EP2141440B1 - Ensemble de chargement de balle pour arme de jeu - Google Patents

Ensemble de chargement de balle pour arme de jeu Download PDF

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EP2141440B1
EP2141440B1 EP08012172A EP08012172A EP2141440B1 EP 2141440 B1 EP2141440 B1 EP 2141440B1 EP 08012172 A EP08012172 A EP 08012172A EP 08012172 A EP08012172 A EP 08012172A EP 2141440 B1 EP2141440 B1 EP 2141440B1
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Hai-Lung Huang
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Kien Well Toy Industrial Co Ltd
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41B—WEAPONS FOR PROJECTING MISSILES WITHOUT USE OF EXPLOSIVE OR COMBUSTIBLE PROPELLANT CHARGE; WEAPONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F41B11/00—Compressed-gas guns, e.g. air guns; Steam guns
    • F41B11/50—Magazines for compressed-gas guns; Arrangements for feeding or loading projectiles from magazines
    • F41B11/55—Magazines for compressed-gas guns; Arrangements for feeding or loading projectiles from magazines the projectiles being stored in stacked order in a removable box magazine, rack or tubular magazine

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  • the present invention relates to a loading assembly, and more particularly to a bullet-loading assembly for a toy gun that has a bullet chamber and controls a single ball bullet to be loaded into the bullet chamber.
  • the bullet-loading assembly prevents more than one ball bullet from being inadvertently loaded into the bullet chamber.
  • a conventional toy gun has a handgrip, a barrel, a trigger, a handgrip, a bolt, a hammer and a loading assembly and may be loaded with ball bullets (BBs) and installed with a high pressure air bottle.
  • BBs ball bullets
  • a player triggers the toy gun
  • the hammer is activated to pivot backwards and then forwards to hit and push the bolt.
  • high pressure air in the air bottle flows rapidly into the bolt and impacts one BB in front of the bolt to jet the BB through the barrel out of the toy gun.
  • the loading assembly is mounted in the handgrip adjacent to the barrel and has a controlling element and a spring.
  • the controlling element is movable in response to the hammer, controls the feeding of the BBs and allows only one BB to pass into and stay in the barrel for firing the toy gun.
  • the spring biases the controlling element to press against one BB and provide the resilient force to recover the controlling element back to its original position after the toy gun is trigger.
  • the toy gun After using the toy gun frequently and repeatedly, the spring is fatigued and cannot timely recover the position of the controlling element, which causes more than two BBs inadvertently loaded into the barrel. When triggered with BBs, the toy gun may be jammed and damaged.
  • DE 103 54 518 A1 discloses another conventional toy gun having a bullet-loading device.
  • the present invention provides a bullet-loading assembly for a toy gun to mitigate or obviate the aforementioned problems.
  • the main objective of the invention is to provide a bullet-loading assembly for a toy gun that has a bullet chamber and controls a single ball bullet to be loaded into the bullet chamber every time after the toy gun is triggered.
  • the bullet-loading assembly prevents more than one ball bullet from being inadvertently loaded into the bullet chamber.
  • a bullet-loading assembly in accordance with the present invention is mounted on a toy gun.
  • the toy gun has a body and a triggering assembly.
  • the body has a handgrip, an outer chamber, a seal, a bullet chamber, a guiding slot and a bottle chamber.
  • the triggering assembly has a bolt, a trigger, a hammer, a linking bar and a link.
  • the bullet-loading assembly has a barrel, a bullet passageway, a magazine and a limiting member.
  • the barrel is mounted on the body and has a rear end and a bore.
  • the bullet passageway is defined through the handgrip and is located adjacent to the barrel.
  • the limiting member is mounted securely around the barrel and has a limit formed located in front of the axis of the bullet passageway and presses against an uppermost ball bullet in the bullet passageway to prevent more than one ball bullet from entering the bullet chamber.
  • a bullet-loading assembly in accordance with the present invention is mounted in a toy gun.
  • the toy gun may accommodate an air bottle (5) and ball bullets (BBs).
  • the air bottle (5) has high-pressure air and an outlet valve.
  • the toy gun has a body (1) and a triggering assembly (2).
  • the body (1) has a handgrip (10), an outer chamber (12), a seal (13), a bullet chamber (11), a guiding slot (14), a bottle chamber (16) and a discharge member (17).
  • the handgrip (10) is mounted on the body (1).
  • the outer chamber (12) is defined in the body (1) above the handgrip (10).
  • the seal (13) is mounted in the outer chamber (12).
  • the bullet chamber (11) is defined in the body (1) in front of the outer chamber (12).
  • the guiding slot (14) is defined in the body (1) above the bullet chamber (11).
  • the bottle chamber (16) is defined in the handgrip (10A) and communicates with the outer chamber (12) and may receive the air bottle.
  • the discharge member (17) is mounted in the bottle chamber (16) and may pressing against the outlet valve on the air bottle to discharge high-pressure air in the air bottle into the outer chamber (12).
  • the triggering assembly (2) is mounted in the body (1) and has a bolt (20), a trigger (21), a hammer (24), a linking bar (23) and a link (22).
  • the bolt (20) is mounted slidably in the outer chamber (12), selectively abuts the seal (13) hermetically, selectively communicates with the outer chamber (12) and has a front end, a rear end, an channel (201) and two air passages (202).
  • the channel (201) is defined axially in the front end of the bolt (20), communicates with the bullet chamber (11) and selectively communicates with the outer chamber (12).
  • the air passages (202) are defined transversely through the bolt (20), communicate with the channel (201) and are selectively sealed by the seal (13) to hermetically isolate the channel (201) from the outer chamber (12).
  • the air passages (202) are unsealed and the channel (201) communicates with the outer chamber (12) to allow high-pressure air in the air bottle (5) to pass into the channel (201).
  • the trigger (21) is mounted pivotally in the body (1) and has a connecting end and a recoiling element.
  • the recoiling is mounted on the body (1) and biases the trigger in an un-pulled position and may be a torsion spring.
  • the hammer (24) is mounted pivotally on the body (1) and selectively hits the rear end of the bolt (20) to move the bolt (20) forwards.
  • the linking bar (23) connects pivotally to the trigger (21) and the hammer (24) so that the hammer pivots backwards and then pivots fast forwards to hit the bolt (20) when the trigger (21) is pulled to pivot backwards.
  • the link (22) is Y-shaped, is mounted pivotally in the body (1) and has a lower connecting section (220), two opposite upper prongs (221) and two slide pivots (222).
  • the lower connection section (220) connects pivotally to the connecting end of the trigger (21) so that pulling the trigger (21) pivots the lower connection section (220) forwards.
  • the upper prongs (221) are formed on and protrude longitudinally form the lower connection section (220) and pivots backwards when the lower connection section (220) pivots forwards.
  • the slide pivots (222) are formed respectively on and protrudes transversely inwards from the prongs (221).
  • the bullet-loading assembly in accordance with the present invention is mounted in the body (1) and has a barrel (1A), a bullet passageway (15), a magazine (31) and a limiting member (30).
  • the barrel (1A) is mounted on the body (1) in front of the bullet chamber (11), is aligned with and in front of the bolt (20) and has a rear end and a bore.
  • the bore is defined axially through the barrel (1A), communicates with the bullet chamber (11).
  • the bullet passageway (15) is defined through the handgrip (10A), is located adjacent to the barrel (1A), communicates with the bore of the barrel (1A) and has an axis (C).
  • the magazine (31) is mounted detachably in the handgrip (10) has a base (310), a follower (311) and a spring (312).
  • the base (310) is mounted detachably on the handgrip (10) and extends in the bullet passageway (15).
  • the follower (311) is mounted slidably in the bullet passageway (15) above the base (310) and presses against the BBs (4) to set the uppermost BB (4) into the bullet chamber (15) of the body (1).
  • the spring (312) is mounted between the base (310) and the follower (311) to bias the follower (311) towards the bullet chamber (15).
  • the limiting member (30) is mounted securely around the barrel (1A) and has a bracket, a bar (303) and a limit (301).
  • the bracket is mounted securely around the barrel (1A) and has two opposite sides, two pivot slots (305) and two C-clasps (306).
  • the pivot slots (305) are defined in the sides of the bracket and pivotally engage respectively with the pivots (222) on the prongs (221) of the link (22) so that the trigger (21) drives the barrel (1A) and the limiting member (30) to move backwards through the link (22).
  • the C-clasps (306) are mounted securely around the barrel (1A) and locates the bracket between the C-clasp (306) to prevent the bracket from slipping on the barrel (1A).
  • the bar (303) is longitudinal, is formed on and protrudes backwards from the bracket, is capable of sliding linearly in the guiding slot (14) in the body (1) and has a rear end.
  • the limit (301) is formed on the rear end of the bar (303), projects out from the rear end of the barrel (1A), is located in front of the axis (C) of the bullet passageway (15) and presses against the uppermost BB (4).
  • the limit (301) has a limiting surface (302, 302a, 302b).
  • the limiting surface (302) is defined on the limit (301), faces obliquely downward to the bullet passageway (15) and presses against and set the uppermost BB (4) in the bullet chamber (11) to prevent from BBs (4) from inadvertently passing to the bullet chamber (11).
  • a first variant of the limiting surface (302) is fat.
  • a second variant of the limiting surface (302a) is concave.
  • a third variant of the limiting surface (302c) is convex.
  • the barrel (1A) and the limiting member (30) moves back.
  • the rear end of the barrel (1A) engages with the front end of the bolt (20) and receives the uppermost BB (4).
  • the hammer (24) is driven by the trigger (21) through the link bar (23) to knock bolt (20) away from the seal (13) so that the air passages (202) are unsealed.
  • the outer chamber (12) communicates with the channel (201) in the bolt (20) so that the high-pressure air in the air bottle (5) flow fast through the outer chamber (12), the air passages (13) into the channel (201) to jet the uppermost BB (4) out of the toy gun.
  • the recoiling element biases the trigger (21) backwards to the un-pulled position.
  • the limiting member (30) of the bullet-loading assembly controls the uppermost BB (4) to be loaded into the bullet chamber (11) and prevents other BBs (4) from being loaded inadvertently into the bullet chamber (11). Therefore, toy gun are loaded precisely with the BBs (4) without being jammed or damaged.

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  1. Ensemble de chargement de balle adapté pour être monté sur une arme de jeu, l'arme de jeu comportant un corps (1) et un ensemble de déclenchement (2), le corps (1) présentant une poignée (10), une chambre externe (12), un joint (13), une chambre de balle (11), une fente de guidage (14) et une chambre de bouteille (16), et l'ensemble de déclenchement (2) ayant un boulon (20), une détente (21), un marteau (24), une barre de liaison (23) et une liaison (22) reliée de façon pivotante à la détente (21) et ayant deux dents (221) et deux pivots (222), dans lequel l'ensemble de chargement de balle comprend :
    un canon (1A) adapté pour être monté sur le corps (1) devant la chambre de balle (11), un passage de balle (15) adapté pour être défini à travers la poignée (10A), un magasin (31) adapté pour être monté de façon détachable dans la poignée (10),
    dans lequel
    le canon (1A) est adapté pour être aligné sur le boulon (20) et devant celui-ci, est mobile entre une position avant et une position arrière et comprend une extrémité arrière et une âme définie axialement à travers le canon (1A) et adaptée pour communiquer avec la chambre de balle (11) ; le passage de balle (15) est situé de manière adjacente au canon (1A), communique avec l'âme du canon (1A) et comprend un axe ;
    le magasin (31) comprend
    une base (310) adaptée pour être montée de façon détachable sur la poignée (10) ;
    un suiveur (311) monté de façon coulissante dans le passage de balle (15) au-dessus de la base (310) ; et
    un ressort (312) monté entre la base (310) et le suiveur (311) pour charger le suiveur (311) vers la chambre de balle (11) ; et l'ensemble de chargement de balle est caractérisé en ce que
    un élément de limitation (30) est monté de façon sécurisée autour du canon (1A) et comprend
    une plaque-support correspondant au magasin (31), montée de façon sécurisée autour du canon (1A) et présentant deux faces opposées et deux fentes de pivot (305) définies sur les côtés de la plaque-support et adaptées pour s'engager de façon pivotante avec les pivots (222) sur les dents (221) de la liaison (22) ; une barre (303) étant longitudinale, formée sur la plaque-support et ressortant vers l'arrière de celle-ci, adaptée pour coulisser linéairement dans la fente de guidage (14) dans le corps (1) et ayant une extrémité arrière ; et une limite (301) formée sur l'extrémité arrière de la barre (303), faisant saillie de l'extrémité arrière du canon (1A), située à l'avant de l'axe du passage de balle (15) et adaptée pour exercer une pression contre la balle la plus haute (4) dans le passage de balle (15).
  2. Ensemble de chargement de balle selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la limite (301) de l'élément de limitation (30) présente une surface de limitation (302, 302a, 302b) définie sur la limite (301), dirigée obliquement vers le bas du passage de balle (15) et adaptée pour exercer une pression contre, et ajuster, la balle la plus haute (4).
  3. Ensemble de chargement de balle selon la revendication 2, dans lequel la surface de limitation (302) est plate.
  4. Ensemble de chargement de balle selon la revendication 3, dans lequel la surface de limitation est concave (302a).
  5. Ensemble de chargement de balle selon la revendication 3, dans lequel la surface de limitation est convexe (302b).
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