Abstract: An aiming device includes a set of lenses disposed along an optical path, the set of lenses including an objective lens and an ocular lens. A reflective element is disposed on the optical path between the objective lens and the ocular lens. An addressable display is located off the optical path and projects an image to the reflective element. The image is viewable through the ocular lens and is an aiming element superimposed on a field of view.

Abstract: An optical device includes a housing containing a plurality of lenses. At least one of those lenses includes a reticle. An optical device and a processor are also located in the housing. A wind speed sensor is mounted to the housing and configured to send a wind speed signal corresponding to a wind speed to the processor. The processor calculates a wind speed based at least in part on the wind speed signal, and wherein the processor sends an output signal corresponding to the calculated wind speed to the output device.

Abstract: An optical device includes a housing containing a plurality of lenses. At least one of those lenses includes a reticle. An optical device and a processor are also located in the housing. A wind speed sensor is mounted to the housing and configured to send a wind speed signal corresponding to a wind speed to the processor. The processor calculates a wind speed based at least in part on the wind speed signal, and wherein the processor sends an output signal corresponding to the calculated wind speed to the output device.

Abstract: An aiming device includes a set of lenses disposed along an optical path, the set of lenses including an objective lens and an ocular lens. A reflective element is disposed on the optical path between the objective lens and the ocular lens. An addressable display is located off the optical path and projects an image to the reflective element. The image is viewable through the ocular lens and is an aiming element superimposed on a field of view.

Abstract: A sighting system for visually acquiring a target includes an optic device having a transmissive LED array affixed thereon. The transmissive LED array includes two or more LED elements that are separately addressable to provide an aiming point. In embodiments, the sighting system receives information from an input system, such as ammunition information or environmental information, executes a ballistics program to determine ballistics information using the received information, and determines a range to the target. A controller calculates an aiming point using the ballistics information and the target range. The controller then addresses or energizes one of the LED elements to provide the aiming point.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a mounting assembly for mounting a reticle type sight on a long gun. The mounting assembly includes a mounting plate for securing the mounting assembly to a rearward portion of a long gun, and a mounting block coupled to a top portion of the mounting plate. The mounting plate has one or more connection elements to enable a reticle type sight to be coupled to the mounting block.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a mounting assembly for mounting a reticle type sight on a long gun. The mounting assembly includes a mounting plate for securing the mounting assembly to a rearward portion of a long gun, and a mounting block coupled to a top portion of the mounting plate. The mounting plate has one or more connection elements to enable a reticle type sight to be coupled to the mounting block.

Abstract: A synthetic erector lens mount for use in a rifle scope or similar optical instrument incorporating glides, or rails, which ride on the inner surface of the guide tube. Biasing fingers, or tabs, incorporate raised bulges, or angle radially outward from the body of the mount, or both, so that they push outward on the walls of the guide tube, pushing the mount against the glides. Preferably the mount incorporates a recess on the inner wall of the mount for capturing a nut or other fastener, a hole through the wall of the mount, and a flattened area of the outer surface of the mount, parallel to the recess and aligned with the hole, for removably attaching a guide sleeve which engages the slots in the guide tube and cam tube for adjustment of the erector lens.

Abstract: A scope tube adjusting and locking device for adjusting the elevation and windage of sighting scope is comprised of a first adjusting means, a second adjusting means, a plurality of bias means, and a plurality of inner tube adjusting means. The adjusting means rotatably encompass the scope outer tube and have a bias means channel eccentrically formed therein. The plurality of bias means contact and track the base of the bias means channels and are rotatably cradled by the plurality of inner tube adjusting means which are laterally and movably disposed through the scope outer tube and which contact the inner guide tube. As the adjusting means are rotated around the scope outer tube, the plurality of inner tube adjusting means adjusts the elevation and windage of the inner guide tube. A locking means threadedly encompasses the scope outer tube and can be rotated to lock or unlock the adjusting means.

Abstract: A positive-aligning quick mount for mounting a sighting scope on a firearm is comprised of a base removably attached to the receiver of a firearm, lower securing means removably attached to the base and upper securing means removably attached to the lower securing means. The upper securing means and the lower securing means encompass and secure a prior art sighting scope in the positive-aligning quick mount. An engaging means is pivotally attached to a side of the lower securing means in an engaging means receptacle, the engaging means and the lower securing means removably engaging the base. The lower securing means is quickly and securely locked on the base and quickly unlocked from the base by rotatable locking means.

Abstract: A telescope inner tube locking device and method for positively locking the telescope inner tube in it's previously aligned position. The locking is accomplished by using a biased locking screw which operates to apply a force against the inner tube of the telescope while the windage and elevation adjustment screws on the telescope are moved. Thereafter, the biased locking screw locks the inner tube against the windage and elevation adjustment screws. In a modification of the preferred embodiment, the inner tube of the telescope may also be locked by using a locking screw constructed similarly to the elevation or windage screws in combination with a separate spring bias. The separate spring bias will apply a force against the windage and elevation screws of the telescope and the locking screw will lock the inner tube in place. The tube may also be locked by a third locking screw without using a bias.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improvements in a power rifle scope of the type having a tubular housing barrel with enlarged end portions and an optical axis defined by an optical system including an objective lens disposed in the enlarged front end thereof, an eyepiece lens system disposed in the enlarged other end thereof and an erector lens system intermediate the said two ends and where the improvement comprises the addition of a variable optical aperture mounted in and carried by a cylindrical guide tube which is secured interiorly of the scope barrel, a helically rotatable setting ring carried by and disposed exteriorly of the barrel and having an inwardly radially directed actuating pin which passes through the barrel and through a circumferential slot in the guide tube and operatively engages the variable aperture device to vary the light passing capacity of the barrel in response to rotation of the setting ring and sealing rings disposed between the setting ring and the barrel, for and aft of the a

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved laterally-adjustable ring-type riflescope mount for attachment to rifle barrel receivers of the type having a one part of a dovetail connection atop thereof defined by a planar top surface alongside of which lie a spaced parallel pair of upwardly-divergent longitudinally extending groove walls, said mount being characterized by a base having a planar bottom wall adapted to rest upon the top surface of the receiver in supported relation, a pair of sidewalls, a pair of upwardly and inwardly-convergent internally-threaded sockets in the sidewalls each having the axis thereof perpendicular to their respective upwardly-divergent dovetail groove walls, and a pair of large-headed screws screwed into the sockets with the heads thereof overlapping the upwardly-divergent groove wall lying in opposed relation thereto, these screws cooperating with one another when screwed in tight against the divergent dovetail groove walls to hold the base down snugly atop the receiver, and these s

Abstract: This invention relates to a variable-power riflescope equipped with a novel range-compensating reticle system characterized by separating the horizontally-disposed element thereof from the vertically-disposed one, locating the former in the forward focal plane displaced off the optical axis and locating the latter in the rear focal plane while, at the same time, displacing the aiming point carried by the latter off the optical axis also. The resulting reticle system functions in cooperation with the means for varying the degree of image magnification in such a way that the shooter is enabled to precisely define two ranges, one near and one far, and shoot quite accurately at any distance therebetween. A further refined version of the same system allows the shooter to actually determine the range to a chosen target of known dimension an unknown distance away and in so doing automatically adjust the aiming point defined by the reticle system to coincide with the point of impact of the bullet.