US254200A - And cornelius blakeslee - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. ORANDAL'L.

TARGET.

PatentedvPeb. 28,1882.

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UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

JESSE A. CRANDALL, OF BROOKLYN,NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR' TO EDWARD R. IVES, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, AND CORNELIUS BL AKESLEE AND EDWARD G. WILLIAMS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,200, dated February 28, 1882.

' Application filed December 23, 1881. (No model.)

'. To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Jnssn A. CRANDALL, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved 5 Toy Target, of which the following is a specification.

Figure l is a face View of my improved target,""showing itcontracted. Fig. 2 is a face View of the same, showing it expanded. Figs.

I 3 and 4 are central sections of the bullseye part of the target.

This invention relates to a new target for use with toy guns or the like. Its object is to surprise and amuse the practitioner by a com- 1 plete transformation as soon asthe bulls-eye is hit.

The target is made with folding wings that constitute its face before it is fired at, but which, on the missile striking the bulls-eye,

are thrown back to develop an entirely new form and appearance of the target. Thus in Fig. 1 the target is shown to represent a nest on the branches of a tree; but in Fig. 2 it has assumed the form and appearance of a bird.

2 To this end the back A of the target, being a board of the requisite form, is supported on a suitable base, F, or arranged to be suspended from anail or branch. To'this back A are hinged, at a a, a series of wings, B C D E.

0 Four such wings are shown, but one only, B, may answer the purpose, or any other greater or less number than four can be employed. The wings, whatever their number, when folded over the face of the board A, as in Fig. 1,

cover the target portion of the same. The wing B is connected with a spring, b, which has the tendency to throw it up into the position shown in Fig. 2, against a branch orprojection, d, of the back A. To hold the wing 0 B over the face of A, as in Fig. 1, I employ a catch, 0, Fig. 3, which is pivoted at f to the back A, near to the opening therein for the bulls-eye. This bulls-eye is painted on a plug or button, Gr, that slides in a suitable 5 aperture or socket in the back A, and is thrown out by a spring, g, or weight, or the like, as far as a stop, h, on the plug G will permit.

This position is shown in Fig. 3. When the bnlls-eye is hit the plug G is slid backward,

and touching the pendent tail of the catch 0 throws the same off the wing B, (see Fig. 4,) thereby enabling the spring I) to throw the wing B into the open positionshown in Fig. 2.

Where four wings are employed, as in the example illustrated in the drawings, their cooperation is insured by pins or projectionsi and j. Thus the wing C, which is hinged at its upper edge, drops over the back A by its own gravity. It is raised by the projection t of the wing B, which is beneath 0 when both B and C are folded over A;but when the wing B is thrown open by the spring bit carries the wing C also into the open position by said projection i, and rests it against another branch or-projection, d, of the back A. The lower wings, D and E, unfold by gravity. Wing D is held up by an overlapping projection, j, on the wing E or on wing C, and the wing E is held up by an overlapping projectiomj, on the wing B or on wing D.

The design of the target may be greatly varied. The number of the wings and their form and design are also a mere matter of choice.

One target may have several plugs G and wings B locked by them, so that a variety of forms may be obtained in succession on the same target. The material of which the parts of the target are composed may also be left to the choice of the constructor. The wings may be applied behind the back, instead of in front thereof, and may be caused to slide, instead of being hinged.

I do not claim attaching a movable bullseye to a slide.

I claim 1. A target having one or more wings, B, overlapping its back A, and a movable bullseye or plug, G, separate from said wing or wings, and mechanism, substantially as described, for locking and moving said wing or wings, all arranged to unlock said wing or wings from said plug when said bulls-eye or plug is moved, and thento unfold said wing or wings, substantially as specified.

2. A target having a fixed body or back, A, one or more movable wings, B, means for-locking the same, and a movable plug, G, separate from said wing or wings, said wing or wings being combined with a spring, I), for moving it or them in one direction, substantially as specified.

3. The target-back A, combined with the hinged wing 13, spring I), catch a, and movable button or plug G, all arranged to operate substantially as specified.

4. The target-back A, having one or more projections, (1 in the plane of the back, combined with one or more hinged wings, catch 42, and sliding button or plug G, as specified.

5. The folding wing B, provided with spring b, and projection i, in combination with the folding wing G and supportingback A, all arranged to move the wing C by the projection i, as specified.

6. The combination, on a target, of the fold ing wing B and its holding-catch e, for holding it down, with the projection j and folding wing E, the projection j on wing B serving to hold 20 the wing E in one position, substantially as specified.

7. The combination of the back A with the hinged wings B O D E, plug or button G, spring I), for raising wing 13, rests d, for wings 25 to fold against, catch a, for locking wing 13, and projections i and j, for holding the wings G D E, substantially as herein shown and described.

JESSE A. GRANDALL.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH H. Lneenrr, JOHN DELOLISEN.

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