US775974A - Toy torpedo-exploder. - Google Patents

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No. 775,974. PATENTBD NOV. 29, 1904.

7 s. T. HUTOHINSON.

TOY TORPEDO EXPLODER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2. 1903.

NO MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented November 29, 1904:.

SEARCY T. HUTOHINSON, OF SAN ANTONIO, .l.lilXAS.

TOY TORPEDO-EXPLODEH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,974, dated November 29, 1904.

Application filed September 2, 1903- Serial No. 171,650. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that l, SEARoY T. H UTC i-nNsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Toy 'lorpedo-Exploder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to toy torpedo-exploders, and has for its objects to produce a device of this character of simple construction which will be eflicient in operation and one in which the torpedo will be positively exploded through the relative movement of the body and hammer and this wholly through the momentum or gravity of the body when the device is thrown from the operator, thus entirely dispensing with the employment of springs or analogous operating mechanism, with a consequent reduction in the cost of manufacture and liability of the parts becoming disarranged or defective in use.

To these ends the invention comprises the novel details of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a section centrally through the same. Fig. 3 is a similar View showing the parts in firing position.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates the body of the device composed oi. any suitable material, but preferably of metal, and in the form of a ball or sphere. This body has formed therethrough a main central opening 2 and a secondary lateral opening 3, disposed at right angles to the opening 2 and co1nmunicating therewith, the main opening being enlarged adjacent to its normally lower end, thus 'prodi'lcing an upper seat or anvil 4:, which is accessible through the opening 3 and is designed to receive and sustain the caps or torpedoes which are to be exploded.

5 is a hammer or member which preferably extends through and is slidabl y disposed within the opening 2 and is provided adjacent to its normally lower end with a laterally-extended portion or striker 6, which during the operation of the device, as hereinafter explained, retreats into the enlarged portion of opening 2 and acts upon the anvil L for em downward through the body 1 to the position shown in Fig. 2, in which position it will be maintained by the cord 7 at its point of attachment with the member, entering the mouth of the opening 2 and frictiol'ially binding the hammer member therein. A cap is then insorted through the opening 3 and placed in position upon the anvil 4t. The operator,

having previously engaged the handpiece 8,

throws the ball or exploder from him, and. when the device reaches the limit of its movement, determined by the length of the cord, the hammer will be moved forcibly through the body, owing to the momentum or gravity of the latter carrying it onward and brought into contact with the cap upon the anvil 4t, thus exploding the same.

From the foregoing it will be seen that l producea device of simple construction which will be ellicient in operation and in which a spring or other mechanism liable of incoming disarranged or defective in practice i s entirely dispensed with, while at the same time the cost of the device is reduced to a minimum. In at taining these ends it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details herein set iorth,inasmuch as minor mechanical changes may be made therein without dowrting from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim is-- In a device ol the class described, the combination with a body adapted to be impelled through the ai r and having a main opening pro vided with an enlarged portion, of an anvil, Formed within the body adjacent to the normally upper end of the enlarged portion of the opening, said body also having a secondary lateral opening communicating with the main opening adjacent to the anvil, a member or hammer disposed for reciprocation within the main opening, said member being extended at its upper end beyond the body and having a lateral extension or striker lying Within the enlarged portion of the opening beneath and adapted to act upon the anvil, afiexible operating element connected with the upper extended end of the member, said body being adapted, when the motion of the device through the air is checked, to travel forward upon the member and, to thereby bring the striker into forcible contact with the anvil for exploding a torpedo, and means for temporarily locking the body and member relatively to maintain the striker remote from the anvil until the motion of the device is checked.

in testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own 1 have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

SEARGY T. HUTGHINSON.

itnesses:

J. W. VANHAM, A. R. MAURER.

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