Patent Publication Number: US-2023160656-A1

Title: Firing linkage mechanism of toy launcher

Description:
TECHNICAL FIELD 
     The disclosure relates to a toy gun, particularly to a firing linkage mechanism of a toy launcher. 
     DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART 
     In the industry of toy guns, besides simulated or imitation firearms, other real weapons such as rockets or rocket launchers may also be simulated or imitated to become toy in appearance. In addition, the toy gun industry may make modifications depending on different designs of appearance. 
     In the primary parts of general toy guns, besides the loading (such as the inside design of a magazine) or firing (such as firing or shooting after bullet loading) of bullets, designing parts such as triggers and firing pins associated with appearances of different simulated firearms is the most difficult part of a toy gun design. Existing parts cannot be directly applied to various simulated toy guns. More importantly, when a designer wants to simulate real weapons such as rockets or rocket launchers to be toy launchers, because the design framework of interior parts is completely different, especially the trigger and the firing position usually have to match the length of a bazooka body, those parts are not able to directly use parts of general toy guns. Thus, more costs of time and design are needed to design different toy launchers. 
     In view of this, the inventors have devoted themselves to the above-mentioned related art, researched intensively and cooperated with the application of science to try to solve the above-mentioned problems. 
     SUMMARY 
     An object of the disclosure is to provide a firing linkage mechanism of a toy launcher, which makes the moving position and the firing position of the toy launcher be unlimited to make more diverse modifications or changes to match different designs or production models. 
     To accomplish the above object, the disclosure provides a firing linkage mechanism of a toy launcher, which includes a linkage assembly, a trigger assembly, and a firing assembly. The linkage assembly has a moving end and a firing end. The trigger assembly is disposed on the moving end and has a trigger portion and a connecting portion connected with the moving end. The connecting portion drives the linkage assembly to make an axial movement when the trigger portion is acting. The firing assembly is disposed on the firing end and has a touching portion and a firing portion extended from the touching portion. The firing end of the linkage assembly is disposed with an acting portion cooperating with the touching portion of the firing assembly. The acting portion is driven to move the touching portion by the axial movement of the linkage assembly to make the firing portion implement a firing action. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG.  1    is an exploded view of the disclosure; 
         FIG.  2    is an assembled view of the disclosure; 
         FIG.  3    is a perspective schematic view of the disclosure applied to a barrel; 
         FIG.  4    is a schematic plan view of the disclosure applied to a barrel; 
         FIG.  5    is a schematic view of local operation of the disclosure applied to a barrel; 
         FIG.  6    is another schematic view of local operation of the disclosure applied to a barrel; 
         FIG.  7    is a schematic plan view of the disclosure applied to a gun body; 
         FIG.  8    is a schematic plan view of the disclosure applied to a gun body; and 
         FIG.  9    is a schematic plan view of another embodiment of the disclosure. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     The technical contents of this disclosure will become apparent with the detailed description of embodiments accompanied with the illustration of related drawings as follows. It is intended that the embodiments and drawings disclosed herein are to be considered illustrative rather than restrictive. 
     Please refer to  FIGS.  1 - 3   , which are an exploded view of the disclosure, an assembled view and a perspective schematic view of the disclosure applied to a barrel. The disclosure provides a firing linkage mechanism  1  of a toy launcher, which is used to be installed to a toy launcher such as a barrel  2  as shown in  FIG.  3    or a gun body  3  as shown in  FIG.  7    and is arranged to extend along a longitudinal direction of a toy launcher such as a barrel  2  or a gun body  3  to serve as a linkage mechanism  1  of the toy launcher at firing. The disclosure includes a linkage assembly  10 , a trigger assembly  11  and a firing assembly  12 . 
     The linkage assembly  10  may be a link (or linkage rod) for connecting between the trigger assembly  11  and the firing assembly  12 . In the design of the toy launchers, regardless of matching the appearance design of simulated weapons such as guns, cannons, or independently designed toy weapons, when the distance between the trigger position and the ammunition firing position is greater than the common condition, the linking between the trigger assembly  11  and the firing assembly  12  may be kept by the extension of the linkage assembly  10 . In the embodiment, the linkage assembly  10  is installed on an outer surface of the barrel  2 , and the linkage assembly  10  may be composed of multiple link sections. The linkage assembly  10  may be divided into a moving end  100 , a firing end  101  and an extending section  102  connected between the moving end  100  and the firing end  101  in series, and they may be connected to be a link in a detachable manner by screwing or engagement. A length of the extending section  102  may be adjusted depending on requirements of different products to make the disclosure match more diverse products to increase interchangeability and universality between components. 
     The trigger assembly  11  is disposed on an end of the linkage assembly  10  and has a trigger portion  110  and a connecting portion  111  disposed on an end of the linkage assembly  10 . The trigger portion  110  protrudes from the barrel  2  or the gun body  3  for being pressed by a hand. In the shown embodiment of the disclosure, the trigger assembly  11  is disposed on the moving end  100  of the linkage assembly  10 . The moving end  100  may be formed with a connecting trough  100   a . The connecting portion  111  is disposed in the connecting trough  100   a  to make the trigger assembly  11  move the linkage assembly  10  to make an axially forward or backward movement when the trigger portion  110  is pressed. 
     The firing assembly  12  is disposed on the other end of the linkage assembly  10  and has a touching portion  120  and a firing portion  121  extended from the touching portion  120 . The firing portion  121  reaches in the barrel  2  or the gun body  3  to be corresponding to the firing mechanism in the toy launcher (not shown in figures) so that the toy launcher may perform the shooting action for the bullets through the firing portion  121  triggering the firing mechanism. In detail, the firing assembly  12  is disposed on the firing end  101  of the linkage assembly  10 . The firing end  101  is disposed with an acting portion  101   a  cooperating with the touching portion  120 . When the acting portion  101   a  is driven by the axial movement of the linkage assembly  10  to move, the touching portion  120  is driven to make the firing portion  121  implement the firing action. In the shown embodiment of the disclosure, the firing portion  121  moves toward a direction which crosses the axial direction of the linkage assembly  10  such as a radial direction of the linkage assembly  10 . 
     As shown in  FIGS.  4  and  5   , when a user&#39;s finger presses the trigger portion  110  of the trigger assembly  11 , the connecting portion  111  moves the linkage assembly  10  to make an axially forward or backward movement (in the shown embodiment, the linkage assembly  10  is moved backward) so as to make the acting portion  101   a  on the firing end  101  of the linkage assembly  10  touch the firing portion  121  of the firing assembly  12 . In the shown embodiment of the disclosure, the acting portion  101   a  is provided with an acting slant  101   b  and the firing portion  121  is provided with a touching slant  120   a  which slidably contacts the acting slant  101   b . As shown in  FIG.  6   , when the acting portion  101   a  moves backward, the firing assembly  12  may move toward its extending direction by the acting slant  101   b  pushing the touching slant  120   a  to make a mutual slide. In other words, the firing portion  121  may make a firing action toward the firing mechanism in the toy launcher to shoot out bullets in the toy launcher. 
     Please refer to  FIG.  1   . The touching portion  120  of the firing assembly  12  is formed with a trench  120   b  for being passed by the acting portion  101   a  of the linkage assembly  10 , and the touching slant  120   a  is located in the trench  120   b  to make the acting portion  101   a  passing the trench  120   b  be able to use the acting slant  101   b  to slidably contact the touching slant  120   a.    
     In addition, as shown in  FIG.  8   , the linkage assembly  10  may also be installed on an inner wall of the barrel  2  at a proper position depending on the structure of a barrel or a gun. Further, as shown in  FIG.  9   , considering the various possibilities of a trigger and a firing position, the firing assembly  12  may be located at front of the trigger assembly  11  (in the above embodiment, the firing assembly  12  is located at back of the trigger assembly  11 ) to move the firing assembly  12  by an axially forward movement of the linkage assembly  10 . As a result, the disclosure may make the moving position and the firing position of a toy launcher be unlimited to make more diverse modifications or changes to match different designs or production models. 
     Accordingly, by the abovementioned structure, the firing linkage mechanism of the toy launcher of the disclosure may be obtained. 
     While this disclosure has been described by means of specific embodiments, numerous modifications and variations could be made thereto by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of this disclosure set forth in the claims.