Mechanical guns and projectors – Miscellaneous
Patent
1978-04-03
1980-06-03
Browne, William R.
Mechanical guns and projectors
Miscellaneous
124 34, 116303, 124 40, 116137R, 124 51R, 124 43, F41B 1500
Patent
active
042056519
ABSTRACT:
A launcher for a target pigeon having a central coreless ring and a pair of propeller-type vanes projecting therefrom has a launch head whose tip can be rotated about a head axis for spinning a target pigeon held on the tip by a pair of retractable holding fingers. This head can be swiveled about a horizontal axis from an upwardly directed launch position into a downwardly directed load position in which it is aligned with a stack of such pigeons carried on a vertically displaceable platform, while in the launch position the entire head is also oscillated about a vertical axis. The launch tip has a radially displaceable beak which is urged centrifugally outwardly to deflect a target pigeon that is released from the launch tip by retraction of the holding fingers by a solenoid, and which also is urged radially inwardly by a spring so that when the tip is not rotating during loading the beak is out of the way. The platform carrying a stack of pigeons is vertically stepped to press the uppermost pigeon of the stack over the launch tip of the head when it is in the load position.
REFERENCES:
patent: 542377 (1895-07-01), Shattuck
patent: 3570467 (1971-03-01), Belokin
patent: 4077384 (1978-03-01), Montefeltror
Browne William R.
Ross Karl F.
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