Toy gun with spring actuated projectile propelling means

Claim 1

A TOP FIREARM COMPRISING A BARREL AND A FRAME CONNECTED THERETO, MECHANISM IN THE FRAME FOR PROPELLING A SIMULATED CARTRIDGE THROUGH THE BARREL, SAID MECHANISM INCLUDING A CARTRIDGE PROPELLING HAMMER, A PIVOT FOR THE HAMMER, SAID HAMMER HAVING TWO GENERAL POSITIONS, ONE IN WHICH IT IS RETRACTED FROM CARTRIDGE-PROPELLING POSITION AND COCKED, AND THE OTHER IN WHICH IT IS LOCATED IN CARTRIDGE STRIKING AND PROPELLING POSITION, A SPRING FOR MOVING THE PROPELLING HAMMER FROM COCKED TO CARTRIDGE STRIKING AND PROPELLING POSITION, A PIVOTED SEAR, A NOSE ON THE SEAR TEMPORARILY ENGAGING THE PROPELLING HAMMER HOLDING IT IN COCKED POSITION, A SPRING TENDING TO HOLD THE SEAR IN HAMMER COCKED POSITION, A TRIGGER, A TRIGGER PIN, INTERENGAGING MEANS BETWEEN THE TRIGGER AND THE SEAR WHEREBY THE TRIGGER UPON BEING PRESSED MOVES THE SEAR TO HAMMER RELEASING POSITION, AND A LEVER, MEANS PIVOTALLY MOUNTING SAID LEVER, MEANS PIVOTALLY MOUNTING SAID CARTRIDGE PROPELLING HAMMER ON SAID LEVER, MEANS BIASING SAID HAMMER INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID LEVER, HAMMER AND LEVER SURFACES ABUTTING EACH OTHER, SAID SURFACES BEING IN CONTINUOUS ABUTTING RELATIONSHIP AS THE LEVER IS MOVED IN ONE DIRECTION TO CARRY THE HAMMER WITH IT TO THE COCKED POSITION THEREOF ADJACENT THE SEAR, ABUTTING SURFACES BEING SEPARATED IN RESPONSE TO THE RETURN MOTION TO NORMAL POSITION SO THAT THE HAMMER STAYS IN COCKED POSITION REGARDLESS OF THE POSITION OF THE LEVER UNTIL THE SEAR RELEASES THE HAMMER.