US Patent: 565,358
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| Target Meter
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Patentee:
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| Robert F. Langer (exact or similar names) - San Francisco, CA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Mar. 06, 1896 |
| Granted: |
Aug. 04, 1896 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Spear, & Seely - patent attorneys
In target shooting at the present day the "bull's-eye is a circular piece of paper or thin paper-board generally six inches in diameter and affixed to but removable from the center of a larger target. After the conclusion of a match the bull's-eyes are removed and the best ones of the several competitors are compared and measured by skilled and expert judges. This judging and measuring is a matter of time, labor, difficulty, and great responsibility, and frequently results, after long discussion and a great amount of measuring and remeasuring, in the declaration of ties always an unsatisfactory result to the competitors, as well as to the judges who declare them, because their decisions are generally questioned. Now while a tie between two rifle shots is theoretically possible, still if the human eye and hand were capable of measuring the thousandth part of an inch it would never occur. The object of my invention is to provide a target-meter of simple construction which will measure and indicate differences in distance too small to be observed by the human eye, and which in its operation requires no expert manipulation, because it eliminates the personal equation, or error inseparable from the measurements of any particular person. It also results in a great saving of time in measurement, and as, when properly constructed, it is infallible, its decisions can never be questioned. It does away with ties, and instead gives actual differences in distance to the thousandth of an inch if necessary. |
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