Dispensing – Simulations – Firearms
Reexamination Certificate
2005-11-12
2010-11-23
Tran, Len (Department: 3752)
Dispensing
Simulations
Firearms
C239S333000, C239S373000, C239S463000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07837067
ABSTRACT:
Toy water guns include a housing supporting a liquid storage reservoir, a conduit for establishing fluid communication between the reservoir and a discharge orifice disposed proximate a front end of the housing, a trigger mechanism, a fluid transfer system adapted to develop forces for causing a continuous or pulsed stream of liquid to flow through the conduit and out of the discharge orifice when the trigger is pressed. An illustrative embodiment employs a nozzle translation assembly that is dimensioned and arranged to move the discharge orifice along a time varying path relative to the housing as a stream of liquid is discharged. The time varying path may be circular, as to obtain a helical or spiral flow pattern or non-circular as to obtain, for example, a zig-zagging or figure eight pattern.
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Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP
McGraw Trevor E
Though Development, Inc.
Tran Len
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