Reflex sight adjustments

• US 9,423,212 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2015
• Issued: 08/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Leupold & Stevens Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Leupold & Stevens Incorporated
• Inventors: Campean, Daniel I.
• Primary Examiner(s): CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE
• Application Number:
  US14/596,129
• Publication Number:
  US 20150198415A1
• Time in Patent Office: 588 Days
• Field of Search: 421/37, 42/90, 421/24, 421/26, 421/13
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/02 Foresights
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/16 Adjusting mechanisms therefor; Mountings therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/18 Clicking-indicators with spring detents
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/30 Reflecting-sights specially adapted for smallarms or ordnance reflecting-sights in general G02B
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/345 for illuminating the sights
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 23/14 Viewfinders for photographic apparatus G03B13/02

Abstract

A battery compartment for a reflex sight is accessed via a pivoting lid that can be unlatched, opened, and closed by hand without tools and without removing the sight from its weapon. A button carried by the lid actuates a switch within the sight for changing a setting of the sight. Also disclosed is a reflex sight having mounting structures for accessories, such as an impact guard, a rain hood, or a rear iron sight for example. Positioning mechanisms for an LED or other aiming point display device of an aiming sight are also disclosed.

Claims

1. An aiming device, comprising:

a base having an elongate cavity formed therein;

a carriage slidably received in the elongate cavity, the carriage defining an undercut slot extending along a first axis of motion;

an aiming point display device supported on the carriage;

an elevation adjustment screw rotatably supported on the base and extending into the cavity along a second axis of motion perpendicular to the first axis of motion;

an elevation block slidably received in the undercut slot of the carriage and threaded onto the elevation adjustment screw for movement along the second axis of motion;

a sizer bearing interposed between a bottom of the undercut slot and the elevation block, the sizer bearing taking up slop between the elevation block and the undercut slot while allowing the carriage to slide along the first axis of motion relative to the elevation block; and

a windage adjustment screw rotatably supported on the base orthogonally to the elevation adjustment screw and extending into the cavity along the first axis of motion to adjust the carriage along the first axis of motion.

2. The aiming device of claim 1, further comprising at least one second sizer bearing interposed between the carriage and a wall of the elongate cavity to take up slop along a third axis perpendicular to the first and second axes of motion.

3. The aiming device of claim 1, wherein the sizer bearing is a self-lubricating plain bearing element made of a plastic material.

4. The aiming device of claim 1, further comprising a pusher block threaded onto the windage adjustment screw and pushing against the carriage to drive the carriage along the first axis of motion in response to rotation of the windage adjustment screw.

5. The aiming device of claim 1, wherein the aiming device is a reflex sight and the aiming point display device includes a miniature light emitting diode.

6. The aiming device of claim 3, wherein the plastic material is polytetrafluoroethylene.

7. The aiming device of claim 1, wherein the elevation adjustment screw includes detents in a tapered head surface, and the base includes an angled bore, the aiming device further including:

a click spring received in the angled bore; and

a click pin slidably received in the angled bore and directly abutting the tapered head of the elevation adjustment screw and the click spring.

8. The aiming device of claim 1, wherein the windage adjustment screw includes detents in a tapered head surface, and the base includes an angled bore, the aiming device further including:

a click spring received in the angled bore; and

a click pin slidably received in the angled bore and directly abutting the tapered head of the windage adjustment screw and the click spring.

9. The aiming device of claim 1, wherein the sizer bearing includes a spaced-apart pair of bearing elements.

10. The aiming device of claim 2, wherein each of the sizer bearing and the second sizer bearing includes a spaced-apart pair of bearing elements.