IMPROVEMENTS IN TOY ARMS AND PROJECTILES
Year: 1866

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Marc Klotz at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration,
on the 16th January 1866, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent
Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARC
KLOTZ, of 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France,
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
TOY ARMS AND PROJECTILES," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant
unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters
Patent for the same, and made solemn Declaration that I am the true and
first Juventor thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Marc Klotz, do hereby declare that
the following Complete Specification under my hand and seal fully describes
and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, that is to say :-
My Invention relates to certain improvements in toy guns, cannons,
pistols, mortars, arbalets, shooters, and toy arms in general, and also to
an improved projectile to be employed therewith.

page_text: The improved projectile is composed of steel springs or other substance
presenting sufficient elasticity, arranged so as when compressed to be intro-
duced into the barrel or tube of the arm. On these springs, which form
the skeleton of the projectile, is fixed in any suitable way a membrane of
paper fabric, india-rubber, or other analagous material in such a way as to
be easily removed and replaced by another, and to fold upon itself or shrink
up like the covering of an umbrella when introduced into the barrel or
tube. On this membrane are figures, drawings, and subjects of different
natures, and when compressed with the springs it may be arranged so as
to form a box or case for different articles. When the projectile is driven
out of the barrel the springs being no longer compressed open out with
the membrane, so that the image represented on it presents itself, or the
articles contained in it are thrown out.
The projectile, instead of being independent of the arm, may be fixed to
it, being temporarily or permanently attached to a moveable rod placed in
the barrel, the end of this rod coming towards the end of the barrel when
the arm is fired, so that the projectile developed presents itself and remains
at the end of the barrel.
I claim in consequence all improvements in the toys above mentioned,
the object of which may be to arrange or transform them in such way that
the projectile in question may be fixed momentarily or otherwise. The
object placed at the end of the rod might consist simply of an elastic or
other material, which compressed or enclosed in the barrel would open out
or distend at the end of the latter.
The Figures of the accompanying Drawing will more clearly show the
object of my Invention.
Fig. 1 represents a pistol with the projectile developed at its extremity;
Fig. 2 is a view of the projectile as compressed in the barrel of the arın;
Fig. 3 a back view, and Fig. 4a front view of the said projectile.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to applications similar to that above described and shewn
in the accompanying Drawings, as the arrangement, size, form, and mode
of fixing the springs, as well as that of the membrane or articles enclosed
in it, may be varied according to taste and convenience; but what I
claim is,―
Firstly, a projectile formed of an envelope or membrane combined with
springs, which by the compression of the latter may be introduced into the
barrels of toy arms or tubes, and which when projected from the same

page_text: develops itself so as to show a drawing, image, or figure, or any suitable
object fixed to or thrown from it.
Secondly, the improvements in toys above described, allowing o
adapting the said objects or the projectile instantaneously or otherwise.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marc Klotz, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of January, in the year of our Lore
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
MARC KLOTZ. (L.S.)