1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a three-in-one indoor and outdoor shooting target, and more particularly to a multi-functional shooting target that combines together a toy gun target, a blowgun target and a dartboard. Various embodiments provide a diversity of amusement, convenience, environmental protection and safety. A user can enjoy the trouble-free amusement of indoor and outdoor shooting sports through the use of the present invention.
2. Background
The sport of shooting is a leisurely activity, which provides relaxation for the body and mind, relieving stress and providing a sporting effect. However, conventional shooting targets are almost always a single target without any subordinate function; this limitation and insufficiency exists in a single function, and worse, may lead to accidental injuries from ricocheting projectiles (such as BBs).
As far as toy guns go, some users use a cardboard box filled with cloth as a homemade target. Though the shooting area of the target is wide, the volume thereof is large too; it is not convenient to carry, and projectiles (i.e., BBs) stuck in the cloth filling cannot drop such that collection of the projectiles is difficult. In addition, a projectile shot later may collide with embedded projectiles fired earlier, ricocheting or shattering before exiting the target box, which is a source of danger; the more ricochets there are, the greater the damage caused to the target paper and the greater the chance of accidents. Furthermore, a large number of ricochets are inconvenient for cleaning purposes. Moreover, the environmental hazard of ricochets extends to both indoor and outdoor shooting activities, if aluminum cans or homemade cardboard boxes are used as targets.
The effective shooting area of current common toy gun targets are too small, causing new users to be afraid of or worried about projectiles that miss the target, hit walls and ricochet to hit the new users themselves. Furthermore, the target is provided with only one single projectile blocking device, which is incapable of stopping projectiles precisely and dropping them into a projectile collecting space so that these kinds of targets are only suitable for single-shot-type low shooting speed toy guns. However, many current toy guns are provided with a fast repeating action and high projectile velocities. If a high-velocity full-automatic toy gun is employed, impact forces and mutual collisions of projectiles on a shooting plane increases rapidly, and the number and speed of ricochets out of the target space also increases. In view of this, the projectile blocking, stopping and collecting effects of a target need to be improved to allow a shooter not to worry about practicing a shooting sport.
As far as both blowgun shooting and dart throwing goes, blowgun shooting is usually performed outdoors and uses trees as targets, causing plants to be damaged, since there is currently a lack of outdoor blowgun-dedicated targets, and no suitable indoor targets for practice are available. Vice versa, dart throwing is always performed indoors with a hanging dartboard, and currently, since there is a lack of outdoor dartboards that can stand stably and withstand the forward flying impact generated from a dart after being thrown, the challenge and pleasure brought from dart throwing is limited to the indoors.
To improve the defects of the conventional structures mentioned above, the present invention is proposed.
A main objective of the present invention is to provide a three-in-one indoor and outdoor shooting target, being conveniently portable for a user, allowing the user to enjoy securely and confidently the challenge and amusement yielded from multiple shooting activities at the same time regardless of whether it is installed indoors or outdoors, while avoiding polluting of the environment.
The present invention can be more fully understood by reference to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:
First, referring to
The double-faced target plate 1 is a combined double target plate that provides a blowgun target and a dartboard respectively disposed on the front and rear faces thereof, allowing it to be used as a shooting target for both blowguns and darts; the lower side of the double-faced shooting target 1 is coupled to a lower target-plate fixing elements 12, allowing the double-faced target plate 1 to take a straight line passing through the two lower target-plate fixing elements 12 respectively disposed on two sides thereof as a rotating axis to be rotated through 180 degrees.
The deceleration projectile-stopping device 3 is a deceleration strip set 30 constituted by a plurality of strips arranged vertically, for example; a strip set fixing element 31 and a strip set fixing element 32 are respectively disposed on the upper side and the lower side thereof. The deceleration projectile-stopping device 3 may also be an impact absorber 40, or constituted by the impact absorber 40 and the deceleration strip set 30 used for operating in coordination with each other.
The target box 5 is constituted by an upper panel 51, lower panel 52, left panel 53, and right panel 54. The target box 5 further includes projectile collecting groove panel 55 and rear panel 56, and an inner space is formed among them, where the deceleration projectile-stopping device 3 can be accepted in the inner space 50 by the upper strip-set fixing element 31 of the deceleration projectile-stopping device 3, and coupled to the upper panel 51 at the upper inner side of the target box 5. Furthermore, a hanging hole 57 is used for hanging on a wall surface, and a convenient portable handle 6 is disposed on the upper side of the upper panel 51. In addition, a target sheet clip 7 for locking a target sheet 2 is disposed on the front side of the upper panel 51, and a projectile collecting groove 58 is formed by surrounding the projectile collecting groove panel 55 on the lower side of the target box 5.
The components mentioned above are assembled to form a three-in-one indoor and outdoor shooting target. When an embodiment of the present invention is put into practice, as
Referring again to
Furthermore, a projectile discharging hole 52 used for engaging with a projectile discharger 8 in an upward manner is disposed on the lower panel 52 of the target box 5. The projectile discharging hole 52 is opened or closed by rotating the projectile discharger 8, thereby conveniently and quickly letting out and recycling the projectiles collected in the projectile collecting groove 58, achieving the aim of environmental protection.
To sum up, the three-in-one indoor and outdoor shooting target of the present invention perfects the functions and safety that should be provided for a toy gun target, and the novel invention integrates a blowgun target and a dartboard, with the convenience and amusement that can be brought into full play that are otherwise hard to come by.
Additional advantages and modifications will readily occur to those skilled in the art. Therefore, the invention in its broader aspects is not limited to the specific details and representative embodiments shown and described herein. Accordingly, various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the general inventive concept as defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
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