Patent GB-898456-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for amusement or playing a game simulating shooting
IPC: A63F9/02
Filed: 1958-08-13
Abstract: 898,456. Shooting games. CROMPTON, A. J. L. Nov. 2, 1959 [Aug. 13, 1958], No. 26013/58. Class 132(2) Apparatus simulating shooting comprises a moving target, concealed contacts moving with the target, a plunger co-operating with the contacts and moved in synchronizm with an imitation rifle and a hit indicator electrically connected through the contacts, plunger and trigger mechanism of the rifle so that it will signal a hit if the trigger be operated while the aim is correct. An imitation rifle 7 is universally mounted at one end of a base, the lower end of its pillar having fixed thereto an arm 8 fitted with a spring-loaded plunger 9, the trigger 59 being adapted to close a switch 58 when pulled to supply current to the plunger. In a back box 3 are mounted three imitation bears 5 each provided with a target shot 4 and pivoted at 6 to supports 33. The bears are so arranged that they are moved transversely to and fro and turned about at the ends of their traverse so that they always face in the direction in which they move. When a "hit" on point 4 is scored with the bear upright,it is automatically swung to horizontal position and vice versa. Plungers 9 co-operate with a panel 10 which is reciprocated transversely with the bears and carries, for each bear, a set of three contacts 11, 12, the contact 11 corresponding to the upright position and the contacts 12 corresponding to the horizontal positions depending on which way the bear is facing. The apparatus may be coin freed. A "hit" sounds a bang and lights a lamp. "Shots" and "hits" are totalized. Moving targets. The bear supports 33 are carried on spindles 32 mounted in an angle iron 15 running on rollers 15a carried by fixed members 16. The lower ends of spindles 32 are mounted in a barrel 24 fixed to a panel 40 which has a pin 17 co-operating with a fork 18 reciprocated by a motor-driven cam 21 so that the bears 5 are moved transversely to and fro.. In channel 24 is disposed a rack 25, the ends 26 of which are connected by crossed springs 27 to opposite side walls of the apparatus. The rack meshes with pinions 31 carried by shafts 32 and is engaged by one or other of pivoted catches 28 mounted on the channel. As panel 40 and channel 24 are moved say to the right in Fig. 3, the left-hand spring 27 is stressed because left-hand catch 28 engages the end of rack 25. When the panel reaches the end of its travel, left-hand catch 28 is swung up by abutment against stop 30 to release the rack which is moved to the left by left-hand spring 27 to rotate the bears through 180 degrees to face the direction in which they are about to go. The right-hand catch 28 then drops down behind the other end of rack 25 to hold it in position till the bears have moved across the back box in the other direction. If a bear is "hit" when upright (the middle bear in Fig. 3), a solenoid 34 is energized to move its armature 34a out of the path of armature 35a so that spring 41 can raise shaft 36 to swing the bear 5 downwards about pivot 6. If the bear in the right-hand position of Fig. 3 be hit, solenoid 35 is energized, to pull down its armature 35a and shaft 36 so that the bear is restored to upright position in which it is locked by engagement of armature 34a above armature 35a.