US1168950A - Toy gun. - Google Patents

Description

O. W. MALONEY.

TOY GUN. APPLICATION FILED MAR-26, 1915.

1,168,950. Patented Jan.18, 1916.

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Specification of Letters Efatent.

Patented J an. 18, 1916.

Application filed March 26, 1915. Serial No. 17,189.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN W. MALONEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Tulsa, in the county of Tulsa and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Guns, of which its terminals engaging the free ends of said I formation. 4/

members so that when the trigger mechanism 1s actuated the members are forcibly spread apart and operate to eject a projectile from a propelling device secured to the members ad acent the free ends thereof.

, The inventive idea involved is capable of receiving a variety of mechanical expressions, one of which, for the purpose of illustrating the invention, is shown in the accompanying drawing; but it is to be expressly understood that the particular construction shown in the drawing is used only for facilitating the description of the invention as a whole and not for defining the limits thereof, reference being had to the appended claims for this purpose.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a top plan view of the invention; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the invention showing the pivoted members thereof spread apart. I

Referring more particularly to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate similar parts, the numeral 5 indicates a stock having a suitable handle 6 formed integrally therewith and extending laterally at right angles thereto. The stock 5'is provided with a pair of adjacent pivot pins 7, each adapted to receive one end of a member 8 which is preferably made of metal and of channeled Each member 8 is provided upon its upper face with a cut out portion 9 so that when the members are in the position shown in Fig. 1 said out out portions will form an opening large enough for the reception of a projectile 10. The stock 5 is provided on the under side thereof with an elongated aperture '11 inwhich ispivoted at 12 a trigger-13 in the form of a bell crank lever. The trigger 13 has pivoted at one end thereof a small upright 14 which extends upwardly through an opening 15 communicating with the elongated aperture 11. The upper end of the upright 1 1 is provided with a transversely extending arm 16, each end of which is provided with a small projection 17 adapted to engage an opening 18 formed in the under face of each of the channeled members 8. hen the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1, the 'projections 17 are in engagement with the members 8 and retain them in this position. A small coiled springl is mounted in the opening 15 and has one end secured to the stock while the other end is secured in the upright 14: whereby the arm 16 is yieldably retained in the position illustrated in Fig. 3, the operation of the trigger 13 being against the tension of the said spring.

Each of the members 8 is provided in the free end thereof with a stud or pivot 20 to which is secured one end of a projectile propelling device 21 in the form of a sling. This sling 21 is preferably made of some strong flexible material such as leather and is adapted to assume the form of a loop, when the parts are in the position illustrated in Fig. 1, in order to receive the projectile 10.

A strong spring 22 is coiled intermediate its ends about each of the pivots 7 and the terminals 23 of said springextend along and engage the inner side of the bottom of the channeled members 8 whereby the free ends thereof are forced apart into the position shown in Fig. 1 when the trigger is operated to withdraw the projections 17 from the openings 18 in said members. It will be apparent that when the members are released as just described the sling 21 will be forcibly straightened, as shown in Fig. 4, and the projectile 10 will be forcibly propelled therefrom.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A device of the character described comprising pivoted members, means releasably engaging said members for retaining the free ends thereof together, a projectile propelling device carried by said members,

ing the freeends thereof together, a projec} tile propelling device carried bysaid members, and means for ejecting the projectile from saidpropelling device when said re-.

leasable means is actuated.

V 3. A device of the character described comprising a pair of channeled members pivoted at adjacent ends thereof, means releasably engaging said'members for retaining the free ends thereof together, a projec- Y tile propellingidevice carried by said members, and means engaging said members for forcing them apart to eject the projectile from said propelling device when said rei i carried by the stock and engaging said memleasable means is actuated. 6

4:. A device of the character described comprising a pair of channeled members pivoted at adjacent ends thereof, 'm'eans releasably engaging said members, for retaining the free ends thereof together, a prosecured at one endthereof to said stock,

jectile propelling device carried by said members, and a trlggerffor operating Silld' releasable means; 1' p,

5. In a device of the character described, the combination of a stock, pivoted members releasable ,means for. retaining the other ends of said members together, means for actuating said releasable -means,. and means for propelling a projectile, from said memhere when the releasable means is operated. 6. In a device of the character described,

the combination of a stock, pivoted members means, and means for propelling aproj ectile from said members when said releasable means is operated.

r 7 In a device of the character described, the combination of a stock, pivoted members.

secured at one endthereof tosaid stock, releasable means for retaining the other ends of said members together, means for forcing the free-ends of said members apart when r the releasable means is actuated, and means for propelling a projectile from said-(members'when the latter areforced apart;

, secured at oneendthereof to saidstock, re-

8. In a device of-the character described, the combination of a stock, pivoted members leasable ineansforretain ing the other ends of said members together, means'for actuating said releasable means, means for forcing the freeends of said members, apart when the releasable 'means is actuated, and means carried by said members for propelling a projectile therefrom when the. same are forced apart. V g

9. In a 'device of the character described, the combination of a stock, pivoted members secured at one end thereof tosaid stock, re-

leasable means for retaining the other ends of' said members together, means for forcing the free ends of said members apartwhen the releasable means is actuated,-and flexible means carried bysaid members for propelling the projectile therefrom when the same are forced apart. 7

1'0. Ina device of the character described the combination of a stock, apair of mem bers pivoted thereto, a trigger mechanism bers to retainthe free ends thereof together, a sprlng engaging said members to force them apart, whenthe trigger mechanism is actuated, and a flexible sling carried by said members. 1

11. In a device of the'character described, the combination of a stock, a pair of channeled members pivoted thereto, a trigger mechanism carried bythe stock and engag ing said members to retain the free ends thereof together, a spring coiled intermediate the ends thereof about the pivots of said members and having its terminals engaging said members to force thesame apart when the trigger mechanism is actuated, and a flexible slingconnected tothe free ends of said pivoted members. V

12. In a devieeof the character described, the combination of a stock, a pair of channeled members pivoted to said stock and provided with oppositely disposed cut out p'ortionsforming an aperture for the reception'of a projectile, a trigger mechanism carried bythe stock and engaging "said members to retain the free ends'thereof together, a spring for forcing said members apart when thetrigger mechanism is actuated, and

a flexible propelling device carried by said members for ejecting said projectile therefrom." v 7 13. In a device of the character described, the combination of a stock having a handle formed thereon, trigger controlled members pivoted to said stock, and projectile propelling means carried by said members and actuated by the operation thereof. 7 V OWEN MALONEY.

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