Toy Firing Weapon (Patent No: 425271)

Inventor: Sobat, Dane

Location: Calgary

Comments: b Yugoslavia c1900; left wife and children in Europe c1923, never had enough money to send for; came to Drumheller 1926; injured working in mine; mine door opener deflected fresh air to where miners were working; working model of the lawn mower; developed a game called 21 but nobody would buy it, there's one in the family; returned to Yugoslavia 1897, d 1990

Description:
-CLAIMS-

Having regard to the foregoing disclosure, the patent of which this specification forms part confers subject to the conditions prescribed in the Patent Act, 1935, the exclusive right, privilege and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others to be used, the invention as defined in claims submitted by the patentee as follows:-

1. A toy firearm as described comprising in combination a chambered gun-stock piece, an axially reciprocative dummy gunbarrel, a bearing block forming part of said stock piece bearably supporting said barrel, a rotable ratchet drum transversely aligned within said chamber, striker pins radially projecting from said drum, a notched face in said barrel to receive said pins in their rotation to press forward said barrel, a spring attached to said forward bearing block and to said barrel for rapid reciprocal return of said barrel, a stop against which the butt of said barrel strikes for sound effect, and crank means to rotably operate said drum.

2. A toy firing weapon comprising a dummy gun-barrel, a chambered stock bearably supporting said barrel, means by rotable combined pin and drum within said stock and exterior cranking means to project said barrel axially a distance as limited by the movement of each said spaced pin, a pin-contacting notch in said barrel for the purpose of said projection, means within said chambered stock for retracting said barrel against a stop to imitate the sound of shell firing when the barrel is released from each advancing said pin, and a dummy sighting piece.