Water gun with a retractable spring loaded shield

• US 20070056986A1
• Filed: 09/12/2005
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jakks Pacific, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Jakks Pacific, Inc.
• Inventors: Berman, Stephen
• Granted Patent: US 7,658,302 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 222/79
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 9/0018 the gas being compressed utilising a manual piston pump
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/12 for smallarms; for light-rocket launchers shields attached to smallarms F41C27/04

Abstract

A retractable spring loaded pop-up shield for a water gun. The shield can assume one of two positions of either a folded, reclined position or of an unfolded, upright standing position.

Claims

1. A shield for a water gun, comprising:

a water gun having a top surface;

a housing mounted on said top surface of said water gun, said housing having a plurality of slots, said housing having a button thereon and a lever;

a shield having a plurality of ribs so that said shield foldably collapse within folds of said ribs into a retracted foldable position or expandably unfold from said folds of said ribs into an upright standing, unfolded position;

a spring mechanism located within said housing, said spring mechanism adopted to be activated by said button being pressed so that said shield goes from said folded retracted position to said unfolded upright standing position; and

said lever being adapted to interact with said spring mechanism where said lever is slidably moved in a direction forward of said water gun so that said shield goes from said unfolded, upright standing position to said folded, reclined position.

2. The shield according to claim 1 wherein said shield has six ribs and said housing has six slots.

3. The shield according to claim 1 wherein said shield is made of PVC material.

4. The shield according to claim 1 wherein said spring mechanism includes a vertical spring adapted to interact with said button and a horizontal spring adapted to interact with said lever.

5. The shield according to claim 1 further comprising said housing has two clips and said top surface of said water gun has two slots each adapted to receive a respective one of said two clips of said housing.

6. The shield according to claim 1 wherein said housing is made of plastic.