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US 11,680,779 B2Granted
Trap machine with a spring manipulation mechanism
AssigneeBushnell Inc.
InventorsJoe Dunning, Christopher Bird, Michael Courpet, Aaron Taylor
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Abstract
A trap machine that launches clay targets, and the trap machine has a tensioning spring having a first end and a second end, the first end operatively connected to a motor assembly and the second end engaged to a first end of a threaded bolt the tensioning spring providing tension on a nut on the bolt against the rear of the housing; and a lever configured to releasably engage the threaded bolt and move the threaded bolt against the bias of the tensioning spring thereby releasing tension of the nut against the rear of the housing.
Claims17
A clay target launching machine comprising
- a motor assembly;
- a throwing arm operatively coupled to the motor assembly such that actuation of the motor assembly is translated into pivoting of the throwing arm to launch a clay target;
- a housing that supports, at least in part, the motor assembly and the throwing arm;
- a threaded bolt slidably disposed within the housing having a first end and a threaded second end, the threaded second end passing through a hole in a rear of the housing and a nut engaged to the second threaded end;
- a tensioning spring having a first end and a second end, the first end operatively connected to the motor assembly and the second end engaged to the first end of the threaded bolt;
- the tensioning spring providing tension on the nut against the rear of the housing;
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- a lever configured to releasably engage the threaded bolt and move the threaded bolt against a bias of the tensioning spring thereby releasing tension of the nut against the rear of the housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.