Patent ID: 7878106

Claim:
A firing control mechanism used in an air-soft toy gun, comprising a bolt, a hammer, a trigger, a switch, a hammer hook, a continuous firing control rod, said hammer having a hooked portion located on a bottom side thereof for hooking by said hammer hook and an axle, a ratchet wheel mounted on said axle of said hammer and rotatable on said axle in one single direction, said ratchet wheel having at least one series of shadow and deep teeth arranged around the periphery thereof at one side, each said series of teeth comprising two shadow teeth and one deep tooth, a pawl provided at one side of the hammer hook for engaging said ratchet wheel, said switch comprising a link, said link having at least three cuts, the position of said at least three cuts being changed relative to said hammer hook, said pawl and said continuous firing control rod when said switch is rotated, said hammer hook, said pawl and said continuous firing control rod each having a bearing portion respectively controllable to engage one said cut for entering one of single shot firing mode, 3-shot continuous firing mode, multi-shot continuously firing mode and safety lock mode; wherein said ratchet wheel has a plurality of sloping teeth equiangularly arranged around the periphery thereof at an opposite side relative to said at least one series of shadow and deep teeth, the number of said sloping teeth being equal to the total number of the teeth of said at least one series of shadow and deep teeth; said hammer has a stop rod meshed with one said sloping tooth of said ratchet wheel, said stop rod of said hammer being shifted into mesh with a next sloping tooth of said ratchet wheel to prohibit reverse rotation of said ratchet when said hammer is returned after a forward rotation subject to a hammering action of said hammer.