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US 8,910,944 B2Granted
Target practice device
OwnerRussell Eugene Mason, IIIinventor
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Abstract
A shooting practice target that includes a roll with an elongated sheet having multiple images. The sheet is movable across a shooting zone formed in a frame. The sheet is movable across the shooting zone to position each of the images for use as a target. A back support may be positioned behind (away from the user) the sheet to support and position the images for viewing by the user.
Claims20
A target for shooting practice comprising:
- a frame defining a shooting zone;
- a first tube mounted at a first side of the frame;
- a second tube mounted at a second side of the frame on an opposing side of the shooting zone from the first tube;
- a back support within the frame at the shooting zone and including a front face, an opposing back face, a first lateral side in proximity to the first tube that includes a first indent, and a second lateral side in proximity to the second tube that includes a second indent, each of the first and second lateral sides extending between the front and back faces;
- an elongated sheet with a length measured between a first end and a second end and being wrapped around the first and second tubes, the first end positioned at the first tube and the second end positioned at the second tube, the sheet extending in front of and being in contact with the front face of the back support across the shooting zone;
- the first tube positioned in the first indent and the second tube positioned in the second indent;
- a plurality of images formed on the sheet and being spaced apart along the length of the sheet;
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- the tubes being rotatably mounted to the frame to rotate in a first direction to wind the sheet around the first tube and unwind the sheet from the second tube and move the images across the shooting zone in a first direction.
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A target for shooting practice comprising:
- a frame forming an open central section;
- a back support positioned in the central section, the back support including a first face orientated in a first direction and an opposing second face oriented in a second direction, the back support also comprising lateral sides that extend between the first and second faces;
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- a roll with first and second tubes and an elongated sheet that is wound onto the tubes, the first tube being rotatably mounted to the frame on a first side of the central section and the second tube being rotatably mounted to the frame on a second side of the central section with a portion of the sheet extending across the central section in front of and in contact with the first face of the back support, each of the first and second tubes being positioned within the lateral sides and behind the first face of the back support to prevent contact with a projectile;
- the sheet including a length measured between a first end positioned at the first tube and a second end positioned at the second tube that is greater than a distance across the central section between the tubes, the sheet further comprising a plurality of images spaced apart between the first and second ends;
- the roll being positionable at a variety of rotational orientations each having a different amount of the sheet wound around the first tube, each of the orientations including different ones of the images positioned in the central section of the frame with the remaining ones of the images being wound onto one of the first and second tubes.
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A method of using a target comprising:
- mounting a first tube to a frame along a first side of a shooting zone, the shooting zone being formed within an interior of the frame;
- mounting a second tube to the frame along an opposing second side of the shooting zone;
- positioning a sheet that is partially wound around the first and second tubes across the shooting zone and in front of and in contact with a back support that is positioned in the frame and extends across the shooting zone while sections of the sheet are wound around the first and second tubes, the sheet being longer than a distance between the first and second tubes;
- rotating each of the first and second tubes in a first direction and moving the sheet across curved lateral edges of the back support and winding the sheet onto the first tube and unwinding the sheet from the second tube and aligning a first image on the sheet within the shooting zone;
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- rotating each of the first and second tubes an additional amount in the first direction and moving the sheet across the curved lateral edges of the back support and winding the sheet farther onto the first tube and unwinding the sheet farther off of the second tube and aligning a second image on the sheet within the shooting zone.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.