Mechanical guns and projectors – Spring – Elastic band
Patent
1987-02-17
1989-02-28
Reese, Randolph A.
Mechanical guns and projectors
Spring
Elastic band
124 17, F41B 708
Patent
active
048075850
ABSTRACT:
A rubber band powered gun includes a barrel assembly within which a projectile traveller slides between a cocked position and a release position. A singulator also slides in the barrel assembly and feeds a single projectile from a magazine to the traveller each time the traveller moves from the release to the cocked position. A slide, movably mounted on the barrel assembly, engages and moves the traveller to the cocked position. At the cocked position, the slide disengages the traveller and is movable toward the release position. A rubber band is connected between the traveller and the slide for exerting an elastic force directed toward the release position on the traveller at the cocked position in response to movement of the slide toward the release position. A trigger is provided for retaining the traveller at the cocked position while the slide moves toward the release position. A mechanism retains the slide at the release position. The trigger releases the traveller from the cocked position and the traveller is accelerated by the rubber band toward the release position. A projectile deposited in the traveller by the singulator is projected on an exit trajectory out of the barrel when the traveller is stopped at the release position.
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Beckwith John O.
Gegere Michael A.
Reese Randolph A.
Ricci John A.
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