Shooting toy

This invention relates to a shooting toy and, in particular, to one including a base plate, two imitation figures, two guns and several pictures. When the imitation figures are pressed down to the end of a respective hollow barrel, air will be pressed into the guns through a pneumatic pipe and push a suction cup out to suck a picture out from an outer rotating shell to enjoy shooting fun.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
Numerous toy factories, for example in Taiwan, disappeared from the market 
last year owing to the rising rate of NT Dollars. Some of them have closed 
their production lines and some have announced bankruptcy. It is obvious 
that the situation will very likely become even worse. 
The inventor of this invention, therefore, has invented this shooting toy 
which is believed to be enjoyable, inexpensive and very attractive to 
children. 
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
It is the primary object of the present invention to provide a shooting toy 
which is attractive to children; 
It is another object of the present invention to provide a shooting toy 
which is inexpensive to produce; 
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a shooting toy 
which is easy to produce.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
Reference is now made to FIG. 1. The shooting toy illustrated therein 
comprises a base plate 1, two imitation FIGS. 12, two guns 5, an outer 
rotating shell 4, several pictures 42 and a transmission device 3 
(illustrated in part by broken lines). The base plate 1 has a platform 15 
at middle position, with two slant troughs 14, one each on either side of 
the platform 15. Two round plates 11 and two walls 13 are disposed as 
shown on opposite sides of the platform 15. 
Each of the two imitation FIGS. 12 holds a gun 5 with its arms and sits on 
a stand 111 which is placed on a helical spring 112. Pressing down of the 
imitation FIG. 12 on its stand 111 will compress the helical spring 112 
thereunder down into a hollow barrel 113 in the upper one third inside of 
the hollow barrel 113 and leave the other two thirds space of the hollow 
barrel 113 to accommodate the compressed ring spring 112 
A separate pneumatic tube 56, best seen in FIGS. 3-6, having one end 
connected to the bottom of the round plate 11 is connected at its other 
end to each gun 5. Each of the guns 5, as best seen in FIG. 1, has a 
casing 51, a barrel 52, a spring 53, a suction cup 54 and firing pin 55. 
The outer rotating shell 4 (see FIG. 2) has several troughs 41 for 
accommodating respective ones of pictures 42 and covers an inner rotating 
shell 17. A transmission device 3 (see FIGS. 1 and 8) includes a battery 
31, a motor 32, an inner gear 33, an outer gear 34 and a crown gear 35. 
This transmission device is placed under the base plate 1 and on a 
foundation plate 2. 
FIG. 2 is the perspective view of an assembled toy constructed in 
accordance with the present invention. 
With reference now to FIG. 3 the stand 11 is seen disposed in the top one 
third of the hollow barrel 113 and the remaining two thirds of the space 
in the hollow barrel 113 is filled with the ring spring 112. 
FIG. 4 shows the stand 111 pushed down into barrel 113, at which time, air 
will be passed through pneumatic tube 57 into the gun 5. This air 10 will 
push the firing pin 55 forward which then presses the spring 53 forward 
and pushes the suction cup 54 on a rod projecting outwardly of the gun 5. 
FIG. 5 and 6 illustrate a reverse movement. FIG. 5 has the suction cup 54 
on the rod stretched out because of the air pressure from the pneumatic 
tube 57. However, when the pressing force from the stand 111 is removed as 
indicated in FIG. 6, the ring spring 112, because of its elastic force, 
will push the stand 111 upward and this causes air to be returned to the 
hollow barrel 113, and suction cup 54 retreats to its original 20 position 
into the barrel 52 of the gun 5. 
Reference to FIG. 7 discloses a schematic diagram of the circuitry of the 
present invention. When switch 16 is turned to the right position, a 
signal will be transmitted from the positive terminal of the battery 31 to 
LED1 161 which will then be illuminated and a current will keep on flowing 
to drive the motor 32 (shown in FIG. 8) then through the points B to D to 
C then to A (best seen in FIG. 7) and return to the negative terminal of 
the battery 31. This current to the motor 32 will drive the motor to 
actuate the inner gear 33, the outer gear 34 and the idle gear 35. The 
idle gear 35, upon being driven, will actuate the inner rotating shell 17 
and the outer rotating shell 4 to rotate them clockwisely. Should the 
switch 16 be turned to the left position, the current, as can be seen from 
FIG. 7, will illuminate LED2 162 and drive the motor 32 which will actuate 
the inner gear 33, the outer gear 34 and the idle gear 35. The idle gear 
35, at this moment, will drive the inner rotating shell 17 and the outer 
rotating shell 4 to rotate counterclockwisely. 
FIG. 9 is a side elevation view of the present invention. As seen therein, 
upon pressing either of the FIGS. 12 downward, air will pass through the 
pneumatic tube 57 into the corresponding one of the guns 5 and will push 
the firing pin 55 forward which, then, will push the spring 53 forward and 
force the suction cup 54 in stretched out manner to suck a picture 42 out 
from the outer rotating shell 4. Upon the pressing force on the imitating 
FIGS. 12 being removed, the elastic force of the corresponding ring spring 
112 will force the stand upward to its original position in the upper one 
third of the hollow barrel 113, air will flow back into the hollow barrel 
113 and the suction cup 54 will be retreated into the barrel 52, whereupon 
the sucked out picture 42 falls down and the user will have accomplished 
the shooting mission.