and 3839.

5 The arms of the electric circuit a: y extend from the generator G or other source of electric energy through an ordinary knifeswitch S, the army of said circuit being connected with the terminals 36 and 37, While the arm 0: extends to and through the lamp 6 within the target to the terminal 39. From the. arm w a half-connection a2 is made by a conductor leading through the exterior or.

room lights 40 40 to .the terminal 38. 1

I With the circuit-closer 34 in the position 'shown in the drawings the electric circuit m 'y is com lete between the terminals 37 and 38, and e ectric current is supplied to the exterior or room lights 40 40, so that the face 8 of the target is illuminated while the circuit a: y is open between the terminals 36 and 39. If now the bulls-eye or disk 15 is ushed inward, as by the impact of a roject- .1le, the circuit a]; will be complete by the- '2 5 contact of the circuit-closer 13 with terminalsll and 12. The magnet 17 will be energized by the electric current and will attract the armature 19, thus disengaging the projection 20 from the end 23 of the lever 22 and 30 permitting the weight 25 to draw downward the end 22 of said lever 22. By means of the connections between the levers 22 and the latter lever will be swung to rock the shaft 31 and to swing the circuit-closer 34 out 35 of contact with the ter'minals37 and 38, the

circuit-closer 35 being at the same time swung into .contact with the terminals 36' and 39, whereby the circuit a y is completed between these terminals and electric current. 4 is supplied to the interior lamp 6, while the.

exterior lamps 140 40 are cut out of circuit.

Therays of light from the lamp-6 will illumi-- nate the trans arentportions of the sheet 9, and this'illurmnation will ap ear to be par-' 4 5 ticularlyfieffective through t e sudden extinguishing of the exterior or room lights. "-In practice itis intended that the transparent lettering 61'. symbols on the sheet 9 shall be" of an entertaining or humorous nature.

5'0" While I prefer to utilize both the exterior and the interior v illuminating means, it is evident that the exterior lighting-circuit may be omittedwithout departing from the spirit of this invention. f It is also evident that the 1 action of the armature 19 may be utilized other in anyordinaryand well-known manfor any suitable purpose other than that herein set forth.

- I do not limit myself to the particular shape of the target herein shown, as it is evident that theface of the target may be of any desired sha e and that the compartment back of said face may be ofany suitable shape and construction. V

Having .thus described my inlyention, I

A claim as new and desire to secure/by Letters Patent '1. A target comprising a compartment having a foraminous face, anelectric lamp cuits for supplying current to said lam controlling means for said circuit, an e ectric-- circuit closer movably mounted in the face of the target, an electric circuit having terminals adapted to be closed by said circuitcloser, a magnet in said latter circuit, and means normally held in the inoperative position by the armature of said magnet for operating the controller for the lighting-circuit.

2. A targeticomprising a face, a circuitcloser movably mounted on said face, .an electric circuit including terminals, adapted to be closed by said circuit-closer, and a mag-' net, an'armature for said magnet, an electric c1rcu1t exterior to the target and including electrically-operated devices, a controller forcloser for said terminals movably mounted on the face of the target and having a part adapted to "receive the impact of a projectile, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in-presence of two witnesses.

- WLLLIAMv E. SHAW.

- Witnesses.

HENRY J. MILLER, l

PHYLLIS TONER.

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