US1075392A - Toy pistol. - Google Patents

Description

C. A. BAILEY.

TOY 'PISTOL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.11,1912.

1,075,392. Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

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TOY PISTOL.

Application filed January 11, 1912.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BAILEY, of Cromwell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a Toy Pistol, of which the following is a full and complete specification.

My invention relates more especially to that class of such devices in which the explosive-caps or patches of fulminate are placed on a roll of tape, so that said caps may be successively brought into position with respect to the hammer by drawing the tape over the anvil upon which said hanr mer strikes when the trigger is operated.

The primary object of my present invention is to provide a toy-pistol of this char acter which is simple and cheap in construct-ion, and in which the feeding of the tape to bring the caps into striking position is effected by hand after the operation of drawing back the hammer to cook the pistol.

A further obect of the present invention is to provide a construction of toy-pistol in which the roll of tape may be readily placed in position'andheld, and the end of the tape placed upon the anvil.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is more specifically set forth in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification :Figure 1 is a side elevation of a toy-pistol constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view, looking at the other side of the pistol. Fig. 3 is a plan View. Fig. 4 is a sectional view, showing the application of the invention to a toy-bomb.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

My invention, in the present instance, is applied to the conventional style or design of toy-pistols, comprising a barrel 5, lockchamber 6, and handle 7, and is provided with a hammer S, operated in the usual manner by means of a trigger 9, the latter being protected by the customary trigger-guard 10.

In carrying out my present invention the opposite sides of the lock-casing are cut away, as shown in the drawings, the opening in the side 11 (Fig. 1), being extended forward to near the forward end of said casing, and the opening in the other side, 12 (Fig. 2), extends forwardly only a short distance. Projecting inwardly from the side 12 of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 14,1913. SerialNo. 670,596.

casing, adjacent the edge of the aforementioned opening therein, is a pin 13, and upon this pin is mounted a roll of tape 1 1, having fulminate-caps, as 14 placed thereon at equal distances apart, the outer end of said roll of tape being passed upward through an opening 15* in the upper part of the lockcasin-g directly in the rear of the anvil 16, and in the present instance the latter is extended downward and curved forward, as at 16, to provide a guiding tongue over which the tape passes. In order to facilitate placing the outer end portion of the roll of tape into the vertical opening 15, one side, as 11, of the lock-casing is provided with a vertical slot, 17, open at both ends, the side of the casing opposite this slot being closed, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings. By providing this slot the operation of applying a roll of fulminate-tape is greatly simplified, as after the roll is placed in the case and the outer endportion is drawn through the opening below the slot said endportion of the tape may be slipped int-o place by passing it laterally through the slot into the opening 15. It Will be noted, also, that the end portion of the fulminate tape may be fed along to bring a cap into proper position with respect to the hammer by gripping the opposite edges of the tape through the openings formed in the lock-casing, the opening in the side 12 being extended upward to approximately opposite the place where the cap rests to be struck by the hammer. In the present instance the fulminatetape 14 is a little wider than the slot 18 through which the head of the hammer works, so that the opposite shoulders 19, 19, may bear lightly against the edges of the tape and hold it by frictional contact after the end of the tape is fed upward to bring the next cap into proper place.

In the operation of the device the hammer is first drawn back, releasing the tape, and the latter is then fed along either by pulling upon the projecting end or gripping the edges of the tape below the anvil through the openings in the sides of the casing, as hereinbefore explained. It will be seen, therefore, that after each cap has been exploded the tape can be quickly fed along to bring the next cap into proper position.

For the purpose of holding the roll of fulminate-tape upon the projecting pin 13 the forward part of the opening in the side 11 of the lock-casing may be closed by a suitable cover-plate; or, as shown in Fig. 1, said roll is held in place by a spring-metal strip 21, pivoted above the opening, at 22, and adapted to swing over the outer end of the pin, the lower or free end being pressc into frictional engagement with the side 11 below the opening.

In Fig. 4: of the drawings I have shown my invention applied to a toy-bomb, and in this instance the metal casting 30 at the lower end of the stick 31 is provided at one side below the slot 26 with a cup-shaped projection 25, at the upper edge of one of the sidewalls of which is a projecting pin 23 to receive the roll of fulminate-tape 24. In this instance the outer end portion of the roll of tape is passed through the slot or transverse opening 26 to bring the caps as 24 successively in place above the sliding hammer 32 of the bomb, the feeding of the tape being accomplished by drawing upon the projecting end, similar to the feeding of the tape in the pistol.

From the foregoing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of my invention will be readily understood, and it will be noted that in its application to both the pistol and bomb a simple and effective means is provided for feeding the tape along to bring the caps successively into proper position for explosion by the A hammer.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A toy-pistol having a casing the opposite sides of which are cut away below the anvil against which the hammer strikes and one of the sides having a vertical slot at one side of the anvil, a roll of fulminate-tape mounted in the casing and the outer end thereof passed over the anvil, and a ham mer for exploding the caps against said anvil, substantially as shown and described.

2. A toy-pistol having openings through opposite sides below the anvil against which the hammer strikes, and one of the sides having a vertical slot at one side of the anvil, a roll of fulminate-tape mounted in the pistol with its outer end passed up over the anvil, and engaging shoulders bearing'lightly against the edge of the tape to press it against the anvil, together with a hammer for exploding the caps, substantially as shown and described.

3. A toy-pistol having a casing a side of which is cut away, a pin projecting from the opposite side of the easing into the latter, a roll of fulminate-tape mounted in said casing on said pin and having its outer end passed up over the anvil, and a strip of spring metal pivoted to the side of the pistol above the opening to bear against the outer end of the pin and engage theside of the pistol at the lower end of the opening; together with a hammer for the pistol to explode the fulminate-caps against the anvil, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES A. BAILEY.

IVitnesses:

EDWARD M. TUTTLE, ELMER G. DERBY.

Copies 0! this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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