US880294A - Rifle-sight-lighting means. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED FEB. 25,1908.

. INO- 880,294.

C. W. GETCHELL. RIFLE SIGHT LIGHTING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.21, 1907.

FIG. 1

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CHESTER w. GETCHELL, or WATERVILLE, MAINE, Assienon or ONE-HALF TO realms,

WEBBER,- or WATERVIL-LE, MAINE- I nrrLa-sremr-Lren'rms mans.

Specification of Letters Patent,

Patented Feb. 25, 1968.

Application filed Jflllimry 21. 1 07. Serial No. 253.321.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, CHESTER W. Geron- TELL, a citizenof the United States, residing at Waterville, in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rifle Sight-Lighting Means; and I do declare the 'following to be a full, clear, and exact de" scription ofthe invention, such as will enable 1-0.

others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My inventionhas relation to new and use-- i'ul improvements in rille sight lighting means and has for its object the production of means for throwing small rays of light on the sights of a rifle,-making it possible to shoot with accuracy at dusk or at night.

1., Withj these ends in view, my invention fconslsts 1n the novel construction, combitrated in the drawings and set forth in the. specification and claims hereunto appended.

p In the accompanyingfdrawings, Figure 1 1s nation and arrangement of parts as illusa side elevation of a rifle barrel provided with my sight lighting means; and Fig. 2

is a cross-sectional View on the line 2-2 of I Fig. 1.

My lnventionis described as follows: The numeral 1 represents a rifle barrel, and 2 the magazine. Standards 3, their lower parts eonforn'nng wlth said rifle barrel and magazine, and terminating below said magazine in vertical eXtcnsionsA are removably clamped to said barrel and magazine immediatel opposite the rifle sights 5, by clam pextensions 4.

Suitable casings? provided a their upper ends with caps 8, of hard rubh: or like ma terial and having vertical perforations or openings 9 in' their lower ends centered on lines taken immediately in rear of there spective sights, are secured to the upper ends.

and inner faces of said standards. Each of said caps is provided on its under face with a bulb holder 10 and screwed or otherwise mg screws Gworlring through said verticalthelig'ht from the electric lights rom blurring or blinding the eyes of a person when shooting the mile and owing to the opemn s Q'bemg centered on hnes'taken immediately ed to said in rear of: the sights, the light will be directed upon and for properlyilluminating the sights.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to seeureb Letters-Patent, is I In a device of the class" described and in combination with a rifle barrel having an we open sight, a sipiport comprlsing gvppmref arms shaped to it upon opposite'sides of the barrel and having lower terminal perforated i ears, a clamping screw threaded through said ears for clamping the support to t e' barrel, a'casing secured between the upper ends of the arms in fixed position above the sight and having in its lower end an opening centered on a lineperpendicularlyto the longitudinal axis on. the barrel and taken immediatclyin rear of the sight, and a lamp "fixed in and wholly inclosed by the casing,

the light rays being projected through said opening in a direct path for illuminating the sight my hand in, presence of two subscribing witnes'seay) CHESTER JGETC HELL.

Witnesses:

L. AHDA U'Y, 1 LENA SAUCIER.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set

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