Shooting target with reactive zones

• US 9,170,077 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Issued: 10/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Good Sportsman Marketing LLC
• Original Assignee: Birchwood Casey, LLC
• Inventors: Johnson, Scott Benjamin, Binsfeld, Todd, Northup, Nathan, Brandt, Jamie William
• Primary Examiner(s): GRAHAM, MARK S
• Application Number:
  US13/827,377
• Publication Number:
  US 20130270773A1
• Time in Patent Office: 957 Days
• Field of Search: 273/378, 273403-410
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F41J 5/24 Targets producing a particular effect when hit, e.g. detonation of pyrotechnic charge, bell ring, photograph
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1052 with cutting, punching, tearing or severing

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention include printed shooting targets having reactive zones and methods related to the same. In an embodiment, the invention includes a shooting target comprising a substrate. In some embodiments, a first ink layer can be disposed on the substrate. An adhesion modifying layer disposed over the substrate and/or on the first ink layer. The adhesion modifying layer can cover less than the entire surface area of the substrate and/or first ink layer. A second ink layer disposed on the adhesion modifying layer. In an embodiment, a method of making a shooting target comprising applying discrete segments of a material over a substrate to form an adhesion modifying layer, wherein the adhesion modifying layer covers less than the entire surface area of the substrate; and applying a second ink layer over the adhesion modifying layer. Other embodiments are also included herein.

Claims

1. A shooting target comprising:

a substrate;

a first ink layer disposed over the substrate;

an adhesion modifying layer disposed over the first ink layer;

wherein the adhesion modifying layer covers less than the entire surface area of the substrate;

the adhesion modifying layer comprising a polymeric material and a release varnish;

wherein the polymeric material and the release varnish are not coterminous in their surface area coverage forming at least one first reactive zone wherein the release varnish covers the polymeric material layer and at least one second reactive zone wherein the release varnish does not cover the polymeric material layer; and

a second ink layer disposed over the adhesion modifying layer and covering the at least one first reactive zone and the at least one second reactive zone.

2. The shooting target of claim 1, the second ink layer comprising a plurality of first and second reactive zones and non-reactive zones.

3. The shooting target of claim 1, the second ink layer covering an area equal to the entire surface of the substrate.

5. The shooting target of claim 1, the polymeric material comprising multiple die-cut discrete portions.

4. A shooting target comprising:

a substrate;

an adhesion modifying layer disposed over the substrate;

wherein the adhesion modifying layer covers less than the entire surface area of the substrate;

the adhesion modifying layer comprising a polymeric material and a release varnish;

wherein the polymeric material and the release varnish are not coterminous in their surface area coverage forming at least one first reactive zone wherein the release varnish covers the polymeric material layer and at least one second reactive zone wherein the release varnish does not cover the polymeric material layer; and

an ink layer disposed over the adhesion modifying layer.

6. A method of making a shooting target comprising

applying discrete segments of materials over a substrate to form an adhesion modifying layer, wherein applying the discrete segments includes:

applying a polymeric layer over the substrate;

die cutting the polymeric layer;

removing segments of the polymeric layer corresponding to one or more non-reactive zones; and

applying a release varnish over portions of the polymeric material;

wherein the polymeric material and the release varnish are not coterminous in their surface area coverage forming at least one first reactive zone wherein the release varnish covers the polymeric material layer and at least one second reactive zone wherein the release varnish does not cover the polymeric material layer; and

applying a second ink layer over the adhesion modifying layer.