Abstract: An illuminating bubble producing toy with an attachable inflatable balloon. The toy includes a housing with two ends, wherein the housing contains the electronic components of the toy. A bubble solution reservoir is connectable to the first end of the housing and a hollow shaft is connected to the second end. The balloon attaches around the hollow shaft. A drive shaft is fixed within the hollow shaft, with one end connected to the motor and the second end containing a wiper. A nozzle is secured within the second end of the hollow shaft and the wiper rotates around the inside of the nozzle. A tubular channel has a first end submerged within the solution reservoir and a second end connected to the nozzle. A printed circuit board is secured around a base of the hollow shaft and electrically connected to the power source and various LEDs.

Abstract: A target for skeet shooting which comprises a hub associated with a rotor that has at least two blades. The hub is associated with an elastic membrane, which in turn is associated with a valve and is designed to be inflated, in order to obtain a substantially spherical surface, before launching the target. Each blade extends longitudinally in a substantially crescent shape and has a geometric keying angle that is variable as a function of the rotation speed of the rotor about its own axis.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a transmitter unit having at least one infrared (IR) transmitter, a target screen, a plurality of photodiode sensors disposed in a spaced apart relationship about the target screen, and receiver circuitry connecting the photodiode sensors together. The transmitter unit continuously emits an IR signal, which is detected by the photodiode sensors. The receiver circuitry then triangulate the position of the transmitter unit by calculating the differential distances between each of the photodiode sensors and the transmitter unit. The receiver circuitry is able to dynamically update the position of the transmitter unit because the transmitter unit continuously emits an IR signal. The transmitter unit is able to simulate a “shot” in a number of different ways, including updating the packet update rate or altering the data packet preamble. No return signal is necessary for the transmitter unit to confirm the “shot.

Abstract: A target senses whether and where it has been struck by a laser light. The target includes a screen for allowing laser light to pass through, a plurality of light sensors behind the screen, and an optical display associated with one or more of the light sensors. When the target is struck by a laser light, a sensor records the strike, and the target may be struck with laser light multiple times, whereby different sensors may record the different strikes. To determine whether and where the target has been struck, the user activates a display mode that causes the optical displays in the target to illuminate. The user can then reset the target so the user can begin again.

Abstract: Target for helice target shooting comprising a helical body and a center piece that are snap-coupled together; the helical body comprising a cylindrical annular portion that extends according to a central axis (A) and is provided, peripherally, of at least one pair of mushroom-shaped projections so configured as to couple with the center piece in correspondence of respective peripheral seats; the annular portion having crack nucleation means suitable to facilitate the fracture, in use, by at least one shot.

Abstract: An aerial target that is reusable and recoverable after being launched, shot down or otherwise falling to the ground a body member having a saucer-shaped configuration and including a peripheral outer rim and a domed top wall extending upwardly from the outer rim, the body member including a central portion displaced from the outer rim and having a generally flat upper surface and an intermediate portion situated between the outer rim and the central portion, the intermediate portion having a domed configuration sloping downwardly from the central portion toward the outer rim. The body member includes an inner chamber substantially filled with air such that the body member is buoyant relative to water. The central portion is constructed of a hard rubber material that does not shatter after receiving an impact force and the intermediate portion is constructed of a self-healing material that reseals after being pierced by gun shot.

Abstract: Air cone flyers are aerial toys that consist of a cone for the upper surface and an annular ring or disc for their base. They have a unique three dimensional shape for their upper surface and this convexity gives the units a large amount of airfoil lift. The outer part of the thin flat rim extends radially outward past the cone's base and gives the air cone low drag and this leads to longer fights. The air cones when thrown with spin are designed to achieve straight flights by balancing out the rolls of the two component parts. The flyers can experience buoyant flights due to their light weight, their three-dimensionality, and their associated airfoil lift. The light weight, soft and compressible foam rim which has rotational inertia is easy to throw and catch and is ideal for both indoor and outdoor areas.

Abstract: A sport object actuated by a user comprises: a ball, one or more grooves configured on the exterior of the ball, at least one elastomeric base rests within at least one of the groove at a first base position and one or more appendages molded at the edge of the elastomeric base to form a first appendage position. The shape of the ball is spherical. The shape of the sport object as well as the shape of the appendage can be sized and shaped in a variety of sizes to accomplish the same result of providing a changed color or decoration on the surface of the ball manually.

Abstract: A target (1) for archery training, which is to be launched into the air and is suitable for being hit by an arrow, includes at least two mutually opposing surfaces, at least one of which forms a surface for receiving arrows, characterized in that at least one receiving surface has at least one surface relief (3a, 3b). A device for launching such a target, and a method for making such a target with surface reliefs made advantageously by hot marking are also described. Applicable to shooting at any projectile, especially in archery, and particularly when the target is mobile, for example by being launched into the air.

Abstract: A mark unit includes a holding section that is disposed at the top of a display section so that a light-emitting section is positioned on a side of a display screen of the display section and a weight section is positioned on a side opposite to the display screen to hold the light-emitting section on the side of the display screen that intersects a horizontal plane.

Abstract: A pattern testing board is able to detect an emission beam such as a laser or light beam from a shooting system. A pattern testing board includes a plurality of paired emission beam sensors and hit indicators. Each emission beam sensor is responsive to a detected emission beam and each hit indicator signals the sensing of the emission beam by the associated emission beam sensor. Multiple pattern testing boards may be mounted together to provide a larger pattern testing system array. Further, an overlay with a representation thereon, a moving image display system, or a reflective moving image display system may be positioned in front of one or more pattern testing boards. Still further, the pattern testing board may be incorporated in a unique target system that includes the pattern testing board for determining the beam pattern emitted by the beam emitter, a level selection board for selecting a level of play, and a targeting game board having a plurality of targets.

Abstract: A pattern testing board is able to detect an emission beam such as a laser or light beam from a shooting system. A pattern testing board includes a plurality of paired emission beam sensors and hit indicators. Each emission beam sensor is responsive to a detected emission beam and each hit indicator signals the sensing of the emission beam by the associated emission beam sensor. Multiple pattern testing boards may be mounted together to provide a larger pattern testing system array. Further, an overlay with a representation thereon, a moving image display system, or a reflective moving image display system may be positioned in front of one or more pattern testing boards. Still further, the pattern testing board may be incorporated in a unique target system that includes the pattern testing board for determining the beam pattern emitted by the beam emitter, a level selection board for selecting a level of play; and a targeting game board having a plurality of targets.

Abstract: A pattern testing board is able to detect an emission beam such as a laser or light beam from a shooting system. A pattern testing board includes a plurality of paired emission beam sensors and hit indicators. Each emission beam sensor is responsive to a detected emission beam and each hit indicator signals the sensing of the emission beam by the associated emission beam sensor. Multiple pattern testing boards may be mounted together to provide a larger pattern testing system array. Further, an overlay with a representation thereon, a moving image display system, or a reflective moving image display system may be positioned in front of one or more pattern testing boards. Still further, the pattern testing board may be incorporated in a unique target system that includes the pattern testing board for determining the beam pattern emitted by the beam emitter, a level selection board for selecting a level of play; and a targeting game board having a plurality of targets.

Abstract: A system for simulating shooting sports includes a non-projectile ammunition transmitter system that is retrofittable to any standard firearm having an ammunition chamber, a barrel, and a firing pin and a self-contained receiver system. The transmitter system includes an actuating beam cartridge and an adjustable beam choke. The beam cartridge includes a first actuating beam emitter responsive to the firing pin. The beam choke includes a second emission beam emitter responsive to the first actuating beam. The receiver system is a self-contained reusable target having beam sensors and hit indicators. The beam sensors are “triggered” when the emission beam “hits” or is “sensed by” the beam sensors. When the beam sensors sense the emission beam, they cause the hit indicators to indicate that the target has been “hit” by the emission beam.

Abstract: A system for simulating shooting sports includes a non-projectile ammunition transmitter system that is retrofittable to any standard firearm having an ammunition chamber, a barrel, and a firing pin and a self-contained receiver system. The transmitter system includes an actuating beam cartridge and an adjustable beam choke. The beam cartridge includes a first actuating beam emitter responsive to the firing pin. The beam choke includes a second emission beam emitter responsive to the first actuating beam. The receiver system is a self-contained reusable target having beam sensors and hit indicators. The beam sensors are "triggered" when the emission beam "hits" or is "sensed by" the beam sensors. When the beam sensors sense the emission beam, they cause the hit indicators to indicate that the target has been "hit" by the emission beam. The target may also include at least one triggering motion detector that detects a triggering motion that is associated with the target being launched into the air.

Abstract: A system for simulating shooting sports includes a non-projectile ammunition transmitter system that is retrofittable to any standard firearm having an ammunition chamber, a barrel, and a firing pin and a self-contained receiver system. The transmitter system includes an actuating beam cartridge and an adjustable beam choke. The beam cartridge includes a first actuating beam emitter responsive to the firing pin. The beam choke includes a second emission beam emitter responsive to the first actuating beam. The receiver system is a self-contained reusable target having beam sensors and hit indicators. The beam sensors are "triggered" when the emission beam "hits" or is "sensed by" the beam sensors. When the beam sensors sense the emission beam, they cause the hit indicators to indicate that the target has been "hit" by the emission beam. The target may also include at least one triggering motion detector that detects a triggering motion that is associated with the target being launched into the air.

Abstract: A six sided double walled container housing having an open top and holding within the confines of those walls the canopy and lines of a parasail device therein and by four flexable fingers extending partly over the contents from the top perimeter of the four rigid foam perpendicular inner walls whose bonded exterior covering is a soft impact absorbing plastic foam material.Target housing has a front and rear configuration showing a downwardly and rearwardly sloped triangular shaped front panel having a vent through which a stream of air enters to cause ejection of the parasail canopy which will support the target housing in flight. Base of the sloped triangular shaped front panel joins the matching perimeter of the bottom panel of the target housing to form an aerodynamic lift surface and the adjoining four perpendicular panel's matching perimeters joined to each other's matching perimeters are then joined to the matching perimeters of the bottom panel and those of the sloped triangular shaped front panel.

Abstract: A flying target is provided which utilizes a conventional target disc made of a material which is readily broken when struck in flight by pellets, a marker assembly for marking the location where the target disc is broken and a retainer assembly for securing the marker assembly to the target disc until the target is broken by one or more pellets. The marker assembly includes a marker disc to which two ribbons are attached, each ribbon being provided with a weight and one of the ribbons having a second weight attached to it by a string. The folded ribbons are held between the target disc and marker disc, which is held to the target disc by the retainer assembly. The retainer assembly includes a film which covers the marker disc and is attached to the target disc.

Abstract: A device adaptable to inexpensive models to operate either in a mode of being attacked or an attack mode that permits sequential shooting of energy within a predetermined angle profile and, within range limits, the receipt of such energy whereupon visual indication of a successful attack can be indicated.

Abstract: An improved target pigeon for simulating the erratic and unpredictable flight of a flushed bird for target shooting which includes a wing member and a detachable cap member. The wing member is provided with blanked out tabs and the cap member is dome shaped and formed of relative thin material wherein the spacing between tabs and the outer diameter of the cap member is such that the cap member is maintained to the wing member under compression and which cap member is provided with a notched flange portion for accommodating the tabs to prohibit relative rotation therebetween and resulting spin off during a launching operation; and which cap member is rendered readily detachable upon a hit when shot at.

Abstract: A target pigeon has a base part comprising a generally flat web formed at a web axis with a central throughgoing hole and having a pair of diametrically opposite ends on which are mounted diametrically opposite vanes that are tipped propeller-fashion to each other. A pair of diametrically opposite holding tabs are provided on the ends of the webs and directed generally axially and tipped inwardly toward each other. The entire web has a relatively great mass, normally in excess of 40 g. A cup-shaped witness cap having a relatively small mass in the neighborhood of approximately 4 g. has an axially directed and substantially circular annular rim that is centered on the cap axis and is formed with a pair of diametrically opposite lips in turn each formed with an outwardly open notch. This rim is engageable with the ends of the web inwardly of the tabs with the tabs fitting in the notches. Arcuate sections of the cap are exposed to either sides of the relatively narrow ringless web.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mechanism for providing air-supported floating lightballs as moving targets in shooting galleries in which the height of the lightballs is constantly changed by varying the current passing through associated air pumps that produce air jets for lifting the lightballs in the air by changing the resistance of the current path by means of a rotating rheostat disc, thereby providing the lightballs with an unpredictable and capricious nature.

Abstract: A target pigeon has a generally flat web formed entirely of sheet metal with a central throughgoing hole at a web axis and having a pair of diametrically opposite web ends from each of which extends a sheet-metal vane which is tipped propeller-fashion relative to the other vane. In addition each of the web ends has a respective substantially straight, axially projecting, and outwardly tipped sheet-metal tab of V-section. A cup-shaped witness cap entirely of sheet metal is fittable to this web and has a circular rim centered on a cap axis and having a pair of diametrically opposite and radially outwardly extending lips each of which is formed with a respective throughgoing aperture through which the tabs project to hold the cap releasably in place on the web.

Abstract: A target pigeon is made of high-impact material, formed with a ring-shaped hub spanned by a cross-member and a circular wall having a convex outer face and provided with a level bottom edge and with an uneven top edge. The maximum height of this wall coincides with the location at which the hub is connected with two flying wings of the propeller-type, from which location the wall height diminishes circumferentially. A cap is detachably connected to the upper edge of the hub. The cap has a cylindrical skirt the lower edge of which follows the uneven pattern of the top edge of said hub. Ties may be provided between the hub and the cap in order to allow for the detachment of the cap from the hub, when a shot strikes the cap, but suitable to prevent their complete separation. The cap is connected to the hub by means of at least two legs carried by the cap and a corresponding number of slots formed in the hub, easy-disconnection contact surfaces being provided therebetween.

Abstract: A remotely-perceptible, impact-indicating target for a projectile, such as a bullet or the like, constructed so as to remotely perceptibly indicate, to a target shooter at a projectile shooting location, the impact of a shot or fired projectile or bullet on a remotely located target in a manner clearly visibly perceptibly indicating not only the hit, but the impact location of the projectile or bullet on the target, by causing the effective expansion in an explosion-simulating manner of a quantity of visibly perceptible target material.

Abstract: A target pigeon for use in an autoloading target-pigeon launcher has a generally flat and circular ring centered on a ring axis and having a continuous and uninterrupted circular inner periphery defining a circular open space, a substantially circular outer periphery, and a pair of opposite axial faces. Two diametrically opposite formations are provided on one of the face of the ring and are each formed with a radially inwardly open notch spaced from the inner periphery. Furthermore an axially projecting circular and continuous ridge is formed on the one face of the ring spaced between and from the inner periphery and the formations and formed away from the one face with the chamfer and at the formations with radially outwardly open cutouts. A pair of diametrically opposite vanes is provided on the rings at the holding formations, tipped propeller-fashion relative to each other.

Abstract: A target pigeon has a body part in turn having a generally flat web formed with a central throughgoing hole and a pair of offset drive holes, and a pair of vanes extending diametrically opposite each other propeller-fashion from the ends of the web. Outwardly open recesses on circularly arcuate ridges on the ends of the webs receive inwardly projective teeth on the lower edge of a cup-shaped and axially symmetrical witness cap. The sides of the witness cap are fully exposed to both sides of the web.