Patent GB-190417410-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Target Apparatus or the like where no Projectile is Employed
Filed: 1904-08-10
Granted: 1905-07-27
Abstract: 17,410. Auto-Electric Rifle and Target Co., [Automatic Target Machine Co.]. Aug. 10. Shooting-galleries.-Relates to target apparatus in which no projectile is used, provided with means for giving a permanent record of the shots made. The target device itself is similar to that described in Specification No. 17,406, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Toys &c.], the pistol 4, Fig. 2, being mounted on a rigid hollow support 5 pivoted at 7 to a horizontal turntable 8 so that the pistol and support can have a universal motion. An arm 19 is rigidly connected to the side of the support 5, and carries at its other end a marker disc similar to that described in the above-mentioned Specification. The lever 16, Fig. 2<a>, consists of two crank levers connected together, the upper arms of which are connected to rods 18, 49. When the trigger of the pistol is pulled to release the pawl 10, a spring pulls the arm of the lever 16 down, thus pulling the rod 18 towards the left. This causes the screen interposed between the marker and target to be withdrawn, and also actuates a toggle brake to lock the marker in position. Coin action.-To cock the pistol ready for firing, a coin is dropped into the slot s and the lever 36 depressed. The coin causes a sliding hook 37 to engage with a cross-bar 38 on a lever 16 pivoted at 15, raising one arm and a rod 13 attached to it and connected to a pawl 10, which is held by the trigger of the pistol when the rod is in the raised position. Delivery mechanism for tickets. The arm 49 is also moved when the trigger is pulled, and is caused to operate the recording-device shown in Fig. 6. A strip S of aluminium &c., on which is marked miniature targets, is fed from a drum 50 through a guide 51 over a sprocket feed-wheel 52, held by a dog 57 engaging with notches 56 in the wheel. As the rod 47 is pushed to the right in setting the trigger, a pawl 67 mounted on it slides over an elbowlever 65 and pushes on the end 57<a> of the dog 57, thus releasing the wheel, which can then be rotated to bring forward a strip of metal. As the wheel is rotated, the end of a lever 59, pivoted at 60 and caused to press against the wheel by a spring 62, slides in a cam-groove 61, causing the end 63 to be moved to the left, thus releasing the pivoted elbow 65, which drops owing to gravity. This causes the pawl 67 to drop on to a ratchet-wheel 69 provided with twelve teeth and three equidistant pins 71. The strip of metal, after passing over the wheel 52, passes down in front of a block A. A bracket 74, fixed to the marker arm 19, carries a point 72, which is driven against the surface of the strip by a swing- ing arm 75 as the trigger is pulled. The point 72 is so adjusted as to move in front of the small target on the strip 8 in the same way that the marker moves behind the target. Owing to the arm 65 having dropped, the wheel is held by the dog 57, the pawl 67 moving the ratchet-wheel by one tooth each time the pistol is set, thus moving also the pins 71. Each pin in turn depresses a lever 79 pivoted to a lever 81 which is pivoted at 82, causing the other end of the lever 79 to bear against and raise a pawl 89 pivoted to the bar 49. When the bar 49 moves back after the trigger being pulled, the pawl 89 engages with a notch r in a pivoted lever 87, causing cutters 54 to sever the strip, which then falls out through a slot in the side. It also causes the lever 87 to press against the pin 86 of the lever 81, thus deflecting the lever 79 so that it can pass the pin 71. The pin 86 also raises the elbow-lever 65 to its original position. As the first setting of the trigger causes the pawl 67 to move over the lever 65, and the wheel 69 being provided with four teeth between each pin 71, a target strip is cut off at each fifth shot. Fig. 11 shows one of these strips.