Water gun and target combat game set

• US 4,743,030 A
• Filed: 09/03/1986
• Issued: 05/10/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Empire Manufacturing, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Buddy L Corporation
• Inventors: Auer, Robert T., Keats, Richard L.
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAPIRO, PAUL
• Application Number:
  US06/903,151
• Time in Patent Office: 615 Days
• Field of Search: 273/349, 273/378, 273/346, 273/347, 222/79, 434/22, 434/19, 434/23, 434/327, 434/328, 434/329, 434/331
• US Class Current: 273/349
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/0428 being squirted
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0685 having a message becoming legible after a chemical reaction or physical action has taken place, e.g. applying pressure, heat treatment, spraying with a substance, breaking microcapsules use of microcapsules for duplicating paper B41M5/165
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/02 Shooting or hurling games throwing-implements for sports or recreational use A63B65/00; throwing or projecting toys per se A63H33/18; gun simulators F41A33/00, e.g. light- or radiation-emitting guns F41A33/02; practice apparatus for gun-aiming F41G3/26, e.g. using a light-emitting device F41G3/2616; targets, target ranges, bullet catchers F41J, photo-electric hit-detector systems F41J5/02
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 9/0031 the liquid being pressurised at the moment of ejection
• CPC Class Codes: F41J 5/24 Targets producing a particular effect when hit, e.g. detonation of pyrotechnic charge, bell ring, photograph

Abstract

A simulated combat game set in which the players are provided with toy water guns and each player wears a target. When a gun is fired by a player it shoots out a beam of water, each player trying to hit a vulnerable site on the target worn by an opposing player and thereby strike him out. To this end, the vulnerable site on the target is constituted by a plaque or label having printed thereon a strike symbol or other hit indicator covered by a mask that conceals the indicator. The hit indicator is rendered readable only when the mask is made wet and transparent by a water beam impinging thereon.

Claims

1. A combat game set comprising:

A. a battery-powered toy water gun having a water pump operated by a direct-current motor connected to the battery by a trigger-actuated switch which when fired by a trigger operation shoots out a beam of ordinary water; and

B. a target wearable by the player having a plaque thereon constituted by a base sheet having a strike symbol printed thereon which is concealed by a masking layer formed by a cover sheet laminated to said base sheet which when dry is effectively opaque and is effectively rendered transparent to expose the symbol only when the making layer is rendered wet by the water beam whereby the exposed strike symbol indicated a hit, said target being dimensioned to shield from water a relatively large area of the player'"'"'s body, said masking layer, when thereafter dry, again concealing the strike symbol whereby the plaque is repeatedly reusable, said cover sheet being formed by a transparent sheet whose outer surface is coated with a dispersion of fine acrylic silicate particles that diffuse light when dry, and are rendered transparent when wet.

2. A game as set forth in claim 1, wherein said gun produces a water beam formed by a series of water pulses.

3. A game as set forth in claim 1, wherein said gun is provided with a barrel, a handle and an ammunition clip and has a battery-operated motor which drives a water pump that draws water from a reservoir when the trigger is actuated and forces the water through an outlet tube in the barrel of the gun terminating in a nozzle from which the beam is discharged.

4. A game as set forth in claim 3, wherein the battery is disposed in said handle.