US2509552A

US2509552A - Toy gun having a rotatable magazine

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Publication number: US2509552A
Application number: US650864A
Authority: US
Inventors: Wolf Just
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1945-08-07
Filing date: 1946-02-28
Publication date: 1950-05-30
Anticipated expiration: 1967-05-30

Description

y 0; 1950 J. WOLF TOY GUN HAVING A ROTATABLE MAGAZINE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Feb. 28, 1946 \NVENTOR JusT WOLF m W 1 -85; ATT

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This invention relates to a toy in the form of a rifle, pistol, revolver, machine gun and the like and it has for its purpose to provide a toy made to imitate a repeating fire arm, which is of a simple and inexpensive construction and is adapted to shoot a plurality of projectiles in rapid succession in repetition firing.

In the accompanying drawings given by way of example:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary plan view of one embodiment of the toy according to the invention.

Fig. 2 is an elevational view partly in section, corresponding to Fig. 1.

Fi 2a is a fragmentary enlarged vertical sectional view of the detent release mechanism.

Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of the magazine.

Fig. 4 is an elevational view, partly in section, of a second embodiment.

Fig. 5 is a front view corresponding to Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 shows a longitudinal section of the magazine.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 3, I denotes a gun barrel carried by the stock or butt 2 of the toy, said butt being provided at the rear end of the barrel with a horizontal elongated opening 3 through which extends the magazine 4 which is in the shape of a flat circular segment rotatably mounted on the butt by a vertical pin 5 and urged in the direction of the arrow 1 by the action of a coil spring 6 carried by the pin 5. The magazine 4 is provided with cylindrical chambers I extending radially and opening outwardly at the periphery of the magazine, each of them containing a coil spring 8. Upon the lower face of the magazine, in vertical alignment with each chamber 1, is pivoted on a horizontal axis I a detent 9 provided at its front end with a catch or nose II adapted to extend upwardly into the corresponding chamber 7 of the magazine through a hole I2 provided there in. The nose II is urged into the corresponding chamber I by a coil spring I3 housed in a recess provided in the magazine and acting on the rear part of the detent.

In a vertical opening provided in the butt 2, is mounted a trigger I4 rotatably supported on an axis I5. A horizontal rod I1 is pivoted at I8 on the trigger and arranged in a slot provided in the body 2 in vertical alignment with the axis of the barrel. When the trigger is depressed, in opposition to the action of a spring I0, a pushing member I9 actuated by the front end of rod Il will act to raise the rear end of the detent 9 belonging to the chamber I which is then in alignment With the barrel.

The projectiles are constituted by cylindrical bullets 20 made for instance of wood, each of which is provided in. its rear part with an annular notch 2i arranged in such manner that, when the bullet is introduced into one of the chambers l by compressing the corresponding spring 8, the nose II on the detent will engage the rear wall of the notch 2|. The bullet will thus be held in the chamber, in opposition to the action of spring 8 and the front end of the bullet will slightly project outwardly from the periphery of the magazine.

When the arm is loaded, the outwardly projecting end of the bullet which is in alignment with the bore of the barrel is pressed laterally by the action of the spring 5 of the magazine against a side extension or lug 22 provided at the rear end of the barrel.

The operation of the above device is obvious; when the trigger I4 is depressed, the detent 9 of the first chamber 1 is caused to swing vertically, thereby allowing the nose I! to release the bullet 20 which is projected through the barrel by the corresponding sprin 8. Under the action of spring 6, the magazine 4 is then caused to rotate in the direction of arrow f until the bullet 20 in the next chamber 1 comes into engagement with the arresting lug 22 on the barrel I and reaches the firing position, and so on.

In order to reload, it is merely necessary to rotate the magazine 4 in the opposite direction to the arrow 1 to a position slightly beyond the initial position shown in Fig. 1 and to place bullets 20 into the chambers 'I.

In the modification shown in Figs. 4 to 6, which is of the revolver type, the parts corresponding to those above described are respec tively designated by the same numbers plus 100.

The magazine W4 is in the shape of a revolving cylinder rotatably supported on the butt I02 by a horizontal axis I30 carrying the magazine spring I06. The detents I09 are held in the armed position by an elastic ring I3I of rubber or the like engaging into a notch provided in the outer face of each detent.

The cylinder I04 under the action of spring I06 revolves in the direction of arrow 2. It is provided with a radial finger or projection I32 adapted to come into engagement with the bottom wall of a notch I33 formed in the upper part of the butt I02 when the last chamber I01 of the magazine comes finally into alignment with the gun barrel I. For reloading, the cylinder I04 is rotated in the opposite direction to the arrow I back to its original position.

The invention is of course not limited to the 3 forms of embodiment shown and described which have been given only by way of example.

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

1. A toy gun comprising in combination a gun butt, a gun barrel on said butt, a spring controlled rotatable magazine pivoted on said butt and having load chambers, propelling springs in said chambers, spring controlled detent members carried by the magazine and adapted to retain a bullet in each of the chambers in such a position that the outer end of the bullet slightly projects outwardly from the corresponding chamber, a trigger mechanism mounted in the gun and having a pushing member acting on the said detent members in succession, and an arresting lug on the rear end of the barrel with which the outer projecting ends of the bullets are adapted to engage in succession.

2. A toy gun as claimed in claim 1, in which the magazine is in the form of a flat circular segment having load chambers provided therein in radial positions.

3. A toy gun as claimed in claim 1 wherein the magazine is in the form of a revolving cylinder having parallel load chambers provided therein in axial position.

JUST WOLF.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 689,923 Simonds et a1 Dec. 31, 1901 1,302,332 Du Pont Apr. 29, 1919 1,328,929 McDaniel Jan. 27, 1920 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 115,183 Great Britain May 2, 1918