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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
CARL B. OSBORN, OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS.
TOY CANNON.1,175,803.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Mar. 14,1916.
Application filed June 23, 1915. Serial No. 35,832.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, CARL B. OSBORN, a
citizen of the United States, residing at San
Marcos, in the county of Hays and State of
5 Texas, have invented new and useful Im-
provements in Toy Cannon, of which the
following is a specification.
This invention relates to improvements in
toy cannons and has particular application
10 to a magazine cannon.
In carrying out the present invention, it
is my purpose to provide a toy cannon which
will be found especially useful by children
and whereby marbles and analogous spheri-
15 cal objects may be fed to the barrel of the
cannon automatically in the use of the can-
non and fired from the barrel to the delight
and entertainment of the child.
It is also my purpose to provide a maga-
20 zine toy cannon wherein the range of the
cannon may be varied so that objects at dif-
ferent distances from the cannon may be
struck by the missiles discharged therefrom.
A further object of my invention is to
25 improve and simplify the general construc-
tion of devices of the class described and to
provide a toy cannon wherein the compo-
nent parts will be so arranged and corre-
lated as to reduce the possibility of derange-
30 meant to a minimum, and which will operate
efficiently and effectively for its intended
purpose.
With the above and other objects in view,
the invention consists in the construction,
35 combination and arrangement of parts here-
inafter set .forth in and falling within the
scope of the claims.
In the accompanying drawings; Figure 1
is a view in side elevation of a magazine toy
40 cannon constructed in accordance with my
present invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal
sectional view therethrough. Fig. 3 is an
enlarged fragmentary longitudinal sectional
view through the barrel and associated
45 parts. Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary
longitudinal sectional view through the can-
non, showing the mechanism controlling the
discharge of the missiles from the cannon.
Fig. 5 is an enlarged side elevation of the
5o range varying mechanism. 1ig. 6 is an end
view of the same. Fig. 7 is a sectional view
on the line 7-7 of Fig. 3. Fig. 8 is a simi-
lar view on the line 8-8 of Fig. 4. Fig. 9
is a sectional view on the line 9-9 of Fig.5.
55 Referring now to the drawings in detail,
1 designates % wheeled carriage comprisinga body having a substantially horizontal
front portion 2, a depending portion 3 at
one end of the front portion 1 and a rear-
wardly extending substantially horizontal 60
portion 4 projecting rearwardly from the
lower end of the depending portion 3. This
body is preferably, although not necessarily,
formed of two strips of material 5 secured
to each other and held spaced apart by 65
means of spacers 6, and secured to the body
at the juncture of the front portion 2 with
the depending portion 3 is an axle 7 and
journaled upon the outer ends of the axle 7
are supporting wheels 8. 70
9 designates the barrel of the cannon,
which barrel is in the form of an elongated
tube having the upper surface thereof
formed, at the breech end, with an opening
10. Slidably mounted within the breech 75
end of the barrel is a projector tube 11 hav-
-ing the discharge end thereof open and the
rear end closed by means of a cap 12 and
formed in the projector tube 11 is an open-
ing 13 adapted to register with the opening 80
10 in the barrel when the projector tube is
in normal position. Mounted upon the bar-
rel 9 is a relatively short magazine tube 14
having the front end thereof terminating
behind the discharge end of the barrel and 85
the rear end opening into the barrel by way
of the opening 10 and formed with a curved
end wall 15 acting to guide the marbles or
other missiles in the magazine tube through
the opening 10 and the opening 13 in regis- 90
tration with the opening 10 into the projec-
tor tube 11. Secured to the lower surface
of the barrel 9 is a tube 16 and slidably
mounted within the tube 16 is a piston 17,
while connected with the piston 17 is a pro- 95
pelling rod 18 projecting outwardly through
the rear end of the tube 16 and having the
rear end thereof bent at right angles to itself
and extended upwardly as at 19. The up-
wardly projecting portion 19 of the propel- 100
ling rod is connected with an eye 20 secured
to the cap 12 closing the rear end of the pro-
jector tube 11. Encircling the propelling
rod 18 within the tube 16 is a coiled expan-
sion spring 21 having one end abutting the 105
piston and the remaining extremity in en-
gagement with the rear end wall of the
tube 16. In this instance, the tubes 14, 9 and
16 are fastened to one another by means of
straps and are mounted between the strips 110
at the front portion 2 of the body of the
carriage and secured to such strips,
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Osborn, Carl B. Toy Cannon, patent, March 14, 1916; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth857958/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.