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A moveable target assembly includes a self-propelled carriage upon which a target is mounted for rolling movement across terrain. Axially flexible track sections are coupled together in an end to end fashion so as to define a prescribed course or path which the target will follow. The track defines

A moveable target assembly includes a self-propelled carriage upon which a target is mounted for rolling movement across terrain. Axially flexible track sections are coupled together in an end to end fashion so as to define a prescribed course or path which the target will follow. The track defines a substantially planar surface and is relatively thin so that it lies flat on the surface of the terrain and thus does not present an impediment to other vehicles, infantry troops or the like that desire to traverse it. However, as the carriage is propelled along the course defined by the track, a track guide will cause successive portions of the flexible track to be initially upwardly displaced so as to perform its guiding functions yet such portions will be returned to their terrain-engaging relationship once the carriage has advanced.

대표청구항 ▼

A moveable target system comprising: target means for aiding in marksmanship practice including a frame, a target fixed to said frame, front and rear pairs of wheels journalled to said frame for supporting said target above the terrain surface for rolling movement thereacross, and power means for dr

A moveable target system comprising: target means for aiding in marksmanship practice including a frame, a target fixed to said frame, front and rear pairs of wheels journalled to said frame for supporting said target above the terrain surface for rolling movement thereacross, and power means for driving said front or rear pairs of wheels to rollingly propel said frame over said terrain surface; track means for establishing a prescribed course of movement for said target means, said track means including plural elongated flexible track members connected in an end to end manner to establish said course, each of said members defining substantially planar upper and lower surfaces and being flexibly displaceable along said prescribed course between (a) a terrain-engaging position wherein said lower surface of said track means is engaged with said terrain and (b) a displaced position wherein said lower surface is vertically spaced above the terrain surface; and connecting means fixed to and carried with said frame and defining a cavity vertically spaced above said terrain at a position substantially corresponding to said displaced position of said track means, said cavity for slidably receiving said track means, said conncting means for sequentially flexibly displacing said successive portions of said segments from said terrain-engaging position to said displaced position as said target means is propelled along said prescribed course and for permiting the sequential return of said successive portions from said displaced position to said terrain-engaging position, wherein said track means is flexibly displaced into said displaced position only in the vicinity of said connecting means; and wherein said track means includes plural anchor means axially separated from one another along said prescribed course for anchoring said track means to the terrain and yet permitting said portions of said track means to be upwardly flexibly displaced to said displaced position above said terrain surface.