Patents Assigned to Detroit Bullet Trap Corporation
  • Patent number: 4247115
    Abstract: A shooting booth for shooting ranges having a target located down-range of the booth, the booth being formed by a pair of spaced side walls with one of the side walls having a cantilever support barricade. The barricade is a narrow vertical panel positioned toward the end of the cantilever arms and spaced from the hinge point at the side walls to form a window between the side wall and the panel. A shelf is mounted at the side wall adjacent to the barricade, and the booth is hinged to fold around the shelf and against the side wall such that the shelf may be lowered to a horizontal position or raised to a vertical position without interference with the barricade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1981
    Assignee: Detroit Bullet Trap Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph Nikoden, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4088322
    Abstract: A target shooting range having a designated shooter position, at least one target position and a target carrier system. The carrier system includes a rail extending between the shooter position and the target position with a movable target carrier mounted on the rail for movement between those two positions. The movable target carrier has a carriage portion comprising a wheeled vehicle and a lower target holder portion depending from the carriage portion. The lower target holder portion is movable to a retracted position as the carrier is being moved from the shooter position to a target position. Bullet deflection plates are suspended from the ceiling of the range beneath the carrier rail and have the function of protecting the upper carriage portion of the carrier from being struck and gradually destroyed by bullets fired from the shooter position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1978
    Assignee: Detroit Bullet Trap Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph Nikoden, Jr.