Abstract: Muzzleloader systems including a pre-packaged propellant charge with a primer and receptacle. The muzzleloader system may include a propellant containment vessel separate from the primer and the projectile and that doesn't contact with the projectile until assembly. The muzzleloader may be rear loading, with a constriction portion forward of the breech chamber. The propellant containment vessel may include a body portion having a forward opening, with a propellant charge disposed therein and a cap portion that is crimp rolled within the mouth of the vessel to seal the forward opening. The closed end of the propellant containment vessel may define a primer receptacle configured to receive the primer. The receptacle may define a depth that is less than the primer height so that, when inserted into the receptacle, the primer extends rearwardly beyond the containment vessel. The muzzleloader system may be configured to fire only specifically configured propellant containment vessels.

Abstract: A cylinder accommodation magazine is provided for containing at least one cylinder. The magazine includes a magazine body and a cylinder chamber. The magazine body includes at least one cylinder container. The cylinder chamber is disposed at one end of the magazine body and away from the at least one cylinder container. A shape of the cylinder chamber conforms to a shape of the at least one cylinder container so as to selectively receive the at least one cylinder, thereby containing more projectiles and achieving easy arrangement of the projectiles.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a beverage dispenser formed in the shape of a gun.

Abstract: A game device that safely emulates a game of Russian Roulette using balloons and the method thereof. The game device resembles a revolver, but without a barrel, and with the muzzle adjacent the cylinder. The game device contains a protected pin instead of a bullet for puncturing a balloon. An expandable ring is rotatably mounted adjacent the muzzle of the device that allows exposure of the pin only when a fully blown balloon is positioned therein to be punctured. Upon actuation of the pin, it is only exposed for a very short period of time to further prevent unnecessary exposure and injury to the user.

Abstract: The invention is a lock for a gun that locks the trigger so it cannot be moved. The lock fits between the trigger and the trigger guard and keeps the trigger from moving. One of the unique features of the lock is that it can be locked both by a key and a padlock. The lock is comprised of two sections that in the preferred embodiment are made out of plastic which are attached together by a flexible strip of plastic and, thus, can be molded as a single piece. In approximately the middle of both sections is an opening. In this opening is placed the lock cylinder with a pin. From the end of the lock cylinder extends a loop with a sufficient size opening that a shackle of a padlock can be placed through it. To use the lock, one places the two sections together between the trigger and the trigger guard and then inserts the key into the lock cylinder and turns it. Once the pin falls in the proper location, the lock is securely held together between the trigger and trigger guard such that the trigger cannot be moved.

Abstract: A removable cylinder for a revolver according to the present invention includes a plurality of cartridge chambers, each appropriately sized to receive a blank cartridge therein. The cartridge chambers are sealed at their distal end to prevent debris from a fired blank cartridge from entering the revolver barrel. The cylinder may further include passages (e.g., vent ports or grooves) in communication with the cartridge chambers to vent exhaust gases released from the blank cartridges in response to revolver actuation. The revolver may further include a laser transmitter assembly to project a laser beam toward a target in response to revolver actuation to simulate firearm operation.

Abstract: A housing structure for a hydrostatic machine comprising two shells of part-cylindrical form. The shells are connectable together at their junction surfaces on a parting-plane. A drive-shaft is supported in the housing structure and its axis of rotation lies on the parting-plane, this being the axis of symmetry of the shells. The shells are identical in cast shape, and have symmetrically arranged recesses and surface features to either side of said axis of symmetry. In the interior chamber between the shells, working component elements of the machine are located and driven by the drive-shaft to convert mechanical power into hydraulic power passing through openings or fluid-passageways provided in the housing structure.

Abstract: A microassay card includes an upper layer containing wells for receiving a liquid sample. A second layer of the card, beneath the first layer, includes a supporting surface bound to a reactive species. A third layer includes a superabsorbent support impregnated with an indicator. Typically, the indicator is a substrate for an enzyme, such as a reduced dye precursor and a source of hydrogen peroxide necessary for the action of the enzyme upon the substrate to cause a spectral change in the absorbent layer. By selecting the structure of the first and second layers, the card can be formatted for a displacement assay or a competitive assay. The microassay card of the present invention is particularly useful for drug testing.

Abstract: A replaceable firing mechanism for a toy gun which is housed in a case having a pair of symmetric halves that are secured together by a number of screws and a revolving cylinder having a plurality of chambers housing confetti in various shapes and colors is disposed in front of the case and can be revolved and actuated by the firing mechanism to discharge the confetti. The present firing mechanism is characterized in the ready and easy replacement thereof. When a toy gun is out of order in the firing mechanism and must be fixed, the only procedure taken is to replace the old case with a new one. For the firing mechanism housed in a case can be exchanged between a line of standardized toy guns so that the cost of production of the guns can be effectively lowered, and the maintenance thereof is also made easy.

Abstract: The present invention is a toy cap gun, which includes a gun housing having a forward end and a rearward end, a chamber, a barrel, a cap anvil, a hammer and a trigger. The chamber is formed of material which permits light from a cap firing flash to be visible therethrough, and the chamber further contains an effective amount of a glow in the dark material. Further, the chamber is movably located within the housing and the chamber and housing together are adapted to load and unload caps. The barrel is located at a forward end of the housing and the chamber. There is a rotatable cap anvil which is located on a rearward end of the chamber, extending into the chamber and adapted to hold caps. The hammer is located on the housing, is connected to a trigger mechanism and is located adjacent to the cap anvil for intermittently striking and detonating caps. There is a trigger mechanism extending from the housing and functionally connected to the hammer for intermittently impacting the hammer to detonate caps.

Abstract: This invention relates to a toy pistol with a ball bullet and in particular to one characterized in a ball bullet which will rotate in unison with a bullet seat when the trigger is pressed and which will produce a cracking noise as the hammer hits thereon. Hence, the pistol may produce continuous cracking noise without replacing bullets.

Abstract: A device in the form of a hammer or firing-pin, movable angularly, with an arched attachment forming a piston, the cylinder being extended like an arched recess with its axis almost coinciding with that of the articulated joint of the hammer, and with the spring for acting on the piston acting on the said device by urging it angularly.

Abstract: A split die (12) has a removable split die insert (40) to make it adaptable for receiving different types of ferrules. A ferrule (72) and tube (70) to be attached thereto are received into a cavity (42) in insert (40). Tube (70) indexes on a radial shoulder (76) in ferrule (72). A drawbolt (20) with an elastomeric expander (38) thereon is positioned inside tube (70) with its shaft (22) extending outwardly and through an anvil insert (52, 62). The outer end of the expander (38) is prevented from extruding along drawbolt (20) by a split ring (36). The inner end of expander (38) is contained by portions of the anvil insert (52, 62). In one embodiment, shaft (22) extends through a machined bearing surface (56) in insert (52). A boss (54) on insert (52) extends into ferrule (72) and abuts the inner end of expander (38) to contain expander (38).

Abstract: A toy cap gun having a chamber which amplifies sound and illuminates the flash from detonated caps. The chamber is attached to the barrel and gun in one embodiment in a manner permitting its complete removal from the gun. A spindle means enshrouded by the chamber is used for holding and rotating the caps to be struck by the gun's hammer and the position of the spindle means inside the chamber produces a dramatic sound and light effect when the caps are detonated.

Abstract: Ammunition for a toy revolver comprises a disk structure provided with a plurality of angularly equispaced capsules containing explosive charges (rounds) and adapted to register with anvils of a barrel for firing. The number of capsules is twice that of the number of seats within which each of the anvils is provided. The side of the disk opposite the percussion side is formed with at least two projections each of which is adapted to engage in one of the seats between a wall thereof and the anvil. Thus the projections lie to one side of the anvil during the firing of alternate capsules and the disk can be angularly spaced relative to the barrel to dispose the projections on the opposite sides of the respective anvils and cause the remaining capsules to be aligned with the anvils and to be fired.

Abstract: A toy gun of the revolver type which is capable of employing various types of ammunition and incorporating in the head of the cylinder a plurality of chambers having a rod in each chamber functioning as a percussion anvil for cup like ammunition, and including at least a perimetral non-circular shoulder inscribed in a polygon. The number of the sides of the polygon is a submultiple of the anvils to assure the angular positioning of a laminar ammunition. The laminar ammunition is a sandwich construction with explosive charges held between two layers and spaced from each other angularly and radially from the center so as to conform with the anvils of the gun and presents a profile of its external perimeter and/or of a central hole to complement a corresponding profiled shoulder associated with the cylinder head of the gun to position the charges on the anvils.

Abstract: A toy weapon, for example a toy pistol, comprises a magazine cylinder for disc-like ammunition comprising an annular array of charges. The ammunition can be loaded into the cylinder in any angular orientation and co-operates with an anvil formed by an annular array of pointed projections. The spacing of the projections is smaller than that of the charges so that at least one projection is aligned with at least one charge, irrespective of the angular position of the ammunition. The successive charges are exploded by means of a trigger-actuated hammer.

Abstract: A starter gun adapted for selectively firing blank cartridges and providing effective tear gas dissemination capability. The starter gun may comprise a pistol or revolver, and includes structure in the firing chamber and barrel thereof preventing use with conventional projectile ammunition.