US1050959A - Toy pistol. - Google Patents

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i @NEWER GEORGE C. LASARES, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOY PISTOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 13, 1910'. Serial No. 577,045.

To au 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE C. LixsARns, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Springfield, inv the county vof Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toy Pistols, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to improvements in toy pistols and particularly of the type shown inthe patent issued to Lucian Hill.

on January 28, 1890, numbered 420,068, in which a thin piece of sheet-steel is rigidly secured by one of its ends to a `barrel element and attached to a hammer or operating element at its opposite end so that when the operating element is pulled back the piece of steel is crimped or bowed in one direction; and when the thin piece of steel is snapped in the opposite direction a projectile bearing against the center portion thereof will be violently thrown forward by the snapping action of the steel sheet, as fully described in the above referred to patent.

My invention relates to a magazine feature in which provision is made in the barrel portion for receiving a large number of cylindrically shaped projectiles of a. definite diameter and any suitable length, the sides of the magazine in which the projectiles are stored being formed on different angles or inclinations to the horizontal so that the projectiles will not bind on each other or bridge over the outlet or throatl opening in the bottom that leads to the bore of the barrel, but the lowermost one twill always roll downward into the. bore of the barrel and be struck by the center' portion of the piece1 'of' sheet steel when operated by the trigger. One Iedge of the throat opening is made higher than the other whereby a support i's formed to receive the next following projection before its passage through the throat into the bore of the barrel. l

In the drawings` forming part of this application,--l*`igure 1 is a plan View, looking downward upon tue pistol, showing the cover element and the upper portion of the operating element for the disk of thin steel. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 2 9, Fig. l, showing the pocket for receiving the projectiles and the diskshaped member crimped into one position after the lowermost pro jee-tile has been tired.

of the elongated throat la.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line l23--3 of Fig. 2 showing the shape of the projectile or magazine pocket, and clearly indicating that the sides thereof are of different inclination.

Referring to the drawings, a, designates the barrel portion ofthe pistol having the bore or opening b therein.- Attached to the enlarged rear side of the barrel is the handle or hilt member c. Located between the handle and the barrel is a piece of thin, sheet steel al that is rigidly secured at its upper end by means of the screws e, and attached to the lower end of the piece d is a trigger or operating element f which passes upward through the opening c1 of the handle, all as shown and fully described in the above referred to patent.

Referring now to the particular features of my invent-ion, in which the rear' portion of the barrel is provided with a cavity or magazine pocket g, it will be noticed that the sides of this pocket' are inclined, as indicated at h and z', and that the degree of inclination is different in the opposite sides,the side z' being 37 from the horizontal, while theside 7L is 30. The projectiles, which are approximately three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter and of oonsiderable length, are indicated, at y'. The lower portion of th'e'pocket g communicates with the rear portion of the bore Z) by means 1t will therefore be seen, -by reference to Fig. 3, that the lowermost projectile of those contained in the magazine will fall through this elongated-shaped throat, being pushed therethrough by the projectiles above, and on account of the diiierence of the inclination between kthe sides of the pocket., as soon as one projectile is thrown out or forward, the

next successive one will be pushed down by.

' tion of the sides of the pocket., lVhen the disk-shaped piece is snapped by the operating element f,this lowermost. 'projectile will be thrown in the manner i'ulljY described in the above referred to patent, to Hill.

It has been determined by actual experiment that the angles best suited to produce the best action arethe ones given. The

magazine er pocket opening is closed or cov-` ered by i. ans of au arcshaped inet-al elcratented Jan.21,1913.

after the projectile in the bore is dis-I charged. Therefore having o-ne edge above the other prevents any clogging or choking up of the throat, but at all times permits the projectiles to roll in succession through the throat into the bore.

vlllhat I claim is l. A toy pistol comprising a barrel niember having a bore therethrough, the rear portion of the member above that part of the bore being removed, the sides of the re- 4moved portion being inclined at different angles with relation to a horizontal plane and which extends into the bore of the barrel to form a throat opening through which the projectiles fall, the edge portions ofthe throat openings being located at dilerent distances from the horizontal plane lwhich passes through the axis of the barrel niember to receive the first and second projectiles above the one in the bore, whereby when the projectile in the bore is expelled the projectile-which is resting on the lowermost edge of the throat opening will drop into the bore, and the next following projectile will take its place, substantially as described.

2. A toy pistol arranged to shoot harmless projectiles cornprising a handle portion and a barrel portion having a horizontal bore, the latter portion being enlarged at its rear end to reoresent the cylinder of a revolver together with a spring firing disk mounted in the rear of the barrel portion, the en ti" -d end or the barrel portion having a cap ius chamber provided therein constructed with substantiall Wedge shaped walls to hold 'the projectiles yin'a wedge shaped pile with the projectile forming the apex of the wedge resting in the bore adjacent said spring disk, and means to operate the disk. wherebjT the apex projectile is thrown through the bore ande` another projectile from the wedge shaped pile 'falls to the apex position adjacent the spring dislt.

il. toj7 pistol arranged to shoot harmless projectiles comprising a handle portion and a barrel portion having a horizontal bore the latter portionibeing enlarged at its rear end together 'with a spring tiring disk mounted in the rear oit the barrel portion, the enlarged end oit the barrel portion having a capacious chamber open at the top and in free open communication with the bore at the bottom constructed with substantially wedge shaped Walls to hold the j irojectiles in a wedge shaped pile with the projectile forming the apex of the wedge resting in the bore adjacent` said spring disk, a removable cover for the top of said chamber arranged to allow free feeding access to the chamber when open and prevent the projectiles from flying out the top when closed, and means to operate the disk whereby the apex projectile is thrown through the bore.

Geenen c. rasante.

Witnesses:

I. I. CLEMoNs, HARRY W. BOWEN.

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