US2703464A - Toy repeater cap pistol - Google Patents

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M. HIRSCH 2,703,464

TOY REPEATER CAP PISTOL March 8, 1955 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed July 21 1951 I l I T 1m. 28 2 26 (:3

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TOY REPEATER CAP PIS TOL Filed July 21 1951 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. MAHLOA/ H/ESCH BY M ATTOEA/EXS United States TOY REPEATER CAP PISTOL Mahlon Hirsch, Erie, Pa., assignor to. LouisMarx 8:;- Comg anyl", Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New Application July 21, 1951, Serial No. 237,880

6 Claims. (Cl. 41-57)- This invention relates to toys, especially top pistols, and more particularly to repeater cap pistols.

The primary object of the present invention is to generally improve repeater cap pistons. A more particular object is to provide a compact operating mechanism so mounted in the body of the pistol as to facilitate advance testing of the mechanism, and assembly of the pistol during manufacture. A further object is to facilitate reloading, cleaning and oiling during use. A more specifi'c object is. to provide a pistol in which the operating meehansm may be bodily swung upwardly and rearwardly about a point in the rear lower portion of the mechanism assembly, thus clearing the mechanism from its normal position between the sides of the pistol, and exposing all of the movable parts for reloading, cleaning and oiling.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a toy pistol the body of which is molded out of a suitable moldable plastic, thereby obtaining the advantages of smooth, lustrous finish, permanent attractive color, detailed configuration, and light weight, while at the same time the mechanism assembly is made out of die cast metal, thereby obtaining accurate dimension, and the strength and heat resistance of metal for the operating parts. This results in a toy combiningv plastic and metal, each used where it is most suitable, and having the optimum advantages of both.

To accomplish the foregoing general objects, and other more specific objects which will hereinafter appear, my invention resides in the toy pistol elements, and their relation one to another, as are hereinafter more particularly described in the following specification. The specification is accompanied by drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a toy repeater cap pistol made in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation similar to Fig. l but showing the mechanism assembly turned up out of the body of the pistol;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary section taken approximately in the plane of the line 44 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary section taken approximately in the plane of the line 5-5 of Fig. 1;

Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are views of the mechanism assembly removed from the body of the pistol, and showing successive stages in the operation. of the mechanism;

Fig. 9 is an elevation of the reverse side of the mechanism assembly:

Fig. 10 is a detail of the trigger;

Fig. 11 is a detail of the cap feed dog; and

Fig. 12 is an end elevation, of the same.

Referring to the drawing, and more particularly to Figs. 1,. 2 and 3 thereof, the particular toy gun here shown is a repeater cap pistol in the form of a revolver, and comprises a pistol body generally designated B and including a simulated barrel. 12', cylinder 14, grip 16, and trigger guard 18. The pistol further comprises an operating mechanism assembly A including a side plate 20 '(Fig. 3), an anvil 22, ahammer 24, a trigger 26, a cap feed dog 28, a trigger spring 30, and a main spring 32, the said parts all being mounted on the side plate 20. The resulting assembly is received between the sides of the body B when in use, as shown in Fig. 2, but may be swung upwardly and rearwardly from the body, as shown by the change from Fig. 1 to Fig. 3,, for reloading, cleaning or oiling. The pistol is further provided with mating. detent. means for holding the mechanism assembly in proper position in the body when. in use, and in the present case this is very simply provided by forming a detent projection 34 (Fig. 5) on the outer side of the metal plate 20, the said projection springing outwardly into a hollowed or recessed portion of the pistol body, which in the present case corresponds to the simulated cylinder 14;

Reverting to Figs. 1-3, the plate. 20 is pivoted in the body at a point 36 in the rear lower portion of the mechanism assembly. The pivot at. 36 may be a. pin die cast integrally with the plate 20, as is best shown inFig. 4, the ends of the pin being received'in mating sockets 38 and 40 in the plastic side walls of the pistol body.

The body B is preferably molded. out of a moldable plastic, and the mechanism assembly A is made out of metal. The metal parts may be and preferably are die cast for accuracy. The use of metal results in adequate strength for the operating parts, and good wearing quality for the moving parts, and resistance. to the high temperature which may result when exploding, caps in rapid succession.

The mechanism of the gun. is best shown in Figs. 6-9 of the drawing, referring to which the anvil 22 is. stationary, and cast integrally with the side plate 20. It forms a continuation of a: top plate 42 which acts as a part of the top wall of the gun when the pistol is in use. The hammer 24 is pivoted at 44, and is normally urged against the anvil. by means of a main spring 32-, one end 46 (Fig. 6) of which is bent about the rear edge of the hammer, and the other end 48: of which rests on the pivot pin 36 previously referred to, while the intermediate portion of the spring is coiled one or more times about the hammer pivot 44.

The trigger Z6 is pivoted at 50,. the trigger being slotted at 52 to. receive the pin 50. The reverse side of. the trig,- ger lever alone, with its slot 52', is shown in Fig. 10. The restoring spring 30 of the trigger has one end bearing against a stationary crosspiece 54 (Figs. 6-8,) cast integrally with plate 20, and has its other end 56 received in an apertured ear 58 of the cap feed dog 28, while the intermediate portion of the spring 30 is coiled one or more times about the trigger pivot pin 50. The cap feed dog 28 is stamped out of sheet metal, and is best shown in Figs. 11 and 1 2. It has a flat portion 60 which is pivoted at 62 (Figs. 68) on an arm 64 formed integrally with and projecting rearwardly from the trigger 26. Thus the-arm 64and trigger 26 form an angle lever ul hiclsizis slidably pivoted on thepin 50 by reason of the. s ot Referring to Fig. 10 the trigger includes a cocking tooth or sear 66. When the trigger is initially drawn rear.- wardly, as shown in Fig. 6,,-the slot 52 affords a rearward movement of the trigger which insures that sear. 66 comes beneath the portion or tooth 68 of the hammer. Continued pressure on the trigger causes it to turn. about the pivot 50 and thus causes cocking of the ham.- mer against the tension of the main spring, as shown in Fig. 7., in which hammer 24 has been moved back about its pivot 44 so far that the sear 66' is on the verge of, passing the tooth 68 and thus releasing the hammer. It will be understood from study of Fig. 7 that any slight additional movement of the triggerwill permit the hammer to fly forward under the force of the now tensioned', main spring 32.

When the trigger 26 is released it is turned forward by the action of the trigger restoring spring 30, which: seeks to change from the upwardly bent position shown in Fig. 7 to the downwardly bent position shown in. Fig. 8. During this movement the sear 66 readily moves past the tooth surface 68 of the hammer because the slot 52 of the trigger affords forward movement, as shown in Fig. 8. However, when the next firing pressure. is exerted on the: trigger it moves rearward, as shown in Fig. '6, thus bringing the sear 66- beneath the tooth 68.

The motion of the trigger is limited by a stationary top stop shown at 86 in Fig. 6, and a stationary bottom stop shown at 88' in Fig. 7'. Referring to Fig. 10, the back wall of the trigger has molded integrally therewith a sidewardly projecting stop pin 90, so located as to engage the top stop 86 when the trigger ispul'led back,

land ta) engage the bottom stop 88 when the trigger is reease During the cocking of the hammer the cap feed dog 28 is carried upward, as shown by the change from Fig. 6 to Fig. 7. It bears slidabiy against a stationary feed surface 70 formed integrally with the plate 20. Its en gagement with the cap strip is yieldable because the dog is held forward by a spring. For economy the trigger spring 30 is employed, the end 56 of the spring being received in the slotted car 58. This urges the plate 60 counterclockwise about pivot 62, and consequently the dog 28 forward.

Reverting to Fig. 6, a roll of caps is slid over the end of a suitable stationary locating pin 72, which is cast integrally with the plate 20. The free or outer end of the roll is passed upwardly around the feed surface 70 and the anvil 22, as is shown by the broken line 74. When the feed dog is urged upwardly, as shown in Fig. 7, it carries with it a length of the cap strip, and the feed or travel provided by the feed dog is made to correspond to the usual spacing or pitch between the spots of gun powder on the cap strip, which is substantially in the usual case.

The plate 20'has an edge wall 76 formed integrally thereon, which supplements the top edge wall 42 previ ously referred to. The hammer includes a transverse wall 78, the arrangement being such that walls 42, 78 and 76 are almost contiguous in end-to-end relation, and serve to close the relatively long open slot between the side walls of the plastic pistol body. This slot extends all the way from the point 80 (Fig. l) on top of the gun to the point 82 at the rear of the gun. The metal top edge wall 42 has a pin 84 projecting sidewardly therefrom, as is perhaps best shown in Fig. 2, the said pin being used to pull the mechanism assembly upwardly out of the gun body when it is desired to load, clean, or oil the gun.

The plastic body of the pistol is preferably molded out of two separate halves divided by a vertical plane extending medially of the gun in longitudinal direction. This is indicated by the line 92 in Fig. 2. Each half of the gun body may be molded with one-half of the muzzle sight 94, one-half of the simulated strap loop 96, and one-half of the trigger guard 18. To assemble the gun it is merely necessary to place the complete mechanical assembly in one molded plastic half of the body, with the pin 36 in the socket 40 (Fig. 4), and to then secure the other molded plastic half in edge-to edge relation with the first half by sticking the same together, as by the use of a solvent or cement applied to the meeting plastic edges. Appropriate stiffening walls may be provided transversely of the plastic body at an intermediate point, as indicated at 98 in Fig. 1, said walls meeting edge-to-edge. Accurate registration of the two plastic halves may be hastened and assured by the provision of suitable locating pins and sockets at selected points in the gun body, indicated at 100 in Fig. 1. By applying cement or solvent to these pins and sockets the sides of the gun body are additionally secured together, and indeed, if desired they alone may be cemented without reliance on adhesion at the edges of the body between the locating pins.

To prevent scorching of the plastic as a result of repeated firing of the percussion caps, the metal hammer and anvil surfaces are preferably enclosed between metal side walls. Referring to Fig. 7 of the drawing, the remoter of the two side walls is the part 21 of the extensive back plate 20 which carries all of the mechanism, this being integral with the stationary anvil 22. Referring now to Fig. 8, the hammer portion of the pivoted hammer assembly is indicated in cross-section at 24. This portion may be given a ridged or grooved front wall, as shown, and is carried by a web or wall 23 which extends downwardly to the pivot 44. and which extends upwardly and rearwardly to the transverse closure wall or edge wall 78 previously referred to. carries the thumb grip portion 25 of the hammer assembly. part 24 (indicated in part by the broken line serration) carries at its nearer end a thin flange or wall 102 extending to the left and lying in a plane parallel to the back plate 20. It will be evident from comparison of Figs. 6 and 8 that the flange 102 serves as a wall protecting the side of the plastic pistol body against direct exposure to the scorching flame or gases from a cap exploded between the anvil and hammer surfaces. A part This wall 78 Referring now to Figs. 6 and 7, the hammer of the plastic side wall is recessed toward the outside of the gun to form clearance for passage of the flange 102 during oscillation of the hammer assembly. In Figs. 6, 7 and 8 it will be understood that the flange 102, the hammer 24, the web 23, the edge or closure wall 78, the thumb grip 25, and the hammer tooth 68 are all formed integrally as a one-piece metal die casting.

No difliculty arises from defective operation of the mechanical assembly, because one advantage of the present construction is that all of the mechanism is combined in a complete unit which may be carefully inspected and thoroughly tested to make sure that it is in proper working order, before being passed on to the assembly operation.

In Fig. 3 it will be seen that when the mechanism assembly is swung outward to load a new roll of caps therein the child is protected against possible injury from operation of the trigger while the gun is open. This is so because the trigger is then drawn upwardly to a position between the sides of the gun so that it cannot be pulled. The upward and rearward swing of the assembly is limited by appropriate stop means. This may consist of a projection or tail clearly shown at the lower right-hand end of the assembly in Figs. 6-8, and in Fig. 3 it will be seen that this reaches the bottom wall of the gun when the assembly is open. The outward movement of the assembly is also arrested by reason of the fact that the peripheral wall portion marked 76 in Figs. 68 reaches the upper end of the rear wall of the pistol grip shown at 82 in Figs. 1 and 2. Either of these two stop means alone would suffice to limit the outward movement of the assembly.

It is believed that the construction, operation and method of assembly of my improved repeater cap pistol, as well as the advantages thereof, will be apparent from the foregoing detailed description. It will also be apparent that while I have shown and described my invention in a preferred form, changes may be made in the structure disclosed without departing from the scope of the invention as sought to be defined in the following claims.

I claim:

1. A repeater cap pistol in the form of a toy revolver comprising a body molded out of a moldable plastic, and a mechanism assembly made out of metal, said plastic body including a simulated barrel, cylinder, and grip, and said mechanism assembly including an anvil, hammer, trigger, cap roll support, cap feed dog, restoring springs, and a metal side plate on which all of said mechanism is mounted, said plate having a peripheral wall of substantial width disposed transversely of the plate at its outer edge conforming to and acting as a part of the peripheral wall of the gun body, and said hammer having a piece of transverse wall of similar width and so located that when the hammer is in forward position said wall acts as another part of said peripheral wall of said plate and gun body, means pivoting said mechanism assembly in said body at a point near one end of the mechanism assembly, the said assembly being received between the sides of said body when in use, and swinging outwardly about the pivot means from between the sides of the body for reloading, cleaning or oiling.

2. A repeater cap pistol in the form of a toy revolver comprising a body molded out of a moldable plastic, and a mechanism assembly made out of metal, said plastic body including a simulated barrel, cylinder, grip, and trigger guard, and said mechanism assembly including an anvil, hammer, trigger, cap roll support, cap feed dog, restoring springs and a metal side plate on which all of said mechanism is mounted, said plate having a peripheral wall of substantial width disposed transversely of the plate at its outer edge conforming to and acting as a part of the peripheral wall of the gun body, and said hammer having a piece of transverse wall of similar width and so located that when the hammer is in forward position said wall acts as another part of said peripheral wall of said plate and gun body, means pivoting said mechanism assembly in said body at a point in the rear lower portion of the mechanism assembly and at the pistol grip of said body, the said assembly being received said mechanism assembly in proper position in said body when in use.

3. A repeater cap pistol comprising a revolver type" of pistol body including a simulated barrel, cylinder, and grip, an operating mechanism assembly including a side plate carrying an anvil, hammer, trigger, cap roll support, cap feed dog, and restoring springs, said plate having a peripheral wall at its outer edge conforming to and acting as a part of the peripheral wall of the gun body, and said hammer when in forward position acting as a part of said peripheral wall of said plate, means pivoting said mechanism assembly in said body at a point in the rear lower portion of the mechanism assembly and at the pistol grip of said body, the said assembly being received between the sides of said body when in use, and swinging upwardly and rearwardly from the body for reloading, cleaning or oiling, and stop means forming a part of the assembly to limit the up ward and rearward movement of the assembly from the body, said stop means being so located relative to the trigger that the trigger is protectively housed between the sides of the gun body when the assembly is swung upwardly and rearwardly as far as permitted by the stop means.

4. A repeater cap pistol comprising a revolver type of pistol body including a simulated barrel, cylinder, grip, and trigger guard, an operating mechanism assembly including a side plate carrying an anvil, hammer, trigger, cap roll support, cap feed dog, and restoring springs, said plate having a peripheral wall at its outer edge conforming to and acting as a part of the peripheral wall of the gun body, and said hammer when in forward position acting as a part of said peripheral wall of said plate, means pivoting said mechanism assembly in said body at a point in the rear lower portion of the mechanism assembly and at the pistol grip of said body, the said assembly being received between the sides of said body when in use, and swinging upwardly and rearwardly from the body for reloading, cleaning or oiling, and mating detent means for holding said mechanism assembly in proper position in said body when in use, and stop means forming a part of the assembly to limit the upward and rearward movement of the assembly from the body, said stop means being so located relative to the trigger that the trigger is protectively housed between the sides of the gun body when the assembly is swung upwardly and rearwardly as far as permitted by the stop means.

5. A repeater cap pistol in the form of a toy revolver comprising a body, and a mechanism assembly, said body including a simulated barrel, cylinder, and grip, and said mechanism assembly including an anvil, hammer,

trigger, cap roll support, cap feed dog, restoring springs, and a plate on which all of said mechanism is mounted, means pivoting said mechanism assembly in said body at a point near one end of the mechanism assembly, the said assembly being received between the sides of said body when in use, and swinging upwardly and outwardly about the pivot means from between the sides of the body for reloading, cleaning or oiling, and stop means independent of said trigger and forming a part of the assembly to limit the upward and outward movement of the assembly, said stop means being so located relative to the trigger that the trigger is protectively housed between the sides of the gun body when the assembly is swung upwardly and outwardly as far as permitted by the stop means.

6. A repeater cap pistol in the form of a toy revolver comprising a body, and a mechanism assembly, said body including a simulated barrel, cylinder, grip, and trigger guard, and said mechanism assembly including an anvil, hammer, trigger, cap roll support, cap feed dog, restoring springs and a metal side plate on which all of said mechanism is mounted, means pivoting said mechanism assembly in said body at a point in the rear lower portion of the mechanism assembly and at the pistol grip of said body, the said assembly being received between the sides of said body when in use, and swinging upwardly and rearwardly from the body for reloading, cleaning or oiling, and mating detent means for holding said mechanism assembly in proper position in said body when in use, and stop means independent of said trigger and forming a part of the assembly to limit the upward and rearward movement of the assembly from the body, said stop means being so located relative to the trigger that the trigger is protectively housed between the sides of the gun body when the assembly is swung upwardly and rearwardly as far as permitted by the stop means.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,368,402 Kilgore M Feb. 15, 1921 2,481,301 Eulenfeld Sept. 6, 1949 2,527,254 Hjelm Oct. 24 1950 2,597,089 Everett May 20, 1952 2,621,436 Weimer et al. Dec. 16, 1952 FOREIGN PATENTS 686,559 Germany Jan. 12, 1940

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