Binocular telescope having an integrated laser range finder

Abstract

A binocular telescope with an integrated laser rangefinder, consisting of: separate first and second telescope tubes (1, 2), each with an eyepiece (3, 3′) and a lens (4, 4′) that can be focused, wherein the telescope tubes (1, 2) are connected to one another by a folding bridge for setting the eye spacing, the folding bridge contains an eyepiece-side and a separate lens-side hinge body (5, 6), the eyepiece-side hinge body (5) contains a first hinge eye (7) connected to the first telescope tube (1) and a second hinge eye (8) connected to the second telescope tube (2), which are connected to one another by a hinge shaft (9), on which a rotary knob (10) is mounted for focusing the lenses (4, 4′) arranged in the telescope tubes (1, 2), and wherein the receiver of the laser rangefinder and an optoelectronic display element are arranged in the first telescope tube (1) in a fixed arrangement with respect to the optical observation axis (18) of the first telescope tube (1) and, with the transmission axis (17) thereof, the transmitter (26) of the laser rangefinder is arranged on the lens-side hinge body (6), parallel to the optical observation axis (18) of the first telescope tube (1) and flush with the hinge shaft (9) in the eyepiece-side hinge body (5), for emitting a transmission beam parallel to the direction of the observation axis (18) of the first telescope tube (1), and wherein the lens-side hinge body (6) has two first and second brackets (11, 12), which are each connected to the first and second telescope tubes (1, 2) and screwed to one another under an axially acting spring force (23) such that they can rotate in opposite directions about an axis flush with the hinge shaft (9) in the eyepiece-side hinge body (5), and wherein the first bracket (11) connected to the first telescope tube (1) is arranged behind the second bracket (12) connected to the second telescope tube (2) in the observation direction and the transmitter (26) of the laser rangefinder is arranged on the first bracket (11).

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