Improvements in Shooting Games.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shooting Games.
We, OTTO CONRAD KRAUSE of Bosenstrasse, Zwickau, Germany, Merchant,
and FRIEDRICH ARNO HÜLLER of Kyffhäuserstrasse, Dresden-Striesen, Germany,
no occupation, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:
This invention relates to a shooting game or shooting apparatus which is
designed for entertainment in private residences and in public places such as
hotels, restaurants and the like.
The apparatus comprises a casing fitted with suitable reeds or other sound giving
media for imitating the cries of animals when certain targets or buttons are hit, a
figure of an animal adapted to fall down, plates having pictures or the like thereon
adapted to spring out from concealing screens, an air gun in the form of a siege
cannon capable of being pointed in the required different directions, a portable
table on which the canon and the casing are carried, a stand for said table, and a
mechanism by which the plates or pictures or figures after being displaced, by
their respective targets or buttons being hit by shots from the cannon, are brought
back to their original position.
The shooting game or apparatus is shewn in the accompanying drawing in which
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the same with the air gun or cannon removed.
Fig. 2 a side elevation with the gun in position.
Fig. 3 a sectional view of the. casing and a view of the mechanism therein as
seen from behind.
Fig. a cross sectional view of the casing shewing two targets or buttons, one
for releasing a holder containing prizes, sweetmeats for instance, and the other for
releasing a figure of an animal so that it may fall down.
Fig. 5 is another cross sectional view with two other targets or buttons with the
mechanism in connection therewith, the oue serving for the release of a distended
bellows for producing an animal like cry and the other for releasing a picture or
figure so that it may spring out from behind its screen..
Fig. 6 shews in section a portion of the casing and a target or button arranged
for the release, when hit by a shot, of a plate or picture.
Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 3 but with the prize holder left out and some of
the parts of the mechanism in a different position.
Fig. 8 is a back view of the front side of the casing with a plate and other
details gerving to replace the pictures, figures, etcetera, after these have been
actuated from the targets or buttons.
E is the casing containing mechanism for operating plates, figures, etcetera and is
fixed on the table N, this latter being removably held on the stand A by the
fork O. 1 to 6 are the targets, or buttons, or points, to be aimed at, each of
which releases its mechanism upon being hit by a shot from the cannon B.
1 (Fig. 1) is the button of the sliding picture G and 5 that of the sliding picture D
the one G being shewn in dotted lines concealed behind its screen and the other D
as withdrawn from its screen and exposed to view.
The buttons 2 and 4 when hit by a shot act to release from the distended state
the two bellows I used in the production of the animal cries. The button 3 when
hit releases the prize holder H (Figs. 2, 3, 4) so that this may spring upwards.
The button 6 disengages the figure of an animal T turning on an axis y and by the
action of a spring e caused to perform a backwardly falling movement.

page_text: Fis n bandle located at the front end of the table N by the turning of which
handle right or left the several released plates or figures may be returned to their
original positions. i are holes in the casing E fitted with suitable reeds or other
sounding devices for producing by means of the air from the bellows, animal like
cries, or the reeds inay be placed on the bellows inside the casing and the holes i
fitted with wire net work as shewn.
Upon being hit the buttons 1,5, which are each held by a light spring 7 fixed to
a screen plate 8 are pressed by their rear conical points against a knob 9 (Fig. 6)
carried at the end of an arresting spring 10, this latter then going back aud
releasing the slide or figure plate D or G to be drawn upward by its corresponding
spring (Figs. 3, 7). The plates D, C, are ench guided in their upward move-
ment by two screws or sturls a fixed in the same, and taking into two slots c in tho
front side of the casing E said pairs of studs being connected by two stays at
somewhere about the middle of which the levers 7 are engaged by means of screws
or studs which take through slots in said levers and are fixed in the stays f, said
levers serving to reinstate the figure plates. When the haudle F is turned to the
right or left, the crank disc m (Figs. 3, 5, 7) in connection with the same through
a rod h, is also turned. This movement is transmitted through the connecting rod o
to the metal plate P' which by means of screws or studs engaging in slots p is
adapted to slide in front of the levers g. The plate l' after being drawn down is
reinstated in it upward position by the springs. are studs which in the
downward movement of the plate P effected eflected through rods h, o, carry with
them through the levers g, the raised plates D, G, so that the spring knobs 9, may
again pass through said plates.
T
The animal figure or plate T, falling backward when the button G is hit and
thereby forced back, is reinstated in position by the lever, r which is normally held
upwards by the spring e. being pressed down in the downward movement of the
plate P, said lever being in direct connection with the animal plate through a
stud 11 which when the lever is pressed down brings the plate T so that the button 6
may engage in the same (Fig. 4).
The two bellows I are released from the distended position shewn in Fig. 3 when
the buttons 2, 4, nre hit (Figs. 1, 5) said buttons being held ench from a spring 12
fixed inside the casing E, and pressing each by an extension the catches ir,
backward so as to set free the studs 14 fixed in the bellows and engaged by the
hooks of the catches e respectively. The bellows are then closed up by the
nction of the springs whereupon by means of sounding reeds fixed in the air
holes of the same, the desired animal cry is given. The reinstatement or distension
of the bellows is effected also from the slide plate P and through levers 15
(Figs. 3, 5, 7) and the studsz fixed in said plate, the levers 15 being mounted in
the casing like levers 7 and acted upon in the same way by the studs :.
When a shot strikes the button 3 corresponding to the prize container H the
rod 16 extending from the button presses back a pin 18 against the resistance of a
spring 17. The pin consequently passes into its housing 19 within the container
which is then forced upwards by a spiral spring Lont of the container casing R
(Fig. 4). The container may be reinstated by pressure with the finger so that the
pin 18 enters into engagement with the outer casing R. Instead of sweetmeats
and the like for prizes, the container H may be furnished with a mechanically
working figure or puppet which being projected upwards to the outside of the
casing E may there go through dance or other movements, also the plates D, G,
which are exposed to view when the corresponding buttons are hit, may at any time
be furnished with fresh pictures.
.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
A shooting game in which a gun B with a casing E or other suitable appliance
furnished with the targets or points to be aimed at such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, are

page_text: located upon a portable table or board N and in which, figures or objects such as
D, G, H, I, T, are reinstated in position for repeated use for shooting purposes by
means of mechanism operated from the position of the shooter in front of the table,
substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 27th day of February 1896.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.