Improvements in Toy Fire Arms or Guns.
Year: 1895

page_text: I HENRY MARRIOTT PAGET of 34 West Kensington Gardens London Artist do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to toy fire arms or guns, such as are sometimes sold with
boxes of tin soldiers.
As heretofore generally made, such fire arms are intended to be charged with
gunpowder and any missile that would go into the barrel which system is of course
very dangerous and quite out of the question as a toy for small children, or as an
alternative to the gunpowder, spring action is sometimes used as the projecting
power.
Under this invention a realistic flash and report from the muzzle of the gun may
be obtained and at the same time a perfectly harmless but efficient bullet or projectile
may be thrown at a low velocity.
To this end the noise and flame may be produced by an ordinary percussion cap
placed within the barrel in a manner analogous to that in which a cartridge is placed
in an ordinary breech loading gun or rifle. A seating or nipple adapted to only
partially fill such cap may be made by means of a fixed or removable piece which
only partially closes the barrel. The breech block and hammer is suitably pivoted
and is carried back to half or full cock against spring action, a releasing or firing
trigger being of course provided.
The projectile is placed upon the block and hammer which is adapted to receive it
and such projectile is thrown over the barrel as the cap is fired.
Dated the 10th day of December 1895.
WOLTIVATION.
Improvements in Toy Fire Arms or Guns.
I, HENRY MARRIOTT PAGET formerly of 34 West Kensington Gardens, but now
of 76 Park Road, Haverstock Hill, London, Artist, 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 toy fire arms or guns, such as are sometimes sold with
boxes of tin soldiers.
As heretofore generally made such fire arms are intended to be charged with
gunpowder and any missile that would go into the barrel, which system is of course
very dangerous and quite out of the question as a toy for small children, or as an
alternative to the gunpowder, spring action is sometimes used as the projecting
power.
Under this invention a realistic flash and report from the muzzle of the gun may
be obtained and at the same time a perfectly harmless but efficient bullet or
projectile may be thrown at a low velocity.

page_text: To this end the noise and flame may be produced by an ordinary percussion
cap placed within the barrel in a manner analogons to that in which a cartridge
placed in an ordinary breech loading gun or rifle. A seating or nipple adapted to
only partially fill such cap may be made by means of a fixed or removable piece
which only partially closes the barrel. The breech block and hammer is suitably
pivoted and is carried back to half or full cock against spring action, a releasing
or firing trigger being of course provided. The projectile is placed upon the block
and hammer which is adapted to receive it, and such projectile is thrown over the
barrel as the cap is fired.
In the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is an elevation partly in section of a toy cannon made in accordance with
this invention.
Fig. 2 is a plan view also partly in section.
Fig. 3 is an end view on an enlarged scale of the breech and nipple piece, and
Fig. 4 is a plan view of such nipple piece.
In said drawings the breech A is slotted to receive a removable nipple piece B
which may be pivoted to the barrel, or loosely connected thereto in order that an
exploded cap may be readily removed therefrom. Said nipple p.ece B only partially
fills the barrel thus permitting the smoke and flame to pass out of the muzzle in a
realistic manner.
The hammer and breech block C is pivoted at D, and provided
with a cross bar E which engages in recesses F in trigger frame G as said breech
block is drawn back. Frame G is pivoted at H, and is normally held in its raised
position by spring action, here shown as consisting of an elastic band I passed
beneath said frame and over a cross bar J carried in frame or trail K. Breech
block C also carries pins L and projecting plate M for the purpose of receiving the
ball or projectile N.
The operation is as follows:-
The breech block being drawn back to the position shown in full lines the
projectile N is placed in position and a cap put upon nipple B. The firing pin O on
frame being then depressed against action of spring I, bar E is released from recess F,
and breech block C is drawn rapidly forward by actuating spring P which is
attached thereto and to the fixed frame as shown, and the cap is exploded at the
same time that the projectile is thrown, the breech block being shown in the position
indicated by dotted lines.
The invention may of course be applied to other forms of toy fire arms than
.cannon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In toy fire arms or guns the combination with the barrel of a nipple only
partially closing said barrel, a breech block adapted to throw the projectile above
said barrel and at the same time to explode a cap, substantially as set forth.
2. The improvements in toy fire arms or guns substantially as hereinbefore
.described.
Dated the 10th day of October 1896.