Marker Tag Darts, Dart Guns Therefor, and Methods
AssigneeShoot the Moon Products II, LLC
InventorsRichard Jonathan Corlett, David B. Small, Paul S. Rago
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Marker tag darts, dart guns therefor, and methods which allow a toy gun to receive a marker tag dart, to put water in the forward tip of the dart and to shoot the dart. The marker tag dart itself has slits in the wall of a small chamber at the front of the dart so that on impact with a target, the inertia of the water causes deformation of the tip and opening of the slits to eject water for marking the location of the marker tag dart hit. The dart guns are spring chocked, and propel the dart with a blast of air from an air pump powered by the spring. Various embodiments and modes of operation are disclosed.
Claims7
A marker tag water gun comprising:
- an enclosure;
- a barrel attached to the enclosure, the barrel having a first inner diameter for receiving a marker tag dart;
- an air chamber in air communication with the barrel, the air chamber having a volume variable between first and second volumes, the first volume being larger than the second volume;
- a spring elastically forcing the air chamber to its second volume;
- a manually operable air chamber cocking mechanism coupled to the air chamber for manually moving the air chamber to the first volume against the force of the spring;
- an air chamber cocking mechanism;
- a latch for releasably retaining the air chamber in its first volume.
- a water chamber for storing a supply of water;
- a water pump coupled to the water chamber, the water pump outlet being coupled to a needle for injecting water into a chamber in a marker tag dart;
- and
- a manually operable trigger disposed relative to the latch to release the latch during a motion of the trigger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.