US1647577A - Toy pistol - Google Patents

Description

Nov. 1, 192 7. 1,647,577

E. s. PEAKE TTTTTT TOL Patented Nov. 1, 1927.

3 TA T ES HA EDWARD s. PEAKE, or wEsTERviLLE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE KILGORE MFG. ooM- PANY, on WESTERVILLE, 01110; A oon'rona'rion or oHIo.

TOY' PISTOL.

Application filed August 18, 1924. Serial No. 732,752Q

pressure of the feeding pawl upon the strip as the latter is moved toward the anvil.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved feeding-plate and anvil construction which will satisfactorily cooperate with the means for engaging and moving the cap strips across the feeding plate.

Another object of the invention is to provide a feeding plate construction which will permit an increased feeding movement of the cap strip without lengthening the stroke of the feeding pawl.

In the accompanying drawings there is shown one embodiment of the invention, and in these drawings Figure 1 is a side elevational view with a portion of the casing broken away.

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 showing the position of the parts during the initialstages ofthe feeding operation, and

Figure 3'is a view similar to Figure 2 showing-the relative positions of the parts at the completion of the feeding operation and just before the hammer is released;

In the drawings the invention is-shown as embodied in a toy pistol which comprises the usualcasing provided-with a barrellt) and a grip or stock 11. The operating mechanism includes atrigger 13' mounted upon a fulcrum pin Hand having a rearwardly' extending portion 15, upon which is pivotally mounted a feeding pawl16providedwitlr a toe The feeding pawl is pivoted upon a stud 17 and is moved in acounterclockWise direction or forwardly by means ofa spring 18 coiled about the stud 17 and having its terminals engaging the pawl and trigger extension respectively; The trigger also carries upon a stud 19 a link 20 which engages ahammer 21 when the trigger is actuated and serves to retract the same. The hammer is normally moved to the position shown in Figure 1 by means of a spring 22'; and engagement between the hammer and the link is maintained by means of a spring 23 coiled about the stud 19 and extended to engage the link and trigger respectively. The mechanism above described is old and well known in the art and does not of itself constitute part of the present invention, it having been described merely for the purpose of making the application of the invention entirely clear.

The hammer engages an anvil 24 which is formed upon one of the casing sections and is extended downwardly to provide a cap strip feeding plate 24:. The plate forms a compartment 25 for a cap strip roll 26 which may be mounted upon a supporting pin 27. The cap strip is lead rearwardly and upwardly from the face of the feeding plate, and, as will be understood, as the hammer is retracted, the pawl 16 engages the strip and feeds the same upwardly. As the trigger is retracted, the pawl is moved toward the plate against which it is held by means of the spring 18. In the use of pistols of this character it has been found that as the pawl is moved across the face of the anvil, there is a tendency, due to the gradually increasing tension of the spring 17 to tear and mutilate the cap strip. It is, therefore, desirable to make an allowance for this increase in tension and to maintain the pressure of the pawl upon the cap strip substantially even or uniform during the entire feeding operation; For this purpose, in the present construction the feeding plate is formed so that a' portion of its surface over .which the cap strip. is fed and which is engaged by the pawl is inclined away-from the pawl. More over in order to insure a positive engagement between the pawl and-the cap strip during the initialstages of the feeding operation, it is desirable notto so incline the portion of the feeding plate initially engaged, but, rather, to incline the same toward the feeding pawl. 7

In the construction shown in the accompanying drawings it will be noted that at the lower end 26 the'surface of the plate, which is the port-ion of the plate first engaged by the pawl, is inclined rearwardly or toward the feeding pawl, but substantially at a point 27 the plate surface is inclined in a reverse direction or away'fromthe pawl. This inclination continues toa point 28'whichis the limit of the travel 'of'the pawll l/Vhen the triggeris retracted the pawl'engages the cap at substantially the lower end of the anvil extension or feeding plate and for a suitable distance, ordinarily about one-eighth of an inch strip. During the continuation of the travel of the pawl upwardly itnioves over the re versely' inclined portion of the feeding plate surface and, consequently, although the spring 17 is compressed further and its ten sion gradually increases, due to the movement of the pawl pivot toward the feeding plate, the inclination of the platesurface abovedescribed makes an allowance for this increase in tension and serves to prevent the pawl from exerting too great a pressure upon the cap strip. It should further be observed that from the point 28 the plate is inclined again rearwardly so that the anvil 24 is not perpendicular, but, is inclined rearwardly with respect to a perpendicular plane. This inclination is desirable for the reason that it increases the volume and report of the explosion to a certain extent.

By curving the. portion of the feeding plate Q lover which the feeding pawl travels, it is possible to obtain a feeding movement of the cap strip in excess of the pawl movement in the same direction. In other words, the pawl travels in a curvilinear path, due to the curvature of the surface of the feeding plate between the points 26 and 28, and advances the cap strip a greater distance than if the pawl travelled in a-rectilinear path between the. same points. It will be understood, that it is, of course, desirable to have only a limited feeding pawl movement since extended movement compresses eX- tremely the spring 18, and destroys in a short-time the originalresiliency and tension of the spring. If the movement of the pawl is limited, as is possible in a construe.-

tion such as has been described without reducing the distance the strip. is advanced, the spring 18 is not compressed during the latter stages of the pawl movement to an undesirable degree, and the life of the same is thus considerablyprotracted.

- Obviously, the invention is not limited to the provision of a. feeding plate having, strictly speaking, a curved surface over which the feeding pawl travels since most any other formation than a plane or rectilinear surface between the point of engagement 26 of the pawl with the plate 24 and the point 28 where the movement of the pawl terminates would accomplish this same result, namely of effecting a rectilinear advancement of the cap strip greater than the movement of the feeding pawl in the same direction. It should be understood, therefore, that when the term curved is used in the specification and claims with reference v to the formation of the feeding plate surface,

a strip of caps is fed, a pawl for enga it is intended to cover such equivalent construction.

I claim: 7

1. A device of the class described comprising a cap strip feed plate over which a strip of caps is fed, a pawl for engaging and feeding the strip, means for actuating the pawl including spring means which is placed under tension as the pawl is moved,

said plate having a portion of its surface over which the pawl travels in its feeding n'iovement inclined away from the pawl in the direction of the feed of the strip, and a portion initially engaged by the pawl not being so inclined.

2. A device of the class described comprising a cap strip feed plate over which ging and feeding the strip, means for actuating the pawl including spring means which is placed under tension as the pawl is moved, said plate having a portion of its surface over which the pawl travels in its feeding movement inclined away from the pawl in the direction of the feed of the strip and another portion over which the strip is initially engaged by the pawl inclined toward the pawl in the direction of feed.

o. A device or tne class described comprising a cap stri a feed plate over which a strip of caps is fed, and a feed pawl adapted to be moved over a portion of the sur face of said plate, that portion of the feed plate surface over which the pawl is moved in its feeding operation being of convex curvilinear formation.

4:. A device of the class described comprising a cap strip feed plate over which a strip of caps is fed, a. pawl for engaging and feeding the strip, means for actuating the pawl, said plate having that portion of yits surface overwhich the pawltravels in its feeding operation of curved'formation with the part over which the strip is initially engaged by the pawl being inclined toward the pawl in the direction of feed.

5. A device of the class described comprising a cap strip feed plate over which a strip of caps is fed, a pawl for engaging and feeding the strip, means for actuatin the pawl, said plate having that portion 0 its surface over which the pawl travels in its feed operation of curved formation with the part over which the strip is initially engaged by the pawl being inclined toward the pawl in the direction of feed and the following portion overwhich the pawl travels inclined away from the pawl in the direction of feed of the strip.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

EDWARD S. PEAKE.

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