Improvements in connection with Toy Guns.
Year: 1895

page_text: .Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 12th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 19th Sept.,, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Toy Guns.
JAMES CARPENTER, 28, Portland Street, Southampton, England, Mechanical
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide an improved toy gun for the purpose
of practising shooting. I provide a box or rest suitable to support one end of the
gun upon for the purpose of shooting at moveable objects.
The said box or rest is provided with a bearing or support corresponding to a
ball bearing or swivel at the muzzle end of the gun, so that as the eye follows
the object the gun is turned by the hand and fired.
The gun may be a spring gun or air gun or toy gun of any other suitable
kind.
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I, JAMES CARPENTER of 28 Portland Street, Southampton, England, Mechanical
Engineer, 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 has for its object to mount a toy gun so that it may be used
for practising shooting and at the same time serve for use as a game of skill.
I will describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in
which
Figure 1.is a plan, of a device constructed according to my, said invention.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section on the line. 2-2 of Figure 1, and
Figure 3 is a view of the device, partly in end elevation and partly in transverse
section on the line, 3-3 of Figure 1..
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the different figures of the
drawing:-
According to this invention I provide a box or rest A for supporting the
gun B at or near its muzzle end, and upon which the said gun is capable of
being adjusted or "trained" for the purpose of shooting at moving and other
objects.
A convenient way of fitting the gun B to the rest A is by means of two
pivots or trunnions 6 provided on the gun barrel, and two slotted plates c¹ c³ and a
perforated spring plate ca secured to the rest A. The plate c is supported on
posts at a distance away from the plate so as to admit of the muzzle of the
gun being inserted between them as shewn in the drawings. The slots c³ cº in the
plates are T-shaped so as to admit of the gun B being first moved in
the direction of its length during which movement the trunnions b move along the
slot-portions and then partially rotated, during which movement the trunnions b
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page_text: turn in, and become disengaged from, the slot-portions this being the opera!
necessary for releasing the gun from the rest A.
For connecting the gun B to the rest A the last described operation is revered.
The spring plate automatically engages with the uppermost of the trunnions b
when the gun B is being connected to the rest A and when it is necessary to
release the gun from the rest the said spring plate must first be raised out of
engagement with the said trunnion b.
By means of the foregoing arrangement the gun may be adjusted to shoot
in various directions as indicated for example in full and.dotted lines in Figure 1.
I prefer to construct the rest A in the form of a board, over which marbles D D!
or other devices may be caused to run so as to present moving objects or targets
for the marksman to shoot at. A convenient way of carrying this out is to arrange
the rest A on an incline as shewn in Figure 2-so that the marbles D D' will run
along it by gravity and to enable the marbles to cross the "
range of fire" I
provide diagonal or inclined grooves a. These grooves a at their upper ends
terminate in shallow recesses a in either of which the marble D may be lodged
and for the time being retained stationary and from which the said marble may be
dislodged by the marble D' adapted to run down either of the grooves a³. The
marble D is prevented by the stops E from following the marble D along the
grooves a, the said marble D' being larger than the openings through the stops
these latter however admitting of the marble D striking against the marble D
with the force necessary to dislodge it from the recess a!.
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upper end of
In using the before described device the marble D which may be egarded as
and termed a "rabbit," is lodged in one of the recesses a¹ and the other marblo D!
which may be regarded as and termed a dog," is released at the
the groove a in line with the said recess. When the marble
stop E, it will knock the marble D'out of the recess a' and the
"fire
at the last named marble while it is running along the diag,
groove a.
"
reaches the
arksman will
al or inclined
For providing a fixed target the marble D may be lodged in a hole or
recess a³.
The propelling agent of the gun may be a spring, compressed air, or any other
suitable medium and the means for swivelling the said gun to the rest A may be
other than that previously described.
:
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be..performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
let. The combination with a box or rest, of a toy gun pivotted' at its muzzle
end to the said box or rest substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described.
2nd. The combination with a toy gun of a rest constructed and arranged sub-
stantially as and for the purpose herein before described with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of August 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.