US1276308A - Toy cannon. - Google Patents

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Patented Aug. 20, 1918.

M/VE IV 70/? BYKZIWM ATTORNEY forward and backward movement 0 THOMAS RAYMOND ARDEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 ARDEN MANUFAOTUR- ING CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TOY OANN ON.

Specification of Letters Patent. K Patented Aug. 20, 1918.

Application filed May 81, ms. Serial no. 237,399.

To all whom it ma concern:

Be it known t at I, THOMAS ARDEN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York city, in the county and State offNew York, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Toy Cannon, of which the ollowin is a specification.

Ty invention relates to a toy cannon of the repeating type from which projectiles may be successively expelled by a crank operated hammer. v

The obj eot of the invention is to rovide a simply constructed toy cannon, w ich may be readily operated by a child, without dan er of injury.

The invention is illustratively exemplified in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevational View;

Fig. 2 is a substantially vertical sectional vieiw through the barrel at the rear thereof; an

Fig. 3 is a rear elevational view.

Referring to the drawing 10 denotes a tripod upon the table 11 of which a substantially yoke shaped frame 12 is swiveled by means of the stud 13. j

Fixedly supported near the upper ends of the vertical arms of the yoke 12, preferably in an inclined position, is a barrel 14 provided with the bore 15. The breech of the barrel has an aperture 16 through which projectiles, in the drawing shown as balls 17 may pass from the magazine 18 secured to the top of the barrel 14 over the aperture.

16. Near its front end the magazine is pro vided with an admission opening 19 for the projectiles 17 Traversing the vertical arms of the oke 12 near their lower ends is a stud sha 20 upon which is pivotally mounted a trigger or hammer denoted generally by the numeral 21. The head of the trigger or hammer 21 is provided with an arcuate slot 22 through which passes a pin 23, passing through the barrel 14, thereby limitm tille t e hammer head in the bore 15 of the barrel.

RAYMOND The lower portion of the barrel is provided with a slot 24 through which the hammer .flat portion 27 so as to prevent the hammer from being thrown back upon reverse rotation of the shaft 26.

Encircling the stud shaft 20 is a coiled spring 28 having a loop 29 engaging the rear edge of the hammer 21 and normally forcing the same toward the front of the cannon. The operation of the device is as follows':

A suitable number of rojectiles 17 are inserted through the opening 19 into the magazine 18.. Thereupon the, handle 27 is rotated from left to right and at each such rotation the hammer 21 will be forced'rearwardly against the tension of the spring and as the crank shaft leaves the hammer the latter will be urged sharply forward by the spring causing the expulsion of one of the projectiles 17 which has dropped into the bore 15 in front of the hammer head. The reciprocating motion of the hammer is limited by the ends of the slots 22 striking the pin 23. The movement of the hammer by reverse rotation of the crankshaft is prevented because in such reverse rotation the flat portion 27 of the crank shaft will strike the'horizontal portion of the notch 25 thereby causing an interlock of these parts.

It will be noted that the device :is an extremely simple one and that mere rotation of the crank 27 is necessary for the repeated operation of the cannon.

What I claim is A toy cannon comprising a bored barrel having a slot therein, a pin traversing said barrel, a pivotally mounted hammer having a head projecting through the slot into the barrel and an arcuate slot in the hammer I 7 names jects, there being a notch in said hammer In testimony whereof I have afixed my intermleldiate its eitllls, a spring tgndlingf to, signature in presence of two witnesses. norma y ur e sai ammer tow'ar t e or- Ward end 0 the cannon, and a crankshaft THOMAS RAYMOND E having a portion cngageable'with said notch Witnesses: for moving the hammer in the opposite di- O'rro MUNK,

rection against the action of the spring. CLARIGE FRANCK.

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