Rifle scope with adjusting aid

#The invention concerns a rifle scope with an adjusting aid.

#Rifle scopes are used for hunting and in the military to sight weapons on targets at great distance. For this, they have a lens arrangement along an optical path inside a housing, by which a target object is magnified. In particular, the lens arrangement comprises at least one objective and one eyepiece. The objective is an optical collecting system for real optical imaging of the target object and the eyepiece is a lens system by which one can look into the lens arrangement with one eye.

#An intermediate image projected by the objective in a first image plane at the objective side is magnified and projected into a second image plane at the eyepiece side. Large magnifications only allow limited fields of vision, which do not permit an overview of a larger image portion, especially at short range. In order to also effectively include these objects in the sight, there is a variable magnification, or so-called zoom, in the prior art.

#Other features, details and advantages of the invention will emerge from the wording of the claims as well as the following description of sample embodiments with the aid of the drawings. There are shown:

#FIG. 1 a perspective view of a rifle scope with an adjusting aid on an adjusting wheel; and

#FIG. 2 a magnified view of a region of FIG. 1 in which the adjusting aid is situated.

#FIG. 1 shows a rifle scope 1 in a perspective view. This has a housing 10, in which optical lenses 20, 21, 22, 23 are arranged along an optical path OP. In particular, the housing 10 is tubular in design and the optical lenses 20, 21, 22, 23 are mounted in the housing 10. Some of the optical lenses 20 form an objective in the region of an entry opening 8 of the housing 10. Others of the optical lenses 21 form an eyepiece in the region of an exit opening 9 of the housing 10. In the middle portion of the tubular housing 10 there are arranged optical lenses 22, 23 which form an inversion system. With these lenses 22, 23, an optical magnification of a target object can also be carried out, since these optical lenses 22, 23 of the inversion system are each mounted movable along the optical path OP in the housing 10.

#In the present case, the optical path OP and an optical axis OA of the rifle scope 1 outside of the latter are congruent or coaxial. Merely by adjustment functions of the rifle scope 1 can the optical path OP inside the housing 10 deviate slightly from the optical axis OA.

#There is also arranged along the optical path OP in the housing 10 a sighting marker, such as a target marker, crosshairs, a ruled plate or a graphic projection. This sighting marker preferably lies in a first image plane between the objective and the inversion system or in a second image plane between the inversion system and the eyepiece.