Camera rifle organization

• US 5,287,644 A
• Filed: 10/13/1992
• Issued: 02/22/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bruce L. Bolduc
• Original Assignee: Bruce L. Bolduc
• Inventors: Bolduc, Bruce L.
• Primary Examiner(s): JOHNSON, STEPHEN
• Application Number:
  US07/959,645
• Time in Patent Office: 497 Days
• Field of Search: 42/106, 42/101, 42/100, 42/90, 354/76, 354/79
• US Class Current: 42/106
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/17 Convertible sights, i.e. sets of two or more sights brought into the sight line optionally
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/41 Mounting periscopic sights on smallarms
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/46 for particular applications
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 29/00 Combinations of cameras, projectors or photographic printing apparatus with non-photographic non-optical apparatus, e.g. clocks or weapons; Cameras having the shape of other objects combinations with flash apparatus G03B15/03

Abstract

A camera to include mounting within a rifle simulation is provided, wherein actuation of the trigger of the rifle simulation effects actuation of the camera whose lens is oriented parallel to an associated rifle barrel. The camera is releasably mounted through the rifle simulation and optionally includes use of one of a plurality of viewing lenses mounted within a rotatably mounted disc forwardly of the camera structure.

Claims

1. A camera rifle organization, comprising,

an elongate rifle stock, the rifle stock having a rifle barrel,

and

the rifle stock having spaced side walls, a bottom wall, and a top wall spaced from the bottom wall,

and

a trigger guard mounted to the bottom wall, and a trigger pivotally mounted within the rifle stock extending into the rifle stock through the bottom wall and positioned within the trigger guard,

and

a camera receiving slot directed through the rifle stock and extending between the side walls and directed through the top wall and the bottom wall, with the camera receiving slot orthogonally oriented relative to the rifle barrel,

and

a camera mounted within the camera receiving slot,

and

actuator means in operative association with the trigger for effecting selective actuation of the camera,

and

the camera includes a camera lens oriented parallel to the rifle barrel and oriented above the top wall, and each said side wall includes a clamp plate rod slidably directed through each said side wall, and each said clamp plate rod includes a clamp plate, and each said clamp plate includes a matrix of resilient nodes extending into the camera receiving slot for clamping the camera within the camera receiving slot.

2. An organization as set forth in claim 1 wherein the rifle stock includes a plurality of lock pins, with one of said lock pins orientated in adjacency relative to each said clamp plate rod, and each said clamp plate rod includes a clamp plate rod recess arranged for receiving one of the lock pins.

3. An organization as set forth in claim 2 including a rifle stock bore directed into the rifle stock in communication with the camera receiving slot positioned above the trigger guard, and an alignment bearing mounted within the rifle stock bore, and an actuator rod slidably directed through the alignment bearing, and the camera having an actuator button in confrontation with the rifle stock bore and in alignment with the actuator rod, and the trigger having a trigger link pivotally mounted to the actuator rod, and the trigger link and the trigger pivotal about a trigger axle, with the axle positioned within the rifle stock, whereupon displacement of the trigger effects displacement of the trigger link and the actuator rod for abutment with the camera actuator button.

4. An organization as set forth in claim 3 including a viewing disc slot mounted within the rifle stock between the camera receiving slot and the rifle barrel, and a cylindrical viewing disc rotatably mounted within the disc slot, and a disc axle mounted within the disc slot rotatably mounting the viewing disc, with the disc axle oriented parallel to and below the camera lens, and the viewing disc having a cylindrical side wall, and the cylindrical side wall having a plurality of recesses, equal to a predetermined number and a spring biased detent mounted within the rifle stock in confrontation with the disc slot for reception within one of said side wall recesses, and a plurality of viewing lenses, with the viewing lenses equal to said predetermined number, and each of said viewing lenses aligned with one of said side wall recesses for alignment of said one of said viewing lenses selectively with the camera lens.