No. 893,836. PATENTED JULY 21, 1908.

S. OZAPSKI. '
ORDNANOE BORE SIGHTING TELESCOPE.
APPLICATION FILED OGT.2,1906.
 En sTATEs PATENT g-OFFlCE.
. SIEGFRIED 'czAP'sxI, or .TENA, GERMANY, vassitiuon TO THE FIRM or CARL ZEISS, or {TE-NA,
' . ' c I GERMANY. j ._ b

onnnniicn-nonn / sre-nrme-rnnnscorn.
no. ceases. \ Speci?cationof Letters Patent. I _ Patented my 21, 190's.
' ;_App1i0ation ?led/October 2, 1906. serial No. 837,180. _

To all {sham it may concern: / . minute angular displacement of the bore tele
Be it known that "I, SIEGFRIED OZAPSKI, scope represents a coarse error as regards the _'
doctor of philosophy, a citizen of the German direction of its line of sight.
- Empire, and residing at Oarl-Zeiss strasse, Modifying the usual arrangement, so that
Jena, inthe, Grand Duchyof Saxe-Weimar, the speci?ed coincidence takes e?ect auto_
matically withv adequate accuracy and needs
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Germany, have invented a new and useful
no longer to be tested each time before use, is
Ordnance-Bore Sighting-Telescope, of which the
the following, is a s eci?cation. ,'
pur ose of the present invention. With
The invention re ates to optical appliances this
into
en in view, the insertion piece is divided
two separate portions, of which one por
to be insertedlinto the bore of guns. - 65
10
Testing the adjustment of the gun sighting tion
only
is fitted into the muzzle of the gun and
carries an objective-system, whose focal
device, telescopic or ordinar , that 1s, in
vestigating whether the line 0 aim in its zero length is ap roximately e ual to the length -
positlon be parallel to the axis ofthe bore of the barre , while the ot er portion of the
(that is, whether both be directed upon the insertion piece occupies the former position 70
15 in the breech but is only provided with the
same far distant point) has hitherto ordi
narily been carried out in the following man ocular and the cross wires or other mark for
ner. An ordinary sighting telescope is set in sighting. '-Since in this arrangement the
the middle vof an insertion piece, which ?ts two omts, by which the line'of sight is de
termined, namely the back _'nodal oint of
20 into the breech of the gun and this insertion the objective system and the mid e point
_ piece is placed in position. In correct ad
ustment of this bore sightin telescope, its of the mark for sighting, lie separated by thev
line of sight coincides with t e axis of the length of the barrel, the relative position of
bore; The bore sighting telescope can then the line of sight ,tothe barrel can no. longer
25 be employed in testing the adjustment of the be perceptiblythein?uenced, in successive adap 80
unavoidable small angular _,
sighting device. This is done by directing tations, by
the gun, until a very distant point lies in the diiferences between successive positions of I
line of sight of the bore telescope, and there the two portions of the insertion piece.
after examining, whether this oint lies also In the .annexed drawing: Figure 1 is a lon
30 in the line of aim of the gun, w 'enthe sight~, gitudinal vertical section through a gun bar 85
ing device of the latter is set to zero. A bore , rel e uipped with a telescopic sighting device
' sighting arrangement as'described must be and t e improved gun bore sighting arrange
tested each time before use, b -' inserting a ment. Fig. 2 is a front view on an enlarged
frame with cross-wires or the ike into the scale of a cross-lined lano-parallel glass
35 muzzle ofthe gun and focusing the telesco e_ plate comprised in the said arrangement. 90'
' ' thereupon, to see whether its line 'of sig t
The objective system a is inserted into the _
passes through the middle point of the muzzle muzzle. Its axis coincides with the axis of
.or whether the telesco e- should bev re-ad the bore. The terrestrial ocular system 1),
> justed to causeits line '0 sight to do so. The I
consisting of 'an astronomical ocular b1 .and
zero'position of the line of aim could not an erecting. prism b2, is inserted with its 95
otherwise be determined with the necessary elongated mount into the cartridge chamber. .
high accuracy. With careful construction In the focal plane of the objective, between.
of the bore sighting telescope the relative p0 the astronomical ocplar and the prism sys
Qsition of the line of sight to the telescope cas tem, cross lines are A rovided on a plano-par- .
allel glass plate If, t eir point of intersection 106
545' ing'will 'not- readily undergo displacement,v lying on the common axis of the bore and the
the _ relative position of the
'- but, in general, .
,- .ptele'sco e casing to the insertion piece and objective in the focal point indicated in Fig.
1 by convergin rays. The telescopic sight
'articu arl that-of the insertion p1ece to the ing device 0 oft e gun is placed on the top of
~ ' arrel of th e gun. does not in' each renewed.
a curved bar shown as adjusted in' the zero po 105
adaptation of. the appliance coincide su?i sition,
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ciently exactly'with that in which the s1 ht in which the line of aim should be par
in telescope was originally adjusted. his gunallel is
to directed
the axis of
tothe
some
bore.
far _,_To_test
distant point,
this, the
so 5
' be understood from the facts, that'the d1
that the image of this point coincidesv with the ~
mensions both of the telescope and the inser
tion. piece are comparativey small and a center of the cross lines 'on plate I). If then 11(
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in the sighting device 0 the image of the same and a breech portion, the muzzle ortion car'
point does not likewise coincide with the cen rying an objective system, the ocal length
ter of the sigh ting mark, such coincidence may of vwhich is a proximately e ual to the length
be effected by means of the adjusting screws of the barrel? and the breec ortion carry
5 c1 which control'the position of the sighting ing an ocular system with a mar ' for sighting. 1 5
mark. '
I claim: . c ' SIEGFRIED OZAPSKI.
An optical appliance adapted vto be in Witnesses: -
serted into the bore of a gun and consisting PAUL Kn?GER,
'10 of two separate portions, a muzzle portion FRITZ SANDER.