Patent ID: 7676981
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: F41G

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture in combination with a weapon sight having a reticle pattern and fiber optic, the article of manufacture comprising: a photoluminescent tube comprising a passively charged photoluminescent material, each of the photoluminescent tube and the photoluminescent material axially surrounding at least a portion of a fiber optic of the weapon sight; wherein at least a portion of the fiber optic is external to the weapon sight; wherein the photoluminescent tube is at least partially internal to the weapon sight; wherein the photoluminescent tube is configured so that, when installed in the weapon sight, the photoluminescent material, when passively charged by a light source, provides light which is axially introduced into the fiber optic along a length of the fiber optic that extends in a longitudinal direction of the weapon sight and transmitted during low light conditions to illuminate the reticle pattern.