Adjustment device for optical systems

• US 8,848,287 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2011
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schmidt & Bender GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Schmidt & Bender GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Schmitt, Christoph, Kern, Stephan
• Primary Examiner(s): Harrington, Alicia M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pichler, Marin
• Application Number:
  US13/331,178
• Publication Number:
  US 20120154907A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,015 Days
• Field of Search: 359/427, 359/429, 359/700, 421/26, 421/19
• US Class Current: 359/429
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/38 Telescopic sights specially adapted for smallarms or ordnance telescopic sights in general G02B; Supports or mountings therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/40 Periscopic sights specially adapted for smallarms or ordnance periscopic sights in general G02B; Supports or mountings therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 23/14 Viewfinders for photographic apparatus G03B13/02
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 1/087 retractable; Flush control knobs

Abstract

An adjustment tower for telescopic sights includes a first adjustment device and a second adjustment device, which are capable of rotating independently of one another relative to a base. The first adjustment device can be rotated in an adjustment position and has a secured position in which it is secured against rotation. The first adjustment device is also axially movable relative to the base to a limited extent such that in the adjustment position, the adjustment device projects further out of the second adjustment device than in the secured position. The tower further includes a stored-energy device that exerts an axial force on the first adjustment device from the secured position in the direction of the adjustment position.

Claims

1. An adjustment tower for telescopic sights comprising a first adjustment wheel and a second adjustment wheel, which are mounted to a common base and are capable of rotating independently of one another relative to the common base and about a common rotational axis,

wherein the first adjustment wheel can be rotated in an adjustment position and has a secured position in which the first adjustment wheel is secured against rotation, and

wherein the first adjustment wheel is capable of moving axially relative to the common base and the second adjustment wheel to a limited extent, such that said first adjustment wheel projects farther out of the second adjustment wheel in the adjustment position than in the secured position, and

further comprising a stored-energy device that exerts an axial force on the first adjustment wheel from the secured position in the direction of the adjustment position.

2. The adjustment tower according to claim 1, further comprising coupling means that is engaged and acted upon by the axial force from the stored-energy device when the first adjustment wheel is in the secured position.

3. The adjustment tower according to claim 2, wherein the coupling means is engaged and acted upon by the axial force from the stored-energy device when the first adjustment wheel is in the adjustment position.

4. The adjustment tower according to claim 2, wherein the coupling means comprises a cam mechanism such that, when a threshold force on the first adjustment wheel is overcome counter to the axial force, followed by a release of force, the stored-energy device moves the cam mechanism to an end position, the cam mechanism being secured in the end position by the stored-energy device.

5. The adjustment tower according to claim 4, wherein the cam mechanism is configured such that when the first adjustment wheel is in the adjustment position, and when the threshold force on the first adjustment wheel is overcome counter to the axial force, followed by the release of force, the stored-energy device moves the first adjustment wheel to the secured position, the first adjustment wheel being secured in the secured position by the stored-energy device.

6. The adjustment tower according to claim 4, wherein the cam mechanism is disposed on the first adjustment wheel.

7. The adjustment tower according to claim 4, wherein the cam mechanism has a groove as the coupling means.

8. The adjustment tower according to claim 7, wherein the cam mechanism further has a transmission guide connected to a ring as the coupling means, wherein the ring is mounted on the first adjustment wheel such that the transmission guide engages in the groove and kinematically connects the ring to the first adjustment wheel, so that the ring and the first adjustment wheel are rotatable relative to one another to a limited extent and are axially displaceable relative to one another to a limited extent, and wherein the ring is mounted so as to be radially rotatable and axially fixed relative to the base.

9. The adjustment tower according to claim 1, wherein the first adjustment wheel is coupled via a guide element to a guide sleeve such that the guide sleeve is axially displaceable relative to the first adjustment wheel and is not radially rotatable, wherein the guide sleeve is mounted so as to be radially rotatable and axially fixed relative to the base.

10. The adjustment tower according to claim 1, wherein when the first adjustment wheel is in the secured position, the first adjustment wheel is engaged via arresting means with the base.

11. The adjustment tower according to claim 10, wherein the arresting means has click-stop stages.

12. The adjustment tower according to claim 10, wherein the arresting means comprises at least one slot that is open on one side in the first adjustment wheel.

13. The adjustment tower according to claim 10, wherein the arresting means is axially fixed and radially fixed on the base.

14. The adjustment tower according to claim 1, further comprising a dwell mechanism that is formed indirectly or directly between the base and the first adjustment wheel.

15. The adjustment tower according to claim 14, wherein the dwell mechanism comprises a dwell means and correlating depressions.

16. The adjustment tower of claim 15, wherein the dwell means comprises a spring-mounted ball.

17. An adjustment tower comprising a base, said base being arranged on a tubular center region of a telescopic sight, the adjustment tower projecting axially outward from the tubular center region in the direction of a rotational axis, said adjustment tower comprising a first adjustment wheel and a second adjustment wheel, which are mounted to the base and are capable of rotating independently of one another relative to the base and about the rotational axis,

wherein the first adjustment wheel can be rotated in an adjustment position and has a secured position in which the first adjustment wheel is secured against rotation, and

wherein the first adjustment wheel is capable of moving axially relative to the base and to the second adjustment wheel to a limited extent, such that said first adjustment wheel projects farther out of the second adjustment wheel in the adjustment position than in the secured position, and

further comprising a stored-energy device that exerts an axial force on the first adjustment wheel from the secured position in the direction of the adjustment position.