US1980290A - Toy weapon - Google Patents

Description

Nov. 13, 1934. E. s. F EAKE 1,980,290

TOY WEAPON Filed May 6, 1952 s sheets sheet 1 INVENTOR EDWARD S. PEAKE,

ATTORNEYS LTW'TJMLW'M Nov. 13, 1934. E. s. PEAKE 1,980,290

TOY WEAPON Filed May 6, 1932 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR EDWARD s. PEA/f5,

MM'rJW AfTTORNEYS Nov. 13, 1934. s, PEAKE 1,980,290

TOY- WEAPON Filed May 6, 1932 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 ATTORNEYS Patented Nov. 13, 1934 FUNET'ED STATES TOY WEAPON Edward Sutton Peake, Westerville, Ohio, assignor to The Kilgore Mfg. Company, Waterville, Ohio,

a corporation of Ohio Application May 6, 1932, Serial No. 609,702

21 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in toy .pistols, and has for its object to provide a toy pistol of the machine gun type, in which there are successive discharges caused by the continuous operation of a single operating handle.

It is an object of this invention to provide, in connection with a machine gun toy pistol, a rotating member adapted to be operated by a crank member that will feed a strip of ammunition by successive steps and at the same time remove a hammer from an anvil so that the strip of ammunition may be fed, and-thereafter release the hammer for firing the ammunition.

It is also an object of this invention to provide, in connection with such an operating means for a machine gun toy pistol, means to guide the ammunition and cooperate with the hammer operating means for feeding the strip of ammunition between the hammer removed from the anvil and the anvil.

These and other advantages will appear from the following description taken in connection with the drawings.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the toy weapon.

Figure 2 is a front elevation.

Figure 3 is a section through the toy weapon, showing the righthand part of the casing with the parts in firing position.

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 but with the parts in ammunition feeding position, and at the beginning of the feeding action.

Figure 5 is a view showing detail parts of the operating mechanism.

Figure 6 is a view similar to Figures 3 and 4 but with the operating mechanism in a position-assumed when the feeding is practically finished and just before firing.

Figure '7 is a transverse horizontal section on the line 7--7 of Figure 6.

Figure 8 is a section through the casing, showing the means by which the operating sleeve is supported. I

Figure 9 is a view of the righthand side of the front of the weapon. a

Figure 10 is a side elevation of the operating sleeve for actuating the hammer and feeding the strip of ammunition.

Figure 11 is a view the reverse of Figure 10.

Figure 12 is a view of a modified form of operating sleeve. 1

Figure 13 is a view showing one section of the casing and a modified form of firing apparatus.

Figure 14 is a section on the line 14-14= of Figure 13.

Figure 15 is a view similar to Figure 13' but showing another modified form of firing apparatus.

Figiue 16 is a section on the line 1616 of Figure 15. '6

Figure 1'7 shows a piece of a strip of ammunition.

The casing forming the outside structure of the toy pistol or weapon is composed of two parts, a righthand side part 1 and a lefthand side part 5 2, connected by means of screws 3. This casing, in the form shown in Figures 1 and 2, is in the shape of a pistol and has a handle grip 4 and a barrel 5.

Suitably located in one of the sides of the casing, for instance the righthand side, as shown in Figure 3, is a pin 6 which supports a hammer 7. This hammer is in the shape of an arcuate memher with a hole in one end through which the pin 6 extends for rotation and oscillation. The striking end of the hammer is indicated by the numeral 8. Fitting around the pin 6 and to one side of the-hammer is a coil spring 9, one end of which engages a lug 10 on the casing, while the other end engages a lug 11 on the hammer. The purpose of this spring is to force the hammer against the anvil, later to be described.

This hammer, as clearly shown in Figure 4, has three distinct surfaces adjacent the striking surface and between the striking surface and the pivot of the hammer. The part of the hammer adjacent the striking surface is cam shaped, as indicated by the numeral 12, and terminates in an arcuate surface 13 adapted to fit around the outer periphery of a rotating and actuating sleeve, later to be described. Adjacent the armate surface 13 is a notch 14, the purpose of which will be later described.

Extending through the sides of the casing is an opening or hole. The part of this hole in the righthand side of the casing -is indicated by the numeral 15, while the corresponding part of this hole in the lefthand side of the casing is indicated by the numeral 16 and has around it, in the left side of the casing, an annular flange 17 which is somewhat flared toward the center of the casing. Located within the casing and supported by the righthand side of the casing and in the hole 15 is a sleeve 18.

This sleeve has one end 19 reduced to fit within the hole 15, while the'other end 21 of the sleeve is enlarged and fits over and about the flange 17. The reduced end 19 of the sleeve 18 has a slot 20 to receive a lug 36 on an operating shaft 35. Within the enlarged part of the sleeve and adjacent the passageway therethrough is a stop shoulder 22 to be engaged by the lug 36 for rotating the sleeve 18.

This sleeve 18 has a plurality of projections thereon forming cams, each projection constituting a pair of cams, one cam 23 for engaging the cam surface 12 on the hammer and another cam 24 for engaging the strip of ammunition for feeding it to the hammer, and between the hammer and the anvil 25. The spring 9 normally holds the hammer in engagement with the anvil, with the strip of ammunition between the hammer and the anvil, as shown in Figure 3.

On the inside of the righthand side member of the casing is a cavity 270., which is somewhat elongated, with a pin 26 at one end thereof. To this pin is pivoted one end of a link 27, which has a hole therein for receiving the pin 26. This link lies within the cavity 27a and is restricted in its swinging movement about the pin 26 by the walls of this cavity. The other end of the link 27 from the pin 26 has a pin 29 thereon, which carries a roller 28.

In order to urge the roller into its lowermost position, with the link 27 against the lower wall of the cavity, aspring 30 is provided between the roller and the upper wall of the pistol casing. The pin 26 not only serves to support the link 27 but may be used for supporting a roll of caps 31. These caps are formed into strips and rolled into a roll, such as 31, shown in Figures 3 and 4. The free end of the strip extends out through an opening 32 in the front wall of the casing, and in order to support the free end of the strip as it advances forwardly, there is provided in the casing a supporting pin or lug 33, just below and adjacent the roller 28. This pin or lug 33 and roller 28 serve to guide the strip of ammunition from the roll, out through the opening 32 and between the hammer and the anvil.

The shaft or spindle 35 has on one end thereof a handle 34 by which it may be rotated. The spindle or shaft is placed in the sleeve 18 so that the lug 36 will pass through the slot 20, and on rotation will engage the shoulder 22 so that the sleeve will rotate with the rotation of the spindle or shaft 35.

In the form shown in Figure 13 a pin or projection 37 in one side of the casing supports pivotally an arm 38, which has intermediate its ends a pin 39 for supporting a guiding and feeding roller 40. The end of the arm 38 opposite the end attached to the pin 37 is a hammer 41 adapted to strike upon an anvil 42. The hammer is held in engagement with and resting upon the anvil by means of a coil spring 43, one end of which engages the upper edge of the casing while the other end engages the arm 38, with the intermediate part coiled around the pin 37.

There is also provided means for supporting a roll of ammunition material 44. This roll is supported on a pin or projectionsimilar to the manner in which the roll 31 is supported. Extending from this roll of ammunition material is a strip which extends out through an opening 46 and above a guide pin 45. This hammer is operated by means of a sleeve and cam mechanism similar to that shown in connection with Figures 3 and 4. I

In Figures 15 and 16 a slightly modified form of hammer is shown. In this the arm 38a is sup-, ported at one end by means of a pin 37a. On the other end of this arm 38a is a pin 39a, which carries a roller 40a which also serves as a hammer for striking the anvil 42a. The hammer or roller 40a is held in contact with the anvil by means of a spring 43a coiled around the pin 37a and engaging at one end the upper part of the casing, and at the other end the arm 38a.

The roll of cap material is indicated by the numeral 44a and is supported in the same manner that the other rolls are. The strip of cap material is fed over the pin or supporting lug 45a, out through an opening 46a between the hammer 40a and the anvil 42a. The hammer is elevated by means of the sleeve, with the cams thereon, and at the same time the strip is fed forwardly and after the strip has been fed the hammer is released, so that the force of the spring 43a drives the hammer 'onto the anvil and explodes the caps in the strip.

The pistol is operated continuously by the rotation of the sleeve through the handle 34 and spindle 35. During the rotation of the sleeve the projections thereon engage the strip of ammunition for feeding the ammunition. This feeding is effected by the cooperation of one of the projections on the sleeve with the roller, such as 28, shown in Figures 3 and 4.

Another projection is used for removing the hammer from the anvil so that the strip of ammunition may be fed across the anvil and to position the hammer for firing purposes. In removing the hammer from the anvil the projection first engages the cam part 12 of the hammer for withdrawing the hammer from the anvil. Thereafter this projection passes from the hammer and drops into the notch 14 so that, through the action of the spring, the hammer may be forced back onto the anvil against the ammunition placed thereon. When the hammer is forced back onto the anvil the arcuate part 13 fits around the sleeve. This operation is continuous.

While one pair of projections has been shown, different numbers of projections may be used, the idea being while one projection is feeding and advancing the strip of ammunition, another projection is withdrawing the hammer from the ammunition, and these two projections cooperate so that after one has fed the ammunition forwardly the one that has been used for removing the hammer from the anvil is released so that the operating spring forces the hammer against the anvil and causes the ammunition to explode.

It will be further understood that the rotary feeding means with its feeding cams for alternately feeding the strip and elevating the hammer or successively holding the hammer in elevated position while feeding the strip, is so arranged with its associated parts that the strip is held against return movement as well as against forward movement after it has once been fed and until the hammer can descend upon the strip and fire the ammunition.

Figure 17 shows a short piece of a strip 47 of ammunition composed of sheets of paper or other suitable material with intervening charger 48 of an explosive that ignites by percussion.

I desire to comprehend within my invention such modifications as may be embraced within my claims and the scope of my invention.

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

1. In a toy pistol, means to support a roll of ammunition, a hammer, a fixed anvil, a roller for guiding the ammunition, and a rotatable member for operating the hammer having cam surfaces thereon cooperating with the roller for feeding the ammunition.

2. In a toy pistol, means to support 'a roll of ammunition, a hammer, a fixed anvil,- a swinging roller for guiding the ammunition across the anvil, and a rotatable member for Operating the hammer cooperating with the swinging roller for feeding the ammunition.

3. In a weapon, means to support a roll of am- -munition,.a hammer, a fixed anvil, an oscillatory roller for guiding the ammunition across-the anvil, and a rotatable member havin g cams thereon for operating the hammer and for feeding the ammunition.

4. In a weapon, means to support a continuous strip of ammunition, an anvil, a hammer, means tending to hold the hammer against the anvil, a swinging guide roller, and a rotatable member cooperating with the guide roller to periodically feed the strip of ammunition and adapted to withdraw the hammer from the anvil as the strip is fed and to release the hammer afterthe strip has been fed.

5. In a weapon,'means to support a continuous strip of ammunition, an anvil, a hammer'normally resting on the anvil, a swinging roller, a rotatable member-cooperating with the roller to periodically feed the strip of ammunition, and adapted to withdraw the hammer from the anvil as the strip is fed and to release the hammer after, the strip has been fed, and means to cause the hammer to strike the anvil when the hammer has been released.

6. In a weapon, a casing having in one side a cavity and a pin in the cavity, an anvil, an arm located in the cavity and pivoted at one end to the pin, a roller on the other end of the arm for guiding a strip of ammunition across the anvil, and a rotatable member having means thereon cooperating with the roller to feed the strip and after the feeding of the strip to cause an impact upon the strip and the anvil.

'7. In a weapon, a casing having in one side a cavity and a pin in the cavity, an anvil, an arm located in the cavity and pivoted at one end to the pin, a roller on the other end of the arm for guiding a strip of ammunition across the anvil, and a rotatable member having a pair of cams thereon cooperating with the roller to feed the strip and after the feeding of the strip to cause an impact upon the strip and the anvil.

8. In a weapon, a casing having in one side a cavity and a pin in the cavity, an anvil, an arm in the cavity pivoted at one end to the pin, a roller on the other end of the arm for guiding a strip of ammunition across the anvil, means to produce impacts upon the strip, and a rotatable member having a projection thereon cooperating with the roller to feed the strip and after the strip is fed operating said means to produce an impact upon the strip and the anvil.

9. In a weapon, a casing having in one side a cavity and a pin in the cavity, an anvil, an arm in the cavity pivoted at one end to the pin, a roller on the other end of the arm for guiding a strip of ammunition across the anvil, means to produce impacts upon the strip and the anvil, and a rotatable member having thereon a pair of projections, one projection cooperating with the roller to feed the strip while the other projection is operating on the impact producing means.

10. In a weapon, a casing, an arm pivoted at one end to the casing, a roller on the other end of the arm, an anvil in the casing, a hammer pivoted in the casing, a spring tending to hold the hammer on the anvil, and a rotatable member having a pair of projections thereon, one projection acting to withdraw the hammer from the anvil while the other projection in cooperation with the roller feeds the strip along the anvil, said hammer and projections being so formed that after the hammer has been withdrawn a certain distance it will be released and the spring will force it against the ammunition on the anvil.

11. In a weapon, a casing, a roller supported in the casing for vertical movement, means in the casing for supporting a strip of ammunition for being fed along the periphery of the roller, a hammer pivoted in the casing, an anvil in the casing, means tending tohold the hammer against the anvil, and a rotatable member having a plurality of projections thereon, one projection acting to withdraw the hammer from the anvil while the other projection cooperates with the roller to feed the strip along the roller and the anvil, said hammer and projections being so formed that after the hammer has been with-. drawn a certain distance it will be released and the spring will force it against the ammunition on the anvil.

12. In a Weapon, a casing, an anvil in the casing, a hammer pivoted in the casing, means tending to hold the hammer against the anvil, said hammer having a cam'surface and a notch adjacent thereto, and a rotatable member having projections thereon, one projection acting to feed a strip of ammunition while another first engages the cam surface to remove the hammer from the anvil and thereafter drops into the notch to release the hammer.

13. In a weapon, a casing having in one side a cavity and a pin in the cavity, an arm pivoted at one end on the pin, a roller on the other end of the arm, an anvil adjacent the roller, a hammer for striikng the anvil, means tending to hold the hammer against the anvil, and a rotatable member having projections thereon, one projection cooperating with the roller to feed a strip of ammunition supported in a roll on the pin across the anvil and another projection operating on the hammer to withdraw it from the anvil while the strip is being fed and thereafter release the hammer, whereby said means will cause the hammer to strike the ammunition on the anvil.

14. In a weapon, a casing having in one side a cavity and a pin in the cavity, an arm pivoted at one end on the pin, a roller on the other end of the arm, an anvil adjacent the roller, a hammer for striking the anvil, means tending to hold the hammer against the anvil, a rotatable member having projections thereon, one projection cooperating with the roller to feed a strip of ammunition supported in a roll on the pin across the anvil and another projection operating on the hammer to withdraw it from the anvil while the strip is being fed and thereafter release the hammer, whereby said means will cause the hammer to strike the ammunition on the anvil, and means beneath the roller to support the strip of ammunition adjacent the roller.

15. In combination in a toy pistol, means to support an ammunition strip, a yieldingly mounted roller providing a feeding surface, hammer means to feed said strip along said surface beneath said hammer while maintaining the hammer in elevated position, and an anvil below said hammer between which and the hammer the ammunition strip is fed.

16. In combination in a toy pistol, means to support an ammunition strip, a yieldingly mounted feeding surface, hammer means to feed 'said strip along said surface beneath said ham- 'mer. while maintaining the hammer in' elevated position, an anvil below 'said hammer between whichand' the hammer the ammunition strip is .fed, and a feeding roller constitutingthe feed-- ing surface of said hammer adapted to rotate with said feeding means andstrip.

17. In a toy pistol, a pistol casing having a front discharge openingfor an ammunition strip, meansofsupporting an ammunition strip in the pistol, an anvil, a yieldingly mountedhammer, a 'yieldingly mounted feeding roller, for said strip,

and a common actuating means for the'feeding. I means and for the hammer actuating means, whereby they are successively operated and after 'firing by the engagement of the strip and the hammer on the anvilthe strip willbedischarged out of the front opening. 18. In a .toy, pistol'having a opening, a roll of ammunition strip discharging therethrough, a yieldingly mounted feeding disc front; discharge engaging saidstrip, a rotary feeding'means'having spaced. feeding shoulders for intermittent en-.

gagementi with the strip against said :rotaryfeed- .ing means, a stationary anvil, and a hammer actuated by said intermittent means for alter- 'nately engaging the .stripand the'hammer for I successive feeding and firing. I I

l 19. In a toy pistol; a casing having a front discharge: opening, I a yieldingly mounted ham- -mer, an abutment on said casing, resiliently mounted means to guide an ammunition strip,

said resiliently mounted; means including a link having thereon, a roller, and means cooperating with, the resilientlymounted means for feeding said ammunition strip: intermittently and 011-, crating said hammer. intermittently and: guiding the strip through the opening,

20; Ina toy pistol, a casing: having a front. discharge opening, a yieldingly mounted hammer, an abutment on said casing, resiliently mounted .means to guideanammunition strip, said resiliently mounted means including a link having thereon a roller, means cooperating with the resiliently mounted means for feeding-said ammunition strip intermittently and guiding. thestrip throughthe opening and operating said hammer intermittently, and a handle for continuously rotating said last mentioned means;

.21. In combination in'a' toy pistol of a casing having a front discharge Opening and an anvil EDWARD SUTTON PEAKEi I

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