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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360333 | Accessory devices for firearms An accessory device for being mounted to a longitudinal rail carried by a firearm and accommodating longitudinal rails of different configurations. A preferred embodiment comprises a light beam generator including a housing, elongate members removably secured to the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350329 | Scope adjustment method and apparatus A rifle scope system allows adjustment of the scope while a shooter maintains the shooting posture and the scope sight picture. The scope system comprises an adjustment system comprising an electromechanical mechanism that responds to a signal from a remote controll... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7325352 | Accessory devices for firearms An accessory device for being mounted to a longitudinal rail carried by a firearm and accommodating longitudinal rails of different configurations. A preferred embodiment comprises a light beam generator including a housing, elongate members removably secured to the... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7269907 | Laser line generating device with swivel base A laser alignment device includes a laser generating device, an upper attachment portion, and a lower attachment portion. The laser generating device includes a housing and a laser generator. The upper attachment portion is disposed near a bottom of the housing, and... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260911 | In-line muzzle loader bore sight and maintenance system A firearm bore sighting system is described for in-line muzzle loaders which include a breach plug, the bore sighting system rotating into the breach plug threads and which may include a stop to locate the bore sighting system relative to the breach. ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7117624 | Accessory devices for firearms An accessory device for being mounted to a longitudinal rail carried by a firearm and accommodating longitudinal rails of different configurations. A preferred embodiment comprises a light beam generator including a housing, elongate members removably secured to the... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6941851 | System for elevation and directional angle aiming of a weapon An elevation and traverse laying system for a weapon comprising a first traverse positioning element to position the weapon in traverse along a large angular range with respect to a first axis of rotation in traverse, having a first positioning element in elevation ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6311424 | Telescope for weapons and other applications A telescope apparatus and system for rifles and other weapons comprising a forward portion, consisting of a forward objective lens fixed on the front end of a firing line light tube, held firmly to the weapon by slip springs in which the forward light tub... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6123006 | Retrofit extended vision module for weapon system optical sight An optical sight for a weapon system is upgraded with a retrofit module that provides both gunner sighting at the eyepiece and video transmission of the image the gunner sees to a remote location such as, for example, the helmet display of the commander f... | 09/26/2000 |
| 5813279 | System for positioning boresight calibration tools A system useful in boresight calibration of a launch cell is provided. The aunch cell has a central longitudinal axis coincident with a central longitudinal axis of a projectile that it would support. The launch cell terminates at either end thereof in a d... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5720111 | Boresight A boresight assembly for artillery having one or more baffles defining a central passageway and a perimeter passageway with a sighting periscope receivable within the passageway.... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5657546 | Spotting round bore alignment mechanism for rocket launcher A mechanism for providing fine adjustment to achieve parallelism of a spong rifle barrel and a launcher tube is provided. The mechanism uses a convex spherical or near spherical surface on the rear of the spotter barrel which is mated to a concave conica... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5648633 | Elevation sight mount for a piece of artillery An elevation sight amount for a piece of artillery includes a support to accommodate a goniometer and two perpendicular spirit levels to check the verticality of the goniometer. The support is rotatably mounted around an axis oriented perpendicular to a l... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5208418 | Aligning method for a fire control device and apparatus for carrying out the alignment method The method and apparatus for determining and correcting alignment errors between fire control devices and weapon systems are distinguished by the following features. Target measuring sensors are mounted on guns which are mounted on servo-controlled mounts... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5103567 | Gunner's augmentation sight A remote imaging target sight that may be used with numerous weapons such as pistols, rifles and man-portable anti-tank weapons that provides a gunner with the ability to sight around a corner or an obstruction without exposing himself to enemy fire. The ... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5068968 | Isolated press fit muzzle reference sight mount An improved reference sight mount device for use with a gun. The reference ight mount attaches to a gun tube having a mount receiving zone near the tube muzzle end. The mount includes a bracket for mounting a reference sight, and includes a band having a c... | 12/03/1991 |
| 4879814 | Method and apparatus for boresight alignment of armored battlefield weapons The disclosure relates to a boresight unit wherein an electro-optic package is disposed in a gun shell casing and loaded into the breach end of the main gun tube of a tank for use in boresighting visible or thermal gunsights. The package includes a laser ... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4785543 | Sighting device for a ballistic projectile apparatus The ring-shaped sighting device comprises an annular ring-shaped space the axial height of which decreasing from a window provided in the annular space for observing the level of the liquid to the opposite side. Hence, the uneven bottom forms a displacer ... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4409738 | Arrangement for adjustably mounting an optical direction indicator In an arrangement for adjustably mounting an optical direction indicator, such as a sighting telescope (1) with associated base (4) on a substructure (8), the base (4) is provided with three attachment points (5, 6, 7), which are adjustable to give the di... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4208801 | Mortar sighting device Method and apparatus for aiming a missile firing weapon, such as a mortar, including a sighting device including a transit type aiming device with a mount means adapted to carry a reference plate rotatable in a generally horizontal plane on the mount mean... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4026190 | Mortar sighting device The present invention provides an arrangement useful in sighting a missile firing weapon, such as a mortar, from a fixed emplacement or from a platform on a weapon carrying vehicle which can include a ring, marked with selected angular indications such as... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3997762 | Fire control system A Tank fire control system is disclosed which includes a sighting device having a visual display on which a plurality of images are presented in superimposition. The first image is formed from radiation in the visible spectrum emanating from the field vie... | 12/14/1976 |
