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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7351061 | Pattern testing board and system A pattern testing board is able to detect an emission beam such as a laser or light beam from a shooting system. A pattern testing board includes a plurality of paired emission beam sensors and hit indicators. Each emission beam sensor is responsive to a detected em... | 04/01/2008 |
| 6960085 | Pattern testing board and system A pattern testing board is able to detect an emission beam such as a laser or light beam from a shooting system. A pattern testing board includes a plurality of paired emission beam sensors and hit indicators. Each emission beam sensor is responsive to a detected em... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6780014 | Pattern testing board and system A pattern testing board is able to detect an emission beam such as a laser or light beam from a shooting system. A pattern testing board includes a plurality of paired emission beam sensors and hit indicators. Each emission beam sensor is responsive to a detected em... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6315568 | System for simulating shooting sports A system for simulating shooting sports includes a non-projectile ammunition transmitter system that is retrofittable to any standard firearm having an ammunition chamber, a barrel, and a firing pin and a self-contained receiver system. The transmitter sy... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6068484 | System for simulating shooting sports A system for simulating shooting sports includes a non-projectile ammunition transmitter system that is retrofittable to any standard firearm having an ammunition chamber, a barrel, and a firing pin and a self-contained receiver system. The transmitter sy... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5716216 | System for simulating shooting sports A system for simulating shooting sports includes a non-projectile ammunition transmitter system that is retrofittable to any standard firearm having an ammunition chamber, a barrel, and a firing pin and a self-contained receiver system. The transmitter sy... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5316312 | Airborn archery target A six sided double walled container housing having an open top and holding within the confines of those walls the canopy and lines of a parasail device therein and by four flexable fingers extending partly over the contents from the top perimeter of the f... | 05/31/1994 |
| 4961585 | Flying target with marker A flying target is provided which utilizes a conventional target disc made of a material which is readily broken when struck in flight by pellets, a marker assembly for marking the location where the target disc is broken and a retainer assembly for secur... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4443014 | Combat simulator means A device adaptable to inexpensive models to operate either in a mode of being attacked or an attack mode that permits sequential shooting of energy within a predetermined angle profile and, within range limits, the receipt of such energy whereupon visual ... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4433842 | Target pigeon An improved target pigeon for simulating the erratic and unpredictable flight of a flushed bird for target shooting which includes a wing member and a detachable cap member. The wing member is provided with blanked out tabs and the cap member is dome shap... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4352496 | Plastic and metal target pigeon A target pigeon has a base part comprising a generally flat web formed at a web axis with a central throughgoing hole and having a pair of diametrically opposite ends on which are mounted diametrically opposite vanes that are tipped propeller-fashion to e... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4345765 | Moving target means of shooting gallery The present invention relates to a mechanism for providing air-supported floating lightballs as moving targets in shooting galleries in which the height of the lightballs is constantly changed by varying the current passing through associated air pumps th... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4335882 | Sheet-metal target pigeon A target pigeon has a generally flat web formed entirely of sheet metal with a central throughgoing hole at a web axis and having a pair of diametrically opposite web ends from each of which extends a sheet-metal vane which is tipped propeller-fashion rel... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4274636 | Flying target pigeons A target pigeon is made of high-impact material, formed with a ring-shaped hub spanned by a cross-member and a circular wall having a convex outer face and provided with a level bottom edge and with an uneven top edge. The maximum height of this wall coin... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4243228 | Remotely-perceptible impact-indicating projectile target A remotely-perceptible, impact-indicating target for a projectile, such as a bullet or the like, constructed so as to remotely perceptibly indicate, to a target shooter at a projectile shooting location, the impact of a shot or fired projectile or bullet ... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4218061 | Reusable target pigeon for autoloading launcher A target pigeon for use in an autoloading target-pigeon launcher has a generally flat and circular ring centered on a ring axis and having a continuous and uninterrupted circular inner periphery defining a circular open space, a substantially circular out... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4206919 | Reusable target pigeon with universal witness disk A target pigeon has a body part in turn having a generally flat web formed with a central throughgoing hole and a pair of offset drive holes, and a pair of vanes extending diametrically opposite each other propeller-fashion from the ends of the web. Outwa... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4135559 | Water squirt toy and fill valve combination A water squirt toy apparatus including a combination of a water squirt toy and a special filling valve which function together cooperatively. The water squirt toy includes a resiliently expansible tubular member serving as a water reservoir and encased within ... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4133532 | Simulated target pigeon A two-piece target pigeon composed of (a) a ring with propeller wings extending radially and which are tilted in propeller fashion so that when spun about the centerline axis of the ring by a launching apparatus, the ring will displace itself axially thro... | 01/09/1979 |
| 3970308 | Ring, ball and cone retrieval apparatus A toy and game set of elements in which there is a major base in the form of a hollow truncated cone with a lower brim, adapted for being held in the hand of the player and including an annular ring member which is to be normally seated on the cone body s... | 07/20/1976 |
