US 4,223,658 AGranted

Elastic band projecting toy gun

OwnerPaul Sundstrominventor

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Abstract

A toy gun which is capable of firing a plurality of elasticized bands, either singularly or in rapid succession, and which is operative so that each one of a plurality of elasticized bands is stretched under the tension of its own elasticity along a projectile path longitudinal with the gun between a point of anchorage at the forward end of the gun and a rotatable escapement wheel at the rearward end of the gun so that, when the escapement wheel is permitted to rotate under the influence of a rotational bias provided by the force of the previously loaded elasticized bands upon the release of a trigger mechanism, the elasticized bands are consecutively released from engagement with the escapement wheel to be propelled along the projectile path and forwardly of the gun. The wheel includes a plurality of spaced apart radially extending sections that have successively increasing radii over substantially the entire outer-most periphery of all of the sections.

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Dependent claims

A toy gun capable of propelling a plurality of elasticized band projectiles singly or in rapid succession comprising:

an elongate body member including forward and rearward ends and a projectile path therebetween;
a biased trigger mechanism mounted on said body member;
a rotatable escapement wheel rearwardly mounted on said body member having plural means normally engaged with said trigger mechanism to selectively prevent rotation of said wheel, said wheel further including radially extending means for individually engaging a plurality of projectiles;
and
a projection forward of said body adapted to releasably retain projectiles, said plural means being positioned to selectively permit rotation of said wheel to successively expel projectiles stretched between said projection and said wheel along said path, said wheel comprising a plurality of spaced apart radially extending sections having successively increasing radii around substantially the entire outermost periphery of the wheel (all the sections) and said wheel being biased by projectiles, when loaded, in a direction counter to the direction of increasing radius.

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