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US 4,225,140 AGranted
Target-type shooting toy
OwnerBruce M. D'Andrade, Kwok W. Tsuiinventors
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Abstract
A target-type shooting toy having a target area in the rear of a housing and a transparent front wall having a swivel socket in the lower portion to mount swivelly a projectile guide member including a barrel and a projectile return channel, a handle and trigger to move and aim the barrel and actuate a spring-pressed shooting plunger, and projectile return means to return spent projectiles automatically to said return channel for successive movement into the barrel for subsequent shooting. Score recording and audible hit indicating means are actuated by returning projectiles.
Claims7
A target-type shooting toy comprising in combination:
- (a) a housing adapted to be supported adjacent a horizontal surface and having a front wall including a transparent upper portion and a target area rearwardly spaced therefrom and a base wall supported on short legs for positioning said base very close to said surface,
- (b) a swivel spherical socket mounted in the lower portion of said front wall adjacent said base wall,
- (c) a generally spherical swivel member complementary to said swivel socket and mounted therein for support and provided with a projectile inlet passage means and a projectile return channel extending therefrom away from said socket,
- (d) a projectile guide member mounted upon said spherical swivel member and projecting outwardly therefrom away from said target area, said guide member having an elongated barrel fixed adjacent one side of said projectile return channel and a projectile inlet opening extending through a wall of said barrel from said return channel, (e) handle means extending laterally upward from the outer end of said projectile guide member to permit ready universal swivelling of said swivel member relative to said base wall and carry said barrel and inlet passage means therewith,
- (f) a trigger member pivoted at one end to the upper end of said handle means,
- (g) a spring-pressed plunger mounted within the outermost portion of said projectile guide member extending away from said spherical swivel member and normally covering said projectile inlet opening in said projectile guide,
- (h) plunger cocking means carried by the lower end of said trigger member and including a movable latch provided with a cam surface and engageable with said plunger and operable to move the same toward the outer end of said projectile guide member to compress said spring when said trigger member is moved in cocking direction,
- (i) a latch actuating member on said projectile guide member fixed relative thereto and engageable by said cam surface on said latch during continued cocking movement of said trigger and operable to disengage said latch from said plunger when said spring has been compressed a predetermined extent, thereby to free said plunger to discharge a projectile from said barrel toward said target area,
- (j) target means on said target area adapted to be hit by a projectile discharged as aforesaid,
- (k) projectile return means in said housing operable to return spent projectiles to said projectile inlet means, and
- (l) means opposite said projectile inlet opening in said projectile guide member operable to urge a projectile into said barrel when said plunger has been moved to compress said spring, whereby when said latch has disengaged said plunger, said spring instantly urges it in a direction to shoot a projectile toward said target.
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