Toy Air Gun and Projectile
Year: 1870

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(This Invention received Provisional Protection only)
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Robert Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
dol 21st January 1870. A communication from abroad by Henry
Josiah Griswold, of Paris, in the Empire of France.
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I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the, International. Patent Office, South-
ampton Buildings, London, Consulting Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED TOY AIR GUN, AND
PROJECTILE FOR THE SAME," a communication; to be as follows:-
وال والليل
The said Invention relates, to a toy air gun and projectile of novel
construction, which gun is not only an amusing, plaything or means of
recreation for children and other persons, but is also valuable as a means.
for strengthening the lungs and preventing pulmonary diseases; it also
serves for educating the eye preliminary to the use of fire-arms, and may
be used for that purpose under. conditions where practice with the latter
could not be conveniently had.
The said gun is discharged by the force of the lungs, and the said
Invention consists chiefly in the peculiar construction of the gun and
projectile whereby the discharge is effected without any inconvenient or

page_text: violent exertion, and in such a manner that the continued use of the gun
shall be both amusing and beneficial to the person using the same.
The said gun is made nearly of the same general form as an ordinary
fire-arm; it has a stock of wood to rest against the shoulder, and from
the said stock extends a barrel made of brass tubing or other suitable
material. From one side of the stock projects a mouthpiece, which is
so arranged that when the stock is brought to the shoulder the said
mouthpiece will lie in a convenient position for the month to be applied
thereto. This mouthpiece is connected to the rear end of the barrel by
a tube which lies within the stock; this tube, which forms a con-
tinuation of the barrel, may be of metal or may be a piece of india-
rubber or other flexible tubing. At the rear end or breech of the barrel
is an aperture for the introduction of the projectiles, and this aperture is
closed by a sliding piece, which is fitted to move endwise on the barrel
to open and close the said aperture. At the rear or other convenient
part of the stock is a chamber or magazine for containing a number
of the projectiles, which chamber is provided with a plug or stopper
to close the end thereof;
The body of the projectiles is a hollow conical piece of india-rubber or
other flexible or elastic material; at the small end or apex thereof the
projectile is provided with a metal pin or point. When air is forced
into the barrel the conical piece is expanded and fills the barrel without
binding tightly therein; consequently, none of the force is wasted-by the
escape of the air between the barrel and projectile, and the full power
of the lungs is advantageously expanded in the propulsion of the
projectile.