AN IMPROVED REVOLVING PISTOL TOY
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Browne, of the Firm of Browne and
Company, Patent Agents, of 85, Gracechurch Street, in the City of.
London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED REVOLVING PISTOL TOY."-
A communication from abroad by Claude François Anatole Basset,
of Paris, France.
Sealed the 26th March 1872, and dated the 5th October 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Browne
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,.
on the 5th October 1871.
I, ALEXANDER BROWNE, of the Firm of Browne and Company,
Patent Agents, of 85, Gracechurch Street, in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for " AN IMPROVED, RE-
VOLVING PISTOL Tor," a communication to him from abroad by Claude.
François Anatole Basset, of Paris, France, to be as follows :-
The object of this Invention is to apply the principle of the well-
known revolver pistol (in which the barrel containing the projectiles

page_text: revolves) to the construction of a toy pistol for children, in which it is
discharged by percussion and central fire; but in this toy pistol the
cartridges are of paper, cloth, or other material, instead of metal.
The accompanying Drawing and description explains the construc-
tion of the improved toy referred to. Figure 1 is a side elevation of 5
the toy revolver; Figure 2, an end view of the revolving barrel;
Figure 3, a section of Figure 2 through the line A, B, at this Figure;
Figure 4, a view of the front of the disc hereafter described and
referred to. At all of these Figures the same letters of reference denote
corresponding parts.
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A marks a piece forming the stock of the toy revolver; B, revolving
barrel; C, circular ratchet fixed to B; D, disc serving to hold the
cartridges; E, the hammer; F, ratchet piece for turning round the
barrel; G, piece for lifting the piece F; H, tumbler; I, intermediate
spring between the pieces E and G, applying the ratchets upon their 1
respective pieces C and E; J, spring to return all the pieces to their
original position; K, spring to hold the barrel B steady; L, openings in
the disc D; M, recesses in the barrel B to lodge the cartridges in;
N, projections on the disc D; O, spring to hold up the disc D; P, axes
of the barrel B; Q, axes or fulcrum of the hammer; R, axes of the 2
tumbler H; S, recess rubbing or pressing against the spring O.
To charge the toy revolver constructed as above described, push one
of the recesses S upon which press the spring O so as to cover by the
interval between the two holes L upon the disc the recesses M in the
barrel B; at this moment the recesses N of the disc will uncover the 2
recess M in which the cartridges are placed. To place the disc in its
original position the recessed pieces must be pushed back, then the
holes in the disc will unmask the cartridges, and the recesses N will
hold them in place.
To operate the continual firing at several blows by pressing upon 3
the trigger H, the ratchets F and G will be lifted; F turns the barrel,
and G lifts the hammer. These two movements are made together.
When the pieces have arrived at the extremity of their respective
ranges of action the piece G escapes the tooth of the tumbler of the
hammer E; and as this last is submitted to the action of the spring J 3
it follows that it will strike upon the cartridge placed in the recess M

page_text: of the barrel. The tumbler being returned to its original position by
the spring J the movement is ready to begin again, and may be
continuously performed upon the above system.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alexander Browne in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 5th April 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
BROWNE, of the Firm of Browne and Company, Patent Agents, of
85, Gracechurch Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
the
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of October, in
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Browne, Her special
licence that I, the said Alexander Browne, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexander Browne,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVED TOY FOR CHILDREN UPON THE SYSTEM OF THE WELL-KNOWN
REVOLVER PISTOLS," a communication from abroad by Claude François
Anatole Basset, of Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Alexander Browne, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
The object of this Invention is to apply the principle of the well-
known revolver pistol (in which the barrel containing the projectiles
revolves) to the construction of a toy pistol for children, in which it is
discharged by percussion and central fire; but in this toy pistol the
cartridges are of paper, cloth, or other material, instead of metal.
The accompanying Drawing and description explains the construction
of the improved toy above referred to. Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the
toy revolver; Fig. 2, an end view of the revolving barrel; Fig. 3, a
section of Fig. 2 through the line A, B, at this Figure; Fig. 4, a view
of the front of the disc hereafter described and referred to. At all these.
Figures the same letters of reference denoto corresponding parts.
A marks a piece forming the stock of the toy revolver; B, revolving
barrel; C, circular ratchet fixed to B; D, disc serving to hold the
cartridges; E, the hammer; F, ratchet piece for turning round the
barrel; G, piece for lifting the piece F; H, tumbler; I, intermediate
spring between the pieces E and G, applying the ratchets upon their
respective pieces C and E; J, spring to return all the pieces to their
original position; K, spring to hold the barrel B steady; L, openings in 1
the disc D; M, recesses in the barrel B to lodge the cartridges in;
N, projections on the discs D; O, spring to hold up the disc D; P, axis
of the barrel B; Q, axis or fulcrum of the hammer; R, axis of the
tumbler H; 8, recess rubbing or pressing against the spring O.
.
To charge the toy revolver constructed as above described, push one
of the recesses S upon which press the spring O so as to cover by the
interval between the two holes Lupon the disc the recesses M in the
barrel B; at this moment the recesses N of the disc will uncover the
recess M, in which the cartridges are placed. To place the disc in its
original position the recessed pieces must be pushed back, then the holes a
in the disc will unmask the cartridges, and the recesses N will hold them
in place.
To operato the continual firing at several blows by pressing upon the
trigger the ratchets F and G will bo lifted; F turns the barrel, and G
lifts the hammer. These two movements are made together. When 3
the pieces have arrived at the extremity of their respective ranges of
action the piece G escapes the tooth of the tumbler of the hammer E;

page_text: and as this last is submitted to the action of the spring J it follows that
it will strike upon the cartridge placed in the recess M of the barrel.
The tumbler being returned to its original position by the spring J the
movement is ready to begin again, and may be continuously performed
upon the above system.
Figs. 5 and 6 shew a modification of the toy revolver; A and B are
two ratchet pieces mounted on the same axis; the piece A effects the
raising of the hammer, and the piece B effects the turning of the barrel ;
the movement is effected by the tumbler, which raises the ratchet
piece A until the ratchet piece B causes the barrel to turn and the
hammer to strike the cartridge; the ratchet piece A. then escapes the
tumbler, and the spring J returns them to their proper positions; O is a
spur which serves to press back the spring J, so that the hammer may
not be stopped by the friction of this spring with the ratchet piece.
When the finger releases the tumbler it is returned to its position, as
also the ratchet piece by the spring J; E, D, are the axes of the
hammer and the tumbler; G, Fig 6, is a disc replacing the system
described in the first arrangement, and is adapted to the lower
circumference of the barrel, and is sufficient to contain the cartridge.

page_text: fit, and make such alterations and changes as the working of the samo
shall require.
Having now fully described the nature and object of my said
Invention for "An Improved Toy for Children upon the System of
the well-known Revolver Pistols," together with the means by which 5
it may be effected, I would remark, in conclusion, that what I claim as
my Invention is the combination above described and shewn. The
moveable piece D serving to hold the non-metallic cartridges, which
piece can be replaced by a disc where a central percussion action is
required, or by any other suitable piece according to the kind of per- 1
cussion and the two ratchet pieces F, G, the tumbler H, and the main
spring J, as also the modified combination shewn at Figs. 5 and 6 for
the application to pistols and children's toys of the different systems of
revolver pistols turning continuously with non-metallic cartridges.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Browne, have hereunto 1
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.