Patent ID: 8875688
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: F41B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An improved safety valve for toy air guns comprising: a housing having a valve chamber fixed within the housing, a barrel section, and a fixed air inlet port, the housing for mounting a source of compressed air; and a valve element mounted in the valve chamber of the housing, the valve element having a front section, a rear section and a wall separating the front and rear sections, the front section having structure for being engaged by a projectile inserted from a front opening of the barrel section, the valve element being movable in the valve chamber by a rear wall of the projectile in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the valve element from a closed, forward position to an open, rearward position entirely within the valve chamber, the rear section for cooperating with a spring, the spring for biasing the valve element from the rearward position to the forward position, and the front section structure being within the valve chamber at the fixed air inlet port when the front section structure of the valve element engages with the rear wall of the inserted projectile, wherein the valve element communicates the source of compressed air through the fixed air inlet port at the front section structure of the valve element to the projectile in a direction lateral to the longitudinal axis of the valve element through the front section structure forward of the separating wall.