Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Projectile backstop
Patent
1990-11-05
1992-02-18
Grieb, William H.
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Projectile backstop
273406, F41J 112, F41J 118
Patent
active
050887416
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a modular firing ground and more particularly it relates to a shooting range made up of standard modules which are transportable and can be connected according to any requirements, said modules being provided with all ancillary equipment necessary to obtain an operating shooting range and being also provided with means for quick connection to other modules.
Shooting ranges are built at present by arranging masonry works underground or at ground level, or also on raised floors of already existing buildings.
The problems stemming from such kind of structures are of various types and quite evident to those who are skilled in the art.
First of all, the construction costs are very high, and this is particularly true of indoor shooting ranges.
Moreover, the realization of masonry work shooting ranges asks for extremely long working times which are strongly affected by local weather conditions.
Once the shooting range has been constructed, the area intended for the same cannot be exploited for other aims any more.
Moreover, due to the particular features of the shooting ranges themselves, it is impossible after realizing them to change their sizes (length or number of firing lines) according to any different specific requirements, unless definitely high costs are faced.
Accordingly, it can be certainly set forth that shooting ranges constructed according to traditional techniques having masonry structures or prefabricated structures of the traditional type, are very costly to realize, have a poor flexibility of employment and are inhomogeneous to one another.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,509,301 it is described a "Modular shooting range" comprising a shooting booth, for an individual shooter, communicating with the interior of an elongated firing tube. The end of the firing tube is closed by a bullet backstop which deflects bullets fired and collects them in a trough of liquid. Each of the booth, tube and backstop can be at least partially prefabricated.
In French patent No. 1,558,501 it is described a process to assembly a prefabricated house.
DE patent No. 2,125,188 describes a process for the realization of transportable room units, each one independent from the other.
In the French patent No. 2,292,811 it is described a transportable prefabricated house unit, and in French patent No. 2,077,127 it is described a housing having a reinforced frame.
Finally, a movable firing ground, disposed on a truck, is described in French patent No. 2,504,669.
Thus, it is quite clear that there is a need for shooting ranges such as those of the type suggested by the present invention, which are realized through assembling previously realized standard modules which are very easy to transport.
In that way, the assembling times of the shooting range in the yard are remarkably shortened (50-100 times shorter) in addition to a strong reduction of costs (2-3 times lower), and the characteristics of the shooting range obtained are made homogeneous with respect to those of the other shooting ranges.
However, especially in the case of the shooting range according to the present invention, the structural features of the shooting range can be modified after its realization, and according to the specific requirements of the purchaser, with no need for long and costly additional work.
Moreover, employing a solution like that proposed by the Applicant, it is possible in case of unrepairable damages to substitute very quickly the module in question.
The realization of the shooting range of the present invention according to ISO standards allows the same to be easily transported with any transportation means, even overseas.
In addition, if the modules are realized so that they can be overlapped to one another, it is possible to double the performance of the shooting range without increasing its horizontal overall dimensions.
The light weight of the structures allows the shooting range to be constructed on top of already existing buildings or inside the same.
These and other achievements are obtained according to the present i
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