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US 4,070,763 AGranted
Aiming/sighting device
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorStanley L. Carts, Jr.
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Abstract
An aiming device is provided which combines the directional properties of llow micro-channel or similar fibers and the light radiation properties of Day-Glo plastics and phosphorescent paints.
Claims7
An aiming device comprising:
- at least two bundles of straight parallel light collimating fibers having normal ends with diameters which are orders of magnitude less than their lengths, the fibers in each bundle being equal in length and the fibers in each bundle having a length to diameter ratio different from the fibers in every other bundle;
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- an illumination means attached to said bundles to illuminate one end of the fibers in each bundle with light of one color, the colors for adjacent bundles being different.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.