US2142300A - Toy pistol - Google Patents

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Jan. 3, 1939.v W. A. BROCK TOY PISTOL Filed Dec. 24,' 195e 1Q A ze JZ E6 Patented Jan. 3, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE '7 Claims.

This invention relates to toy pistols and to an article of manufacture adapted to be attached to existing toy pistols and other like devices for producing sparks without any hazardous use of the pistol.

Among the objects of my invention is to provide a toy pistol for children which will produce sparks in simulation of the ring of an actual revolver, but which will be without any hazard either of fire or llame or noise; to provide a toy pistol which will automatically produce sparks to simulate firing of the pistol merely upon a quick movement of the pistol, as in levelling the pistol in aiming the same at a given object; to provide a simple attachment which may be economically attached to a toy pistol either upon the outside of the pistol or within. the barrel of the pistol and which attachment will produce sparks upon a given movement of the pistol; to provide these and other objects of the invention as will be apparent from a perusal of the following speciiication when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing wherein- Figure l is a side View cf a toy revolver with my improved sparking mechanism attached to the top, outer portion thereof;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary view of Figure l showing the sparking mechanism shifted to operative position;

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 o-f Figure 2;

Figure l is a vertical cross-sectional View of the device shown in enlarged detail and partly vin cross-section;

Figure 5 is a modified form of my invention showing the sparking mechanism disposed in the barrel of the pistol or revolver; and

Figure 6 is a section on line 6 6 of Figure 5. Referring now to the drawing in detail, my invention may be embodied either in a toy pistolra gun, or in any similar device which may occur to the user and wherein such device is adaptable for a motion allowing the automatically operating spark device to create sparks for any desired purpose.

In the present instance, I have illustrated the invention as applied to a toy pistol or revolver of any desired outline. In the instant disclosure the revolver comprises a stock or butt 2, an imitation trigger 4, and an imitation barrel 6, the pistol butt being suitably shaped to be held in the hand as any ordinary type of pistol.

My improved invention is shown in Figure 1 as adapted for attachment to the outer side of the pistol. In this instance I prefer to attach it at the top. My attachment comprises a frame or standard 8 and a standard I0. These standards may be integral or separate, and suitable means is provided such as screws or otherwise for attaching them to the body of the pistol. These two standards 8 and I!) are provided with register- 5` ing bores, such as I2, through which an elongated shank i 4 is freely shiftable. The shank I4 has on one end a weight Iii and on the other end a counter-weight I8. The standard I0 has its upper portion formed as a ring 20 within which detachably lits another ring 22, these two rings being provided with registering openings 24 disposed concentrically and radially about the two rings. In each ring is adjustably seated an elongated lint or other substance 26 which will produce sparks when rubbed upon by sand paper, emery cloth, or other like material, as is wellknown in the art.

That end of the rod I4 adjacent the counterweight I8 is provided with an opening 30 and the counter-weight I8 is provided with a threaded shank 32 adapted to screw into the threads of the opening 3! in the end of the rod I4. In addition, there is provided a series of spring iingers 3S which on their outer surfaces are coated with 2. emery cloth or any suitable abradant 38 or other material having a high frictional coefficient. These flexible iingers are preferably formed of spring metal from a single sheet having a central circular portion, the center of which is provided with a hole through which the threaded lug 32 passes and the outer portions being readily spaced apart and bent over at right angles as shown in Figure 4, the resiliency of the metal holding them outwardly, as shown therein,

When the counter-weight I8 is screwed into position, the resilient short ngers will be assembled and held in operable position as shown in Figure 4. In the actual use of the device the toy pistol is held as shown in Figure 1. It is then o brought down sharply from an elevated position at about the elevation of the ear, down forwardly to a position approximately at the level of the hip, as a person would do in taking pot aim at a moving object. This quick motion will 45 cause the weights I6 and I8 to move forwardly through the bracket 8 and will cause the resilient ngers to wipe past the inwardly projecting flints 26, whereby to cause a succession of sparks to shower about the revolver.

Figure 2 shows the position of the revolver in the forward position of the bolt I4. The two weights I6 and I8 tend to balance one another, and hence tend to prevent the shank or bolt I4 from frictionally binding in the bore I2 of the 55 bracket or saddle 8. The bolt is free to be slid back to its return position, such as shown in Figure 1. This can be caused by a reverse movement of the toy pistol. It will be noted that the saddle 22 carrying the flint is detachably and frictionally held within the frame 20 and that the flints projecting through the registering holes tend to hold the flint-carrying saddle in place. The ilints may be readily removed for replacement.

In Figures 5 and 6 I have shown a modified form of pistol wherein the barrel 42 is apertured frictionally to hold a ring bracket 44 having -a bore 46 through which the bolt 48 may slide. This bolt carries at one end a weight 50 and at the opposite end a counter-weight 52 holding the spring fingers 5I in position as hereinbefore described. In addition, the barrel 42 holds a ring-like frame 56 in position surrounding the bolt 48 and this frame carries a series of flints 58 projecting inwardly into the path of movement of the fingers 54 carrying the frictional surfaces.

The operation of the device of Figure 5 is similar to that of Figures 1 and 2.

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

1. A toy pistol or other device comprising a body forming a simulation of a fire-arm adapted to be held by the operator and to be quickly moved to an aimed position, a bracket on said body, a weighted bolt slidable therethrough, a support carried by said body provided with a int, said bolt carrying a surface having a high frictional co-efcient wipingly engaging the flint to create a succession of sparks upon movement of the fire-arm.

2. A toy pistol or fire-arm carrying a weighted bolt slidably mounted thereon, said fire-arm and said bolt carrying cooperating flint and friction members for wiping engagement upon quick movement of the fire-arm.

3. A toy pistol having a barrel provided with a hollowed out portion, a bolt slidably mounted in said hollowed out portion, said bolt being weighted whereby upon quick motion of said pistol the bolt will be slid endwise relative to the pistol, and sparking means carried by the pistol and bolt respectively and adapted to be brought into wiping engagement upon the movement of said bolt relative to the pistol to produce sparks.

4. An attachment comprising a pair of spaced brackets adapted for attachment to a toy firearm, one of said brackets having an aperture to slidingly receive a weighted bolt, the other of said brackets carrying a mounting, a frame ln said mounting, said frame having a plurality of inwardly extending flints carried thereby, said bolt having a head, and material having a high co-efcient of friction carried by said head and adapted to engage the iint.

5. An attachment for a toy re-arm or the like comprising bracket means, flint means carried by said bracket means, a weighted bolt carried by said bracket means and slidable relatively thereto, said bolt having a weighted head attachably connected thereto, a plurality of resilient fingers mounted on said bolt by screwing said head thereon, the outer surfaces of said fingers being covered with material of a high co-eficient of friction, said fingers being resilient and spreading outwardly to engage the flint means upon movement of said bolt.

6. A toy pistol or the like comprising a body portion simulating a fire arm, spaced brackets carried by said body, a bolt slidably mounted in one of said brackets and passing through the second bracket, said second bracket comprising a cylindrical portion concentric to the axis of said bolt and having a plurality of angularly spaced, radially extending apertures, a plurality of flints supported by said second bracket and extending through said apertures, a plurality of resilient ngers mounted on said bolt, the outer surfaces of said fingers being coated with a material having a high co-elicient of friction and a Weight secured to said bolt causing said bolt to slide relative to said bracket whereby said fingers will wipingly engage said flints upon a quick movement simulating the aiming of a re arm.

7. An article of manufacture capable of being held in the hand and moved quickly, a Weighted member slidably mounted thereon and having suicient inertia so that it is adapted to be shifted with respect to said article by the said quick movement of the article, and sparking means carried by said member and said article and adapted to be brought into wiping engagement to produce sparks upon shifting of the said weighted member relative to the article.

WILLIAM A. BROCK.

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