Mechanical guns and projectors – Centrifugal – Mechanical
Patent
1998-07-29
2000-02-22
Ricci, John A.
Mechanical guns and projectors
Centrifugal
Mechanical
124 8, F41J 918
Patent
active
060267968
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention has for its object a target launching apparatus for practicing firing firearms.
The invention is applicable particularly to launching targets of the "rabbit" type. These targets are not to be launched into the air to be sighted and hit in flight, but are adapted to roll on the ground to be hit in their path along the ground.
To this end, these "rabbit" targets or clay pigeons are perfectly circular and comprise a wide periphery serving as a rim which permits them to roll.
The launching apparatus imparts to the targets a rapid rotative movement about their axis. The launching apparatus launches the targets or "rabbits" by making them roll.
BACKGROUND OF THE THE SUMMARY
At present, right and left firing are more and more popular. The object is to hit two targets with two successive rounds.
For right and left with targets of the "rabbit" type, this is possible only with two launching devices disposed side by side. Launching with the same apparatus two successive targets is not sufficiently rapid, the time delay between the two launches is too long. The use of two launching apparatuses has its drawbacks. The cost is high, manipulation, transportation and storage are multiplied by two, the space occupied on the firing range is also too great.
The invention seeks to overcome all these problems.
The launching apparatus according to the invention can launch right and left with a single launcher, and the same and single motor, each launching arm being independent.
The state of the art can be defined by the following patents: comprises a flexible vertical wheel mounted rotatably above a launching ramp in which the targets are moved vertically one by one. Upstream of the wheel are mounted two retention members which retain the targets in the ramp. These retention members have controlled action and have for their object, on the one hand, to retain the targets in the ramp upstream of the wheel and on the other hand to press the targets one by one toward the wheel. The wheel grasps the targets one by one and launches them along the ground by imparting to them a rapid rotation movement about their axis.
The apparatus according to the invention has been principally adapted to launch targets of the "rabbit" type. combination with a target in the form of a disc, said mechanism is characterized by launching the target straight in a predetermined horizontal direction, so as to roll continuously along the environs of the target, said launching being characterized by impressing a movement of translation on the target and is characterized by said translatory movement so as to communicate rotation to the target about its axis with a peripheral velocity at least equal substantially to its speed of translation, said launch being characterized by the rolling of the target along the ramp whilst the target bears on said ramp of curved form, receiving and guiding freely the target and having a lower portion conforming to the periphery of the target, the depth of the curve is adjustable for reception of discs of different sizes.
None of these launchers discloses an apparatus permitting launching left and right.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The launching apparatus according to the invention is of the type using a motor, a motor reducer, a loading arm, an ejection spring, an ejection arm, it is characterized by the fact that it comprises a motor, a reducer which drives, by pendulous movement, a loading rod secured to one or several loading plates, each loading plate acting, by a loading trigger, on an ejection arm by compressing the ejection spring, a blockage lug controlled by an electromagnetic housing frees or blocks each ejection arm so as to control commencement of firing. Each ejection arm has its axis of rotation coaxial to the axis of rotation of the loading rod secured to the reducer.
According to a particular embodiment, the motor is disposed vertically with, in prolongation thereof, the reducer, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said reducer, a loading arm emerges from each side o
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patent: 3093127 (1963-06-01), Starr
patent: 3246642 (1966-04-01), Cleveland
LaPorte Jean Michel
Panara Paul
Laporte Ball Trap S.A.
Ricci John A.
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