Backward momentum transferring mechanism for toy gun

• US 8,449,346 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2010
• Issued: 05/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tsung-Ming Lee
• Original Assignee: Tsung-Ming Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Tsung-Ming
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Gene
• Assistant Examiner(s): NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R
• Application Number:
  US12/961,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20120138038A1
• Time in Patent Office: 903 Days
• Field of Search: 124/1, 124/80, 446/405, 446/406, 434/18
• US Class Current: 446/405
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 5/04 Pistols or machine guns operated without detonators; Crackers cracker bonbons A63H37/00
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 33/06 Recoil simulators
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 11/644 having an additional slidable mass moving in the opposite direction to the piston, e.g. for recoil reduction

Abstract

A toy gun includes a housing; a barrel extending forwardly of the housing; a motor in a pistol grip; a speed reduction gear in the housing and operatively connected to the motor; a bullet loading unit in a forward end of the housing; a spring biased piston in a fixed cylinder of the housing; a trigger for activating the motor for firing; and a backward momentum transferring mechanism partially disposed in a gunstock and including an intermediate weight, a forward sliding rod disposed rearward of the piston, and a rear recoil spring having a front end urging against a rear end of the weight and a rear end urging against an internal wall in the gunstock. The sliding rod is disposed in the housing and spaced apart from the weight. The backward momentum transferring mechanism can simulate recoil by generating a recoil shock.

Claims

1. A toy gun comprising:

a housing;

a bullet loading unit in a forward end of the housing;

a piston in a fixed cylinder of the housing;

a gunstock coupled to the housing; and

a backward momentum transferring mechanism partially disposed in the gunstock and including an intermediate weight, a sliding rod disposed rearward of the piston, and a rear recoil spring having a front end urging against a rear end of the intermediate weight and a rear end urging against a stop wall formed in the gunstock;

wherein the sliding rod is disposed in an initial position prior to operation of a trigger of the toy gun, the first position being between the piston and the intermediate weight and spaced apart from the intermediate weight, the space between the sliding rod and the intermediate weight being devoid of other elements, a front end of the sliding rod engages with the piston, and a rear end of the sliding rod extends into the gunstock;

wherein the sliding rod is driven with the piston from the initial position into contact with the intermediate weight to generate an audible metallic sound, and displaces the intermediate weight against a bias force of the rear recoil spring responsive to operation of the trigger of the toy gun to compress the rear recoil spring and thereafter transfer a backward momentum to the gunstock.

2. The toy gun as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sliding rod is a spring biased rod.

3. The toy gun as claimed in claim 2, wherein the spring biased rod comprises a receptacle, a helical spring disposed in the receptacle, and an elongated rod partially disposed in the receptacle and having an end engaged with the helical spring, such that the elongated rod is adapted to slide relative to the receptacle.

4. The toy gun as claimed in claim 3, wherein the receptacle is formed with a hollow space and the helical spring is disposed in the hollow space of the receptacle.