US1415976A - Firearm - Google Patents

Description

E. B. ANDES.

FIREARM,

APPLlCATlON FILED MAR. 6. 1922.

1,41 5,976., Patented May 16, 1922.

wires stores FAWN? EUG'IEEVE B. ES, 015' LANCASTER, PENNSYLV i. a

inmate.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 16, 1922.,

Application filed March 6, 1922. Serial No. 541,348.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE B. ANDns, residing at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, and citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in F irearms, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved form of firearm, specifically, in the embodiment disclosed herein, a toy .pistol, of the type adapted to use therein caps on a ribbon or tape that is fed, automatically, ,upon movement of the trigger, to present the caps successively to proper position with relation to the hammer and anvil.

The invention is more particularly con- Like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views of the drawing. Briefly described:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of the pistol of my invention;

Figure 2 is a view in elevation, looking at the inner face of one of the two casing-shells of the pistol, showing the actuating mechanism carried thereby, the two connecting screws for the two shell sections and the pin upon which the tape or ribbon is wound bein" in section;

igure 3 is a View similar to Fig. 2, but showing the position of the moving parts when the trigger has been pressed fully inward;

Figure 4 is a detached detail view, in side elevation, of the hammer;

Figure 5 is a detached detail view, in side elevation, of the toothed or star wheel; and I Figure 6 is a detached, detail view, in end elevation, of the hammer and toothed feedwhcel in co-operative position.

Referring, now, in detail, to the drawing:

1 and 2 designate the two, substantially similar shells or frame-sections of the pistol,

retained in assembled position by suitable securing means, such as bolts 3, 3. i designates the anvil integral with the frame-section 2 and shaped as an elongated fiat plate disposed in a plane at right-angles to the general plane of the section 2', and

presenting a flat contact surface to the impact face of the head 5 of the hammer 6.

The hammer 6 is an elongated member,

provided, toward the .end thereof opposite .the head 5, with an opening 6', whereby it may be suspended upon a pivot-pm 7 carrled by the 'shell-section'2; Thehammer is also'provided, at the end thereof opposite the head 5, with two toes 8 and 9 and, therebetween, with a recess 10; and, on one face and at one marginal edge, with a lug 6Fhav= ing an inclined top face and a vertical or v straight end face.

The trigger 11 is suspended from the pin I 12, and swinging movement of the-trigger is lim ted, in one direction,-by, the top-part1?) thereof impinging against one end of the fllangel of the section 2. The trigger carries, at one longitudinal side and toward the bottom thereof, a pin 15, on which the sear is I provided.

The scar is, roughly, in the form ofa bellcrank lever, having the longer arm 16 and the shorter arm 17. The longer arm, at its free extremity, is recessed, as shown at 18, in which recess the toe 9 of the hammer 6 rests, normally, as shown in Fig. 2. The shorter arm 17 is provided with a stop pin 17", which is adapted to ride into contact with the adj a- 4 cent marginal edge of the hammer 11, thus limiting movement of the sear, independent of the trigger, in one direction.

' A toothed or star wheel feeding-member 19 is provided with a central opening 20, through which the. pivot pin 7 projects, as shown in Fig. 2. The toothed wheel 19 is disposed against the hammer 6, face to face,

and is provided, on the face thereof adjacent the hammer 6, with a plurality of equidistantly spaced lugs 21, formed similarly to the lug 6.

Normally, the straight or vertical face or wall of the lug 6 of the hammer 6 bears against the corresponding vertical wall or thereby feeding the tape 23 hearing at intervals explosive fulminate caps 24.

Each two adjacent fulminate caps. on the I wheel.

The tape 23 is wound upon a pin 25 carried by the shell-section 2, and passes up between the anvil 4t and the hammer-head 5,

as shown in 2.

A resiliently-supported, tape-guiding member 26 is formed as an elongated plate having an ofiset upper portion 27, the free end 28 thereof bearing against the adjacent or rear face of the anvil a. The guide-member 26 depends below and above the anvil 4, as shown in Fig. 2. A spring 29, disposed between the ofiset portion 27 and a lateral flange 30 of the, shell-section 2, tends to press the guide-member 26 toward the star or toothed wheel 19.

A spring is coiled around the pin 7 as shown at 31, and one arm 32 of such spring bears against a projection 33 on the head 5 of the hammer 6, while, the other arm 34 bears against the pin 12.

A second spring is coiled around the pin 12, as shown at 35, and one arm 36 thereof bears against the flange 37 of the shell-section 2, while the other arm 38 bears against the shorter arm 17 of the scar and, thereby, functions to swing the longer arm 16 of the sear upward. I V In operation, the trigger 11 is pressed inward, moving the sear 16-17 in the same direction, thereby, by reason of the engage ment of the sear arm 16 with the lower end of the hammer 6, swinging the head5 of the latter away from the anvil 4,'against the influence of the spring-arm 32. In the continued movement of the trigger and, with it, the sear, the tooth 8 of the hammer rides into contact with the upper surface or edge of the arm 16 of the sear, forcing said seararm downward, or kicking the same out of engagement with the hammer 6. The hammer, now released, is now, by the spring arm 32, forcibly swung against the anvil 4, to explode the cap on the tape 24 which is in the path of movement of the hammerhead 5.

During the movement, aforesaid, of the hammer 6 away from the anvil 1, the hammer, by reason of the engagement of the vertical wall of the tooth 6 thereof with the corresponding vertical wall of the corre sponding tooth 21 of-the feed-wheel 19,

rotates the feed-wheel through the arc of a circle, thus feeding the tape 23 upward and presenting a fulminate cap thereon in proper position with relation to the anvil and the hammer-head 5.-

During the forward movement of the hammer 6, toward the anvil 1, under the infiuen'ce of the spring arm 32,'as described, the feed-wheel 19 does not partake of such movement, because the projection G 'of the hammer, by reason of the inclined face 6 rides or trails idly over the corresponding inclined faces of the lugs 21 of the feedwheel 15). The coil 31 of the spring 32-21% is disposed between the upper face of the wheel 19 and the inner face of the shellsection 1. Therefore, as the inclined face of. the lug 6 rides up on the inclined faces of the lugs 21 of the hammer 6, the starwheel '19 moves slightly away from the hammer 6 and the said coil 31 is compressed slightly; but, as the hammer-head 5 strikes the anvil 4 andthe movement of the anvil is arrested, said coil 31 expands to force the star-wheel 19 against the hammer 6, thereby bringing the straight or vertical wall 6 of the lug 6 into contact with the corresponding straight wall of the adjacent In 21 of the feed-wheel 19. -%imultaneously with the swinging forward of the hammer 6 in the direction of the anvil 4, the spring-arm 38 swings theseararm 16 upward into engagement with the hammer toe 9, and the" trigger 11 is, at the same time, moved forward to its initial position. I

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent. is:

1. In a pistol, anv anvil, a

mer is pivoted, a uhninate-cap tape adapted to move lengthwise between said anvil and the hammer impact-head, a trigger, means, actuated by the manual movement of said trigger and including a toothed wheel rotatably mounted on ,said pin and engaging said tape, for feeding said tape between said anvil and hammer. impacthead, and co-operating means carried by said hammer and wheel for coupling saidwheel to said hammer for simultaneous movement when the hammer is swung away from the anvil, and for permitting said wheel to remain stationary during the movement of the hammer toward the anvil.

2. In a pistol, an anvil, a pivoted hammer having an impact-head, a fulminate-cap tape adapted to move lengthwise between said anvil and said impact-head, a trigger,

a sear carried by said trigger and releas hammer having an impact-head, a in 'upon which said hamby the hammer upon movement of the latmer, spring means for normally maintain 11 ter away" from the anvil, and spring means ing sald sear in releasable engagement with for moving said hammer toward the anvil. sald hammer, and a toothed tape-engaging 4. In a pistol, an anvil, a pivoted hamand feeding wheel actuated by the hammer 5 mer having an impact-head, a :t'ulminateupon movement of the latter away from cap tape adapted to move lengthwise bethe anvil. 1: between said anvil and "said impact-head, a In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my trigger, a seal pivotally carried b said signature. trigger and releasably-engaging sai ham- EUGENE B. ANDES.

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