Optical sight enhancing blade arrangement
OwnerCharles W. Winters, Janice F. Wintersinventors
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Abstract
An optical sight typically used in cooperation with a weapon is provided to include a light tube, that in turn further is provided with a blade member mounted to the light tube that includes a concave surface of mirror image reflective qualities directing light into the light tube for enhanced optical illumination through the sight arrangement.
Claims1
An optical sight enhancing blade arrangement in combination with a sight housing, having a housing front wall spaced from a housing rear wall, and a housing bottom wall spaced from a housing top wall, with the housing including an objective tube directed into the housing through the housing front wall, and an eyepiece tube longitudinally aligned with the objective tube, with the eyepiece tube directed into the housing through the housing rear wall, and
- a light tube directed into the housing through the housing front wall oriented between the objective tube and the housing top wall, with the light tube including a mirror plate fixedly mounted to the light tube, with the mirror plate adapted to direct available light into the light tube, and
- the light tube includes an entrance opening, and the mirror plate includes a first end secured to the light tube, and includes a second end spaced beyond the entrance opening, with the mirror plate having a mirror plate concave interior reflective surface extending in a facing relationship relative to the entrance opening, and
- the mirror plate includes mirror plate spaced parallel sides and a plurality of parallel slots directed into the mirror plate concave interior surface coextensively therewith, with the slots oriented orthogonally relative to the sides, and
- the light tube includes a first tube mounted to the housing, the first tube having an annular ring groove spaced from the housing, and a second tube, the second tube having a second tube ring flange rotatably mounted within the annular ring groove, with the second tube and the first tube coaxially aligned relative to one another, and the second tube including the mirror plate first end fixedly mounted to the second tube.
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