Mount for a telescopic sight

• US 3,908,950 A
• Filed: 02/26/1974
• Issued: 09/30/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ernst Apel
• Original Assignee: Ernst Apel
• Inventors: Apel, Ernst
• Primary Examiner(s): Zugel, Francis K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gibson, Jr., Robert W.
• Application Number:
  US05/446,022
• Time in Patent Office: 581 Days
• Field of Search: 248/25R,289,291,278 33/233,245,246,247,248,252,254,260
• US Class Current: 248/291.1
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 11/001 Means for mounting tubular or beam shaped sighting or aiming devices on firearms
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 11/005 Mountings using a pivot point and an anchoring point

Abstract

A mount for a telescopic sight has a first component which is mountable on a firearm, and a second component which extends upwardly and is formed with a bore for a telescopic sight. One of these components has a bifurcated portion and the other has a part located between the arms of the bifurcated portion. The arms are formed with two sets of bores, each having two axially aligned bores formed in the respective arms. The part located between the arms has two bores each of which is aligned with the bores of one set. Bolts extend through the bores and connect the two components together. The one bore in the part located between the arms of the bifurcated portion has a larger diameter than the associated bores in the bifurcated portion. The bolt extending through this particular bore has a threaded portion which meshes only with the threads in one of the bores of the associated set formed in the arms of the bifurcated portion. The bolt extending through the other set and the associated bore of the part located between the arms of the bifurcated portion may also mesh only with the threads of a tapped one of the bores formed in the arms, or it may also mesh with threads provided in the bore of the part located between the arms of the bifurcated portion.

Claims

1. A mount for a telescopic sight, such as a rifle scope, comprising a first component adapted to be mounted on a firearm;

a second component adapted to hold a telescopic sight and extending upwardly of said first component, said components having respective first and second portions formed with aligned bores which are dimensioned to admit of slight changes in the vertical orientation of said second component relative to said first component, one of said portions being bifurcated and having two arms provided with two parallel sets each composed of two axially aligned first bores in the respective arms, one bore of each set being tapped, the other of said portions being located between said arms and having two second bores each of which is aligned with one set of first bores, one of said second bores being tapped and the other second bore having an inner diameter which is larger than that of the aligned first bores; and

screwthreaded means provided in said bores for connecting said first and second portions rigidly with one another, said screw-threaded means comprising a first bolt meshing with the threads in said one second bore and of the aligned tapped first bore, and a second bolt extending freely with the threads of the first bore which is aligned with said other second bore, so as to prevent changes in the selected relative orientation of said second component.

2. A mount as defined in claim 1, wherein one of said bolts extends through one of said arms into the other arm, and wherein the other of said bolts extends through said other arm into said one arm.