Articulated aiming support
OwnerThomas K. M. Petersoninventor
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Abstract
An aiming support apparatus dependable from a central portion of a shooting platform is provided. The apparatus includes an arm having a base and an extension selectively extendible from a free end of the arm base. The arm extension includes a socket adapted to receive a shooting staff. The arm base is suspended from a bracket assembly for pivot motion about a pivot axis. The bracket assembly is affixable to the shooting platform so as to substantially underlay a shooter positioned thereon, the socket being swingingly positionable beyond a perimeter of the shooting platform in response to a marksman's torso motions in furtherance of pursuit of a scoped target.
Claims28
An aiming support apparatus dependable from a central portion of a shooting platform, said apparatus comprising:
- a. an arm having a base and an extension selectively extendible from a free end of said arm base, said arm extension including a socket adapted to receive a shooting staff;
- and,
- b. a bracket assembly affixable to the shooting platform so as to substantially underlay a shooter positioned thereon, said arm base being suspended from said bracket assembly for pivot motion about a pivot axis, said socket being thereby swingingly positionable beyond a perimeter of the shooting platform.
An aiming support assembly comprising:
- a. a shooting platform;
- and
- b. an articulated armature assembly depending from an interior portion of said shooting platform, said armature assembly including an extendable arm adapted at a free end thereof to receive a staff, said arm being pivotable about a pivot axis, said pivot axis being substantially aligned with a center of mass of a marksman positioned upon said shooting platform.
The aiming support assembly of claim 20 wherein said shooting platform includes a continuous surface terminating at a perimeter edge of said shooting platform.
An aiming support assembly comprising:
- a. a shooting platform;
- b. an articulated armature assembly depending from said shooting platform, said armature assembly including an extendable arm adapted at a free end thereof to receive a staff, said arm being pivotable about a pivot axis, said pivot axis being substantially aligned with a center of mass of a marksman positioned upon said shooting platform;
- and,
- c. a staff receivably supported at said free end of said extendable arm, said staff having a free end adapted to receive a cradle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.