US1944377A

US1944377A - Amusement device

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Publication number: US1944377A
Application number: US667156A
Authority: US
Inventors: Taylor Daniel Everett
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1933-04-21
Filing date: 1933-04-21
Publication date: 1934-01-23
Anticipated expiration: 1951-01-23

Description

Jam. 23, 934.. D. E. TAYLOR 9 7 AMUSEMENT DEVICE Filed April 21, 1933 if? A which are made in are designed when UNETE STATES PATENT ()FFIC'E AMUSEMENT DEVICE Daniel Everett Taylor, Willimantic, Conn. Application April 21, 1933. Serial No. 667,156

1 Claim.

This invention relates to the type of devices the shape of pistols and that operated to project a harmless missile that supplies its own propelling force.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which is inexpensive to make and simple to use,

is durable and attractive, and

which will afford juveniles and adults means for enjoyable games or pastime competitions.

The embodiment of the invention illustrated has a body approximating the shape of an automatic pistol. Pivoted near the top at the back of the barrel section of the body is a member that has one or more rotatory or oscillatory firing pins.

The missile which is used with the device is an elastic band, and it is stretched from the muzzle end of the barrel section of the body over a firing pin. Pivotally attached to and conforming to an extent to the rear edge of the grip is a hand piece, the upper end of which is shaped to provide a sear that when the device is loaded engages the firing pin member and holds a firing pin in cocked of the missile.

position, that is, with the pin over hich the missile is stretched under the tension A spring normally thrusts the hand piece backward with relation to the grip.

When the hand piece is pressed forward by the palm of the hand of the user as he squeezes the grip, the sear is member and the allowed to swing disengaged from the firing pin pin which holds the missile is forward and liberate the tense missile.

form of the device firing, that is, with the missile under tension.

Fig. 2 shows a vertical section through the grip section of the body.

Fig. 3 is a view looking toward the rear of the grip.

Fig. 4 is a section across the grip on the dotted line 4.4 on Fig. 2

outline of a pistol with The body, preferably having the conventional grip 1 and barrel 2 may be made of wood, composition or metal as desired.

In the preferred form of the device illustrated the firing pin member 3 has four firing pins 4 that project at approximately right angles to each other. pin 5 in a mortise rel section, in such This member is rotatably held by a pivot 6 in the rear end of the barposition that one of the pins projects upward above the top of the barrel section.

In this form the rear edge of the grip secon has a mortise 7 and in this mortise is the hand When the elastic missile 12 is stretched from the muzzle of the barrel over the upwardly projecting pin, the elements are retained in that relation by the engagement of the sear with the forwardly extending pin. A light pressure against the hand piece, as a squeeze of the hand holding the grip, releases the sear from the forwardly projecting pin and allows the upwardly proforward so that the misproject itself with considerable force. As this occurs the pin over which the missile was stretched turns into engagement with the sear leaving the following pin extending upward in position to receive another band. With this form which has the revolving firing pin member there is alwaysone upwardly extending pin for receiving the missile and one forwardly extending pin engaged by the sear at the upper end of the hand piece.

A squeeze on the grip presses the hand piece forward and causes the sear to release the firing pin and allow it to rotate forward under the tension of the missile. As the forward end of the missile is looped over the end of the barrel, from which it can readily escape, and the firing pin accuracy may be attained when shooting at a target or other object. The device is inexpensive to manufacture and may be used by children in playing games, as the missile although projected with considerable velocity by its own inherent elasticity, is harmless, and it also can be used by older persons in games of competition.

The invention claimed is:

An amusement device which comprises a barrel having a slot in its rear end, a grip extending angularlv from the rear end of the barrel and having in its back edge a mortice that communicates with the slot in the barrel, a member rotatably mounted in the slot in the barrel, said member having a plurality of radially extending arms that successively project above the barrel and are adapted to receive, as said member is rotated, a loop of an elastic missile, a hand piece located in the morti ce in the grip with its lower and causing the upper end of the hand piece to end pivoted to the lower end of the grip and its extend into the path of and engage said arms, upper end movable into and out of the path of inward pressure on said hand piece moving its the arms of the rotatable member, and a spring upper end from the path of and permitting the 5 fastened in the grip mortice and normally pressarms to rotate. 8

ing the hand piece outward from the grip mortice DANIEL EVERETT TAYLOR,

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