An Improvement in Toy Pistols or Guns.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Jan., 1890-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Toy Pistols or Guns.
I JOHN AMOS CAVE of 25 Red Cross Street, in the City of London, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved toy pistol or gun of the kind composed
chiefly of a wire bent somewhat to the shape of a fire arm and having upon the
straight member of the wire a spiral spring actuating a striker sliding upon the
said wire. The striker is adapted to engage with a combined detent and trigger
formed by a portion of the wire frame constituting the handle whereby the spring
is retained in the compressed condition until it is desired to discharge the toy.
The object of the invention is to adapt the pistol or gun to fire paper caps or
amorces and also to propel peas, pellets, darts or other missiles. For this purpose
the straight member of the wire frame upon which the striker slides terminates in
a barrel to receive the missile, the breech end of the barrel being provided with
an anvil and clip for holding the amorce.
The spring actuates a striker sliding on the wire frame as above mentioned, the
striker being guided by the barrel and serving to eject the missile therefrom and
being provided with an arm adapted to strike and explode the amorce held in the
clip in contact with the anvil. Or the striker instead of acting directly on the
amorce and missile may be made in two parts, the one part having only a slight
sliding motion and being in contact with the amorce and with the missile and being
struck by the other part when the toy is discharged.
Dated this 21st day of May 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Toy Pistols or Guns.
I, JOHN AMOS CAVE, of 25, Red Cross Street, in the City of London, Manu-
facturer, 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:
My Invention relates to an improved toy pistol or gun of the kind represented
in the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1
shews the toy pistol full size, the striker being "cocked." Figure 2 is a side view
partly in section, of part of the pistol, drawn to a magnified scale; and figure 3 is
a corresponding face view of the clip for holding the amorce.
The toy pistol or gun is composed chiefly of a frame A formed of steel wire bent
somewhat to the shape of a fire-arm and secured by a clip A' and having upon it a
spiral spring b actuating a striker e sliding upon the straight member a of the wire
frame. The striker c engages with a notch or detent d formed on a sort of spring
trigger e whereby the spring is retained in the compressed condition until it is
desired to discharge the toy. This trigger is formed by the end of the part of the
wire which forms the handle of the toy, the wire being bent to the shape shewn
and flattened from f to g to give it the necessary flexibility, so that a pull on the
crook of the trigger shall disengage the detent from the striker.
The object of the invention is to adapt the pistol or gun to fire paper caps or amorces
and also to propel peas, pellets, darts, or other missiles. For this purpose a barrel B, to
receive the missile, is attached to the straight member a of the wire frame, the breech

page_text: end of the barrel being provided with a clip h for holding the amorce in position to be
struck and exploded by the striker. The striker c slides on the wire a, as above
mentioned, and is partly guided by a wire i rivetted to the striker and by which the
missile is ejected from the barrel. The striker is provided with a nib c adapted to
strike and explode the amorce held in the clip h. The barrel is formed of a strip of
sheet metal bent to a cylindrical form and it is conveniently attached to the wire a by
being lapped round a part a² of said wire which has previously been flattened as
shewn in figure 2 so as to keep the barrel rigidly in position. The clip his carried
by a plate H which forms the anvil upon which the amorce is struck. It is stamped
up as shewn in section in figure 2 and by the shade lines in figure 3 so as to stiffen it
sufficiently to enable it to resist the blows of the striker. This plate closes the breech
end of the barrel and has a guide hole in it for the wire i.
The striker, instead of acting directly on the amorce and missile, may be made
in two parts the one part having only a slight sliding motion and being in contact
with the amorce and with the missile and being struck by the other part when the
toy is discharged.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe that I
am aware of the Patent granted to D. B. W. Sladen No. 16808 of 1887; and I declare
that what I claim is
The herein described improved toy pistol or gun comprising a combined spring-
actuated striker and missile ejector in combination with an amorce holder and barrel,
as herein described.
1000
1 day of January 1800.
J. A. CAVE.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.