Improvements in Targets for Trap-shooting.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Apr., 1896-Accepted, 23rd May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by ASA NORMAN WHITNEY, of the Melbourne Club,
Collins Street, Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Master Mariner and Engincer.]
Improvements in Targets for Trap-shooting.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co. Patent Agents,
45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to targets for trap-shooting and has for its object a target
which can be easily broken or perforated by small shot and which, when so broken
or perforated will discharge a shower of feathers, or other light material or articles,
that float for a time in a conspicuous manner in the air, so as to be clearly visible
to the sportsman.
The case or shell of the target is made of terra cotta, glass or other fragile
substance and may be of any convenient shape. It is provided with a charging
orifice or opening which after the stuffing material is inserted is closed by means
of a cap or cover of any suitable thin and preferably fragile substance secured in
position in any convenient manner.
If the target be moulded from a plastic substance the cap or cover can be secured
in or over the opening in the target by bending over the edges of the case while
the same are still in a plastic state.
The target is intended to be thrown into the air from a trap or projector suitably
constructed for the purpose.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 :-
My invention relates to targets for trap-shooting and has for its object a target
which can be easily broken by small shot and which, when so broken will discharge
a shower of feathers, or other light material or articles, that float for a time in
a conspicuous manner in the air, so as to be clearly visible to the sportsman.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood I will now describe by
way of example one form of the same with reference to the accompanying drawings,
in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved target.
Figure 2 is a central vertical section on the line x, x Figure 1 and
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page_text: A is the case or shell of the target which is made of terra cotta, glass or other
fragile substanco and may be of any convenient shape. It is provided with a
charging orifice or opening B, which, after the feathers or other stuffing material C
is inserted, is closed by means of a cap or cover D of any suitable thin and
preferably fragile substance secured in position in any convenient manner.
If the target be moulded from a plastic substance the cap or cover can be
secured in or over the opening in the target by bending over the edges of the case
while the same are still in a plastic state.
The target is intended to be thrown into the air from a trap or projector suitably
constructed for the purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A target for trap-shooting consisting of a case or shell of terra-cotta or other
fragile substance containing feathers or other light articles or material substantially
as, and for the purpose, specified.
2. The target constructed substantially as described with reference to the accom-
panying drawings, and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 2nd day of April 1896.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.