Improvements in Disappearing Targets.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1889-Accepted, 14th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Disappearing Targets.
ARTHUR LOWE WINSER Watchmaker of 37 Preston Street Brighton in the County
of Sussex do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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The construction and working of the aforesaid is as follows. The targets are placed
in shoes which slide along a bar so that they will take any size target required, the bar is
fixed to a carriage running on wheels, there are two of these carriages one in rear of
the other one to carry the shooting target and one the scoring or value target the
wheels of the carriages run in open columns, the carriages have chains attached to
them which runs over pullies at the top, the targets are very easily balanced, the
chains are fitted to distancing hooks so that if a target was to drop on one side it is
easily corrected by altering the hooks. In direction the targets are worked as at
Wimbledon one up and the other down. A number of figure ta.gets can be placed
on the bar the one apparatus working them. The utility and principal features of this
invention are as follows that by running the targets wholly on wheeled frames or
carriages an enormous amount of labor is dispensed with, by using the bar and
sliding shoes any size target may be used by the same machinery, and by having the
open columns in which the wheels run, is a great advantage through no clogging up
by grit &c. and can be easily repaired if necessary. The whole of the parts are
interchangeable so that if one part is damaged or gives way it can be immediately
replaced, the hooks for bringing targets level is also an important improvement.
wheels on the frames can be placed to run in either direction with the pullies, or cross
wise by merely altering the shoulders. The marking is carried out in the same
manner as my patent No. 9641 13th August 1885 only that I have made an improve-
ment in the arm of the square which by being jointed saves the markers bending
it out of shape which if careless they would do on the old pattern. My main claim
on the improvements is the running carriages to which the targets are fixed.
Dated 10th day of January 1889.
The
A. L. WINSER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Disappearing Targets.
I ARTHUR LOWE WINSER Watchmaker of 37 Preston Street Brighton in the
County of Sussex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
In the drawing Fig. 1 represents front view of machinery and targets Fig. 2
represents a side or end view of same.
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The construction and working of the aforesaid is as follows. The targets are
placed in the shoes or sockets inarked A, by the turning the handles marked B the shoes
can be released so as to slide along the bar C, to take the different sized targets
required the bar C is fixed to the frames or carriages marked D which run
wheels E. The frames D have chains fixed to them which run on pullies F on one
end of the chains will be seen the hooks marked G which will shorten or lengthen for
the purpose of levelling the targets when necessary the uprights H, are placed apart
so that the wheels run in open grooves marked [, the cap acts as a stop and also
braces the uprights together, the brace K on which the pullies are fixed can be
carried out beyond the width of targets so that supports can be fixed to same,
the marking apparatus L works on the same principle as my patent No. 9641,

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13th Aug. 1885 only it is improved by jointing the arm and placing over it a spring
as shown on rear target in fig. 2 the whole of the system is quickly interchangeable.
Brackets can be fixed on the bar if desired at different distances for carrying the
different patterns of figure targets by an elongated bar a number of figures may be
worked in simple form. The machinery can be constructed either wholly of metal or
partially of wood for cheapness, the wheels can also be used running cross-wise to the
pullies by merely altering the position on the carriages, for cheapness a wooden bar
can be substituted for the iron one and the targets fixed to same without the shoes.
To work the system it is done in the following manner the marker gives the value
immediately on shot piercing the target then lowers the target that is struck which
brings the marking target to view showing the value of the shot then the marker
places on a spotting disc denoting where shot has gone through and he then returns the
target as before, the marking apparatus gives the whole of the values required,
the targets are very easily balanced by merely weighting either carriage sufficiently,
tlie principal features of this system are the, wholly running on wheels making it
so easy to work and does away with the laborious sliding systems the open columns
also are a great acquisition through there being no chances of grit etc. lodging in
them and makes everything easy to be seen so that any alteration if any can be
speedily corrected. The width of the machinery can be altered by lengthening top
& bottom although really a trench system it can be used wholly or partially above
ground by raising the marker's protection.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1stly. The system wholly running on wheels.
2ndly. The improvement in the marking apparatus as specified.
Brdly The shoes and mode of structure of columns or uprights as herein set forth.
ARTHUR LOWE WINSER.