Open sight addition for a telescopic gun sight
OwnerEdward R. Hugginsinventor
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Abstract
Provided is an open sight addition for a telescopic gun sight of a type having a front bell which includes a cylindrical forward portion and a frustoconical rearward portion. A sight bead is mounted on an upper central portion of the cylindrical forward portion of the bell. The sight beat projects vertically upwardly from the bell. An elongated sight line is formed on an upper central portion of the frustoconical rearward portion of the bell, rearwardly of and in axial alignment with the sight beam on the forward cylindrical portion of the bell. The sight bead and the sight line together form a sight plane.
Claims2
A telescopic gun sight of a type having a front bell which includes a cylindrical forward portion and a frustoconical rearward portion having an upper central surface portion which slopes upwardly to the cylindrical forward portion, and an open sight addition comprising:
- a sight bead on an upper central portion of the cylindrical forward portion of the bell, said sight bead projecting vertically upwardly from the cylindrical forward portion of the bell;
- an elongated sight line on said sloping upper central portion of the frustoconical rearward portion of the bell, rearwardly of and in axial alignment with the sight bead on the forward cylindrical portion of the bell, said sight line sloping upwardly towards the sight bead, and said sight bead and said sloping sight line together forming a sight plane on top of the telescopic gun sight and together forming an open sight addition to the telescopic gun sight;
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- said telescopic gun sight including no other open sight element rearwardly of the front bell, wherein in use of the open sight addition for aiming, the user sights along said sight line towards the sight beard and the target.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.