Reticle adjusting device for telescopic sights

• US 3,280,463 A
• Filed: 05/12/1964
• Issued: 10/25/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John T. Stadler
• Original Assignee: John T. Stadler
• Inventors: Stadler, John T.
• Application Number:
  US04/366,797
• Time in Patent Office: 896 Days
• US Class Current: 42/122
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/38 Telescopic sights specially adapted for smallarms or ordnance telescopic sights in general G02B; Supports or mountings therefor

Claims

1. IN A DEVICE OF THE TYPE DESCRIBED, A RETICLE, A ROTAABLE THREADED MEMBER ADAPTER TO RAISE AND LOWER SAID RETICLE AS THE THREADED MEMBER IS ROTATED, ROTATABLE MEANS DISENGAGEABLY CONNECTED TO SAID THREADED MEMBER AND ADAPTED TO ROTATE SAID THREADED MEMBER THEREWITH WHEN ENGAGED AND TO BE ROTATED TO A MULTIPLICITY OF ANGULAR POSITIONS RELATIVE TO SAID THREADED MEMBER WHEN DISENGAGED, SAID ROTATABLE MEANS BEING ADAPTED TO BE DISENGAGED AND TO BE RE-ENGAGED WITH SAID THREADED MEMBER AT ANY OF SAID ANGULAR POSITIONS, A REMOVABLE DIAL CONSTRUCTED AND ARRANGED TO BE APPLIED TO SAID ROTATABLE MEMBER, SAID DIAL HAVING A SCALE THEREON, COOPERATING LOCKING MEANS ON SAID ROTATABLE MEANS AND SAID DIAL FOR LOCKING SAID DIAL TO SAID ROTATABLE MEANS WITH SAID SCALE IN FIXED PREDETERMINED RELATION TO SAID ROTATABLE MEANS AND TO ROTATE ABOUT THE CENTER OF ROTATION THEREOF AS SAID MEANS IS ROTATED.