Firearms with target illuminators, electric switching devices and battery power sources
US6345464B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 13, 1999 |
| Grant date | Feb 12, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 13, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF41G1/35
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Apparatus for firing projectiles at targets and for illuminating such targets include a projectile-firing elongate weapon having a fore-end structure and a target illuminator on that fore-end structure in a first quadrant between a vertical plane and a horizontal plane longitudinally through such elongate weapon in a firing position of that weapon. Additionally or alternatively, a target illuminator may include a housing in one piece with part of the fore-end structure. An electric lamp assembly for target illuminators, flashlights or other light sources has a support structure, a bezel structure on that support structure, and a shock-absorbed reflector structure inside that bezel structure. Such shock-absorbed reflector structure includes a reflector having a focal point, a first shock absorber between that reflector and the support structure and a second shock absorber between the bezel structure and that reflector. An electric light source has a luminous portion maintained on the focal point in the reflector by corresponding transverse and longitudinal luminous portion positioners at the light source and the shock absorbed reflector. An electric battery is composed of individual…
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