US370532A - Toy blow-gun - Google Patents

Description

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TOY BLOW GUN.

(No Model.)

Patented Sept. 27, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDXVARD I. EVATT, OF LA GRANGEVILLE, NEW YORK.

TOY BLOW-GUN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,532, dated September 27, 1887 Application filed February 10, 1887. Serial No. 227,119. (No model.)

To aZZwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD I. EVATT, of La Grangeville, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toy Blow- Guns, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of one of my improved toy blow-guns. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation of the same shown arranged for use as a blow-gun.

The object of this invention is to provide improved toy blow-guns constructed in such a manner that they can be adjusted for use as a toy gun for playing soldiers, or as a blowgun for shooting a dart at a target, and which shall be simple in construction and not liable to get out of order.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

A represents a small metallic tube eighteen inches (more or less) in length, open at both ends, and with a smooth bore. The tube A can have a point, B, upon one side at one or bolth ends to represent the sight of a gunbarre O is the stock, which is made of heavy wire bent into the shape of the outline of a gunstock. The end of the wire forming the stock 0 is extended forward and is bent into coils D, at a little distance apart and of such an internal diameter as to receive and fit upon the tube A, so that the said tube can slide in the said coils. These coils form an uninterrupted passage for the barrel, in which it is held and may be adjusted.

If desired, the interior of the coils D can be packed or lined with leather or other suitable material, to prevent the polish of the tube A from being marred by the friction of the coils D.

With this construction the tube A can be slipped forward in the coils D of the stock G into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to adapt the implement to be used as a toy gun in playing soldiers, or slipped back in the coils D into the position shown in Fig. 3, to adapt the implement to be used as a blowgun. The latter arrangement brings the rear 7 end of the tube A a little in the rear of the stock 0, so that the user can apply his mouth to the said rear end of the said tube and blow through it, so as to expel a dart, E, placed in the said rear end of the tube with sufficient force to strike and stick into a target of soft wood or other suitable material.

The dart E is formed by attaching a. tuft of yarn to the head of a pin, as indicated in Fig. 3.

While it is preferred to form the stock of wire, it will be understood that I do not limit myself in this respect.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a stock having an uninterrupted passage, of a barrel projecting at both ends through said passage and adjustablelongitudinally therein, substantially as set forth.

2. In a toy gun, the combination, with the barrel, of a stock in which the said barrel is adjustable longitudinally from the rear of said stock to the forward part of the body portion thereof, substantially as described.

3. A stock formed or provided with loops on the upper side, in combination with the barrel adjustable longitudinally in said loops over the rear of the stock, substantially as shown and described.

4. A skeleton stock formed or provided with loops on an extension thereof, in combination with the barrel longitudinally adj ustable in said loops, substantially as shown and described.

5. A toy blow-gun made substantially as herein shown and described, and consisting of a tube, A, provided with a wire stock, C, having coils D formed upon the forward-projecting end of the wire to receive the said tube, as set forth.

6. In a toy gun, the skeleton stock formed of the wire bent, as shown at C C G, to form the body of the stock, the forward end of adjustable therein and having a sight, servthe wire being coiled to form the connected ing also as a stop to limit its movement, subbarrel-supporting loops, substantially as set stantially as set forth.

forth. EDWARD I. EVATT. 5 7. The combination, with the stock having Witnesses:

an unimpeded passage, of a barrel extend- JAMES T. GRAHAM,

ing through said passage held longitudinally O. SEDGWIOK.

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