US1362171A

US1362171A - Toy cannon

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Publication number: US1362171A
Application number: US325138A
Authority: US
Inventors: Christian W Minnich
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-09-20
Filing date: 1919-09-20
Publication date: 1920-12-14
Anticipated expiration: 1937-12-14

Description

C. W. MINNICH.

TOY CANNON.

APPLICATION FILED $EPT.20, 1919.

1 3 2 1 7 1 Patented D60. 14, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TOY CANNON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14., 1920.

Application filed. September 20, 1919. Serial No. 325,138.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN lV. MIN men, a citizen of the United States, resid ing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toy Cannons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to toy cannons provided with a means for ejecting a missile therefrom, and its object is to provide a very simple and efficient ejector, and one which can be easily operated.

The object stated is attained by means of a novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that the same may be better understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a similar view, partly broken away and partly in section, and

Fig. 3 is a cross section of the gun-barrel.

Referring specifically to the drawing, the frame of the toy is composed of parallel, laterally spaced members 3 connected by cross bars 4 and 5, respectively, and shaped to resemble an ordinary gun carriage. The forward cross bar 5 supports the barrel 6, the former having upstanding bearings 7 for trunnions 8, which latter may be pins driven through the bearings and into the barrel, so that the latter may be swung as an ordinary gun barrel. The wheels 9 0f the gun carriage are attached to the members 3 in any suitable manner immaterial to the present invention.

The bore 6 of the barrel 6 opens through the rear end or the breech thereof to receive the missile 10, which latter may be a wooden or other light plug of such diameter as to fit slidably in the bore.

For ejecting the missile 10 from the barrel t3, a flat spring 11 is employed. This spring s secured at one end to the rear cross bar 4, 1n upright position, and so located that its free end is opposite the rear end of the barrel. This spring is attached to the forward edge of the cross bar, and this edge is in Vertical alinement with the rear edge of the barrel. It will therefore be seen that the spring normally seats across the rear end of the barrel. The spring is secured to the cross bar by a screw 12, the connection being sufficiently loose to enable the spring to be swung to one side or the other clear of the bore 9. This permits insertion of the mis sile 10, after which the spring is swung back to center position. The missile will be left protruding from the rear end of the bore, and to eject it, the spring is drawn rear wardly as shown in full lines in Fig. 2, so that upon releasing the spring it swings forwardly to the dotted line position and strikes the missile to eject it from the barrel. It will be understood that the spring will have suflicient tension so that it will hit the missile hard enough to shoot it some distance from the barrel.

I claim:

A toy cannon comprising a barrel having a bore opening through the rear end thereof, a support for the barrel,- and a missile ejector comprising a flat spring attached to the support and having its free end extending across the rear end of the barrel to engage a missile protruding from the bore, and said spring being free to be swung transversely of the barrel.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CHRISTIAN w. MINNIOH.