Patent GB-190827765-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Target-practice Apparatus.
Inventor: FAULKNER JOHN HENRY
Filed: 1908-12-21
Granted: 1909-12-21
Abstract: 27,765. Faulkner, J. H. Dec. 21. Targets. - Relates to target apparatus of the kind described in Specification No. 15,684, A.D. 1906, in which the target-carriers run along wires from the firing- point to the butt. A targetcarrier A, travelling along two wires B, is brought to the firing- point by winding on a drum D<2> a wire D attached to the carrier, and returns by gravity to the butts, where it starts a motor F which operates, through gearing, travelling and disappearing targets E, E<4>, E<5>, and H respectively, operates a valve D<3> of a water reservoir 0 to start a ball-fountain target, and lights electric or other lamps which illuminate the targets and bull's-eye apertures of stationary or travelling targets L. The supporting-wires B are adjusted in height on curved T-iron supports C by wires D' and hand-operated drums D<3>. Attached to the front of the frame A, is a bullet-deflecting plate G<1>, which carries adjustable metal shields G, between which the targets are exposed. The targets E, E<4>, E<5> are made of flexible penetrable material, and have various figures painted on them, as for example lines E<5> for recording hits made with rifles aimed at a lower target with the sights of the rifles raised. Target rollers E<2> and motordriven pulleys E<3> have pin-and-slot connexions and a target roller without a slot may be replaced by a slotted roller, to cause the corresponding target band to remain stationary. The disappearing targets H are raised into view by cam-pins H<3> on cord - operated pulleys H<1>, and fall by gravity. Between the flexible travelling targets E &c. are placed penetrable screens I, carried on a roller I<1> at one side of the frame, and attached to a clip I<2> at the other side, the screens serving as the background or landscape. Bullet-deflecting plates K are arranged to stop and deflect the shots passing through the moving targets and screens I, and the mechanism is protected by side shields. The illuminated bull's-eye targets L are arranged at the top of the frame, and are painted black with white lines and have a hole for the usual bull's-eye. These targets are clipped to a deflecting-plate M, and immediately behind them are conical shields N, fixed to the carrier and co-operating with fixed conical shields N', painted white and provided with electric or other lamps N<2> which illuminate the central apertures in the target. A shot, passing through the aperture, strikes against a pivoted bellcrank depending piece N<3>, the arm N<6> of which raises a sliding member of a dash-pot device N<7>, to close an electric-bell circuit by contact with a spring-pressed piece N<8>, the bell N' thus ringing for a certain period. A hole N<5> allows the collected shot to be withdrawn. One or more targets L, instead of being stationary, may be moved across the carrier by means of a chain driven from the motor. In this case the shields N, carried by the targets, are shaped to pass the fixed shields N', which have slots for their central openings, so that the target aperture can be illuminated for the period of time taken to traverse the length of the slot.