US355976A - Toy target - Google Patents

Description

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- I. W. ORANDALL.

TOY TARGET.

No. 355,976. Patented Jan. 11, 1887.

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No. 355,976. Patented Jan. 11; 1887.

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NITE STATESv PATENT Ottica@ Y FRED V. ORANDALL, OF MONTROSE, PENNSYLVANIA.

TOY TARGET..

SPECIFICATION forming partiof'Letters Patent No. 355,976, dated January 1l, 1887.

Application tiled August 7. 1856. Serial No. $210,312. (Model.)

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Beit known that I, FRED W. CRANDALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montrose, in the county of Susquehanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in rfoy Targets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to those toy vehicles in which the propelling power is a springshaft wound up by means of a cord.

Myimprovementconsists in combiningwith a spring shaft or axle provided with drivingwheels and suitable truck or frame a target provided with a detachable bulls-eye, which releases the 'shaft when struck by a missile,

the shaft causing the target to advance toward the operator for resetting.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figurel is a front elevation of my improved toy target. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same, the position of the bulls-eye when released being indicated in dotted lines.

A is a shaft having a central orifice, ct, and

and journaled in bearingblocks C.

B are driving-wheels supporting the shaft and keyed thereto so as to turn therewith.

D is a bolster supported on a reach, E, provided with pilot-wheels F and secured by a pivot-bolt, G, the bolster supporting the bearing-blocks. To the bolster D and to the bearing-blocks is secured a target, H, having any desired representation, though I here show the representation of a walking Polar bear, and any desired shaped opening in which fits a similar-shaped bulls-eye, though I have here shown a heartshaped opening in which fits a heart-shaped bulls-eye, I. Beneath the bulls-eye is secured an elastic cord, J, carrying a return ball, K, at its outer end, forming a missile by which the bulls-eye may be disconnected from its opening, the bullseye being held in the opening by friction.

As means for rotating the shaft and thereby advancing the target I provide a pair of rubber bands, L, secured to a fixed part of the frame and threaded through the side orifices, a', of the shaft. "Io the central portion of the shaft, through the orifice a, I attach a set-cord, M, which I wind around the shaft a number of times and then secure it to the rear of the bulls-eye, so that by pulling on and unwinding the cord the sha-ft is rotated and the rubber bands are stretched and lapped around the shaft and the latter wound up, the cord being secured (until. it is desired to release the shaft) to some xed object.

To cause the target to recede instead of advance, the cord is wound on the shaft in the opposite direction to that shown, and thus laps the rubber bands also in opposite direction to that shown.

I have shown the outer ends of the bandsL secured to the rear side of the target near the top by means of staples N, through which they are threaded and to which they are tied; but it is obvious that other simple means may be employed for this purpose.

The manner of securing the inner ends of the bands to `the shaft provides ready means for adjusting the tension. thereof between the shaft and their outer ends.

The. reach carrying the pilot-wheels Ycau be adjusted so as to guide the target in any direction.

To set the target, the operator takes hold of the device with the left hand, face down,'and wheels from the operator. rlhe cord is next seized with the right hand near the bulls-eye and pulled until the cord is all unwound from the shaft or axle. With the second finger of the'left hand the operator reaches through the hole for the bullseye in the target, draws the cord tight and through the hole, and with the right hand replaces the bulls-eye and presses it in tight, As soon as the bulls eye is struck, and thereby removed, the shaft is released and the target advances toward the operator for resetting; or, if the cord and bands are wound on the 'shaft in the opposite direction to that shown, the target will recede 'instead of advance.

The friction which holds the bulls-eye and" cord is so arranged that when the target is hit at a given point by means of the return ball or other missile-such as an arrow projectile from a gun, or other meansthe friction is removed,the set-cord released, and by means of the contractile forceof the bands motive IOO power is applied to the target, and it moves on the floor.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination; with a suitable truck, spring-shaft, and driving-Wheels, of a target having a detachable bnlls-eye and setcord connected to the bnlls eye and shaft7 substantially as described,

2. The combination of' the spring-shaft A, drivingwheels B, jonrnal-bloeks C, bolster D, reach E, pilot-Wheels F, pivot-bolt G, target H, having detachable bulls-eye and set-oord connecting the shaft with the. bullsseye, sub- I5 stantially as described.

3. The combination of a truck, a springshaft having driving-wheels, a target having a detachable bnlls-eye, a set-cord connecting .the shaft to the bnlls-eye, and a return ball 2o secured to the target, substantially as described.

F. NV. CRANDALL. Vitnesses:

F. G. WARNER, An D. BIRCHARD.

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