Slingshot with pellet magazine

Claim 2

A slingshot comprising a one-piece stock embodying a handgrip having upper and lower ends and said upper end being provided with a complemental fork embodying a pair of companion arms and a crotch portion joining the respective lower end portions of said arms, a sling embodying a pair of duplicate elongated pullresponsive elastically stretchable tubes having forward and rearward ends, pellet pocketing and releasing means having end portions to which the respectively cooperable rearward ends of said tubes are operatively connected, said pellet-pocketing means comprising a flexible pliant strap which when doubled upon itself midway between its ends provides opposed coordinating halfportions defining a pouch in which a plurality of pellets can be collectively nested, grippingly held, and aimed at a target, the interior surfaces of said half-portions being equipped with fastening means, said strap being made of a length of pliant leather and said fastening means comprising tapes attached to said interior surfaces and arranged in coacting upper and lower paired face-to-face overlapping relationship, the oriented overlapping faces of said tapes being provided with male and female hook-and-loop fastening means.

Claim 3

The slingshot defined in and according to claim 1, and wherein said handgrip is provided with an axial bore normally closed at an upper end and open at a lower end, said bore providing a confining and storing magazine for a supply of ready-to-use pellets, birdshot for example, manually regulable closure means operatively mounted on said lower end and closing said magazine and an openable and closable pellet-discharging passage formed in said handgrip and communicaBle with said upper end.

Claim 4

A slingshot comprising a one-piece stock embodying a handgrip having upper and lower ends, said upper end having a substantially U-shaped fork embodying a pair of arms having lower ends joined by a crotch portion, said arms having free upper ends, said arms having vertically elongated open-ended passages, said handgrip being provided with an axial bore closed at an upper end and open at its lower end, said bore providing a magazine-type storage chamber for a supply of ready-to-use pellets, the upper end of said handgrip being provided on one side with an angled pellet-discharging passage having an inner open end communicating with said chamber adjacent the closed upper end of said chamber and an outer accessible open end, said passage serving to permit the user to discharge pellets from the storing chamber into the palm of his hand, said passage being provided with an insertable and removable normally closed closing plug, a manually controllable end closure for said lower end of said chamber and accessibly mounted on said lower end of said chamber and providing a readily operable closure for said lower end of said chamber, and a sling operatively cooperable with said fork, said sling comprising a pair of like pull-responsive elastically stretchable tubes having forward ends threaded through and removably anchored in their respectively open-ended passages, and having rearward ends operatively connected together by a flexible leather strap which is capable of being doubled and folded upon itself midway between its respective ends to provide opposed face-to-face half-portions, said half-portions providing a finger-held pouch in which a batch of projectable pellets can be collectively nested, temporarily held, and aimed at a given target preparatory to intentionally releasing and forcibly projecting said pellets toward said target, the interior surfaces of said half-portions being equipped with male and female fasteners which not only achieve the pouch-forming and pellet-nesting and aiming step but come automatically into play to releasably shoot and scatter the pellets in a predetermined manner.

Claim 5

A slingshot comprising a one-piece stock embodying a handgrip having upper and lower ends, said upper end having a substantially U-shaped fork embodying a pair of arms having lower ends joined by a crotch portion, said arms having free upper ends, said arms having vertically elongated open-ended passages, said handgrip being provided with an axial bore closed at an upper end and open at its lower end, said bore providing a magazine-type storage chamber for a supply of ready-to-use pellets, the upper end of said handgrip being provided on one side with an angled pellet-discharging passage having an inner open end communicating with said chamber adjacent the closed upper end of said chamber and an outer accessible open end, said passage serving to permit the user to discharge pellets from the storing chamber into the palm of his hand, said passage being provided with an insertable and removable normally closed closing plug, a manually controllable end closure for said lower end of said chamber and accessibly mounted on said lower end of said chamber and providing a readily operable closure for said lower end of said chamber, and a sling operatively cooperable with said fork, said sling comprising a pair of like pull-responsive elastically stretchable tubes having forward ends threaded through and removably anchored in their respectively open-ended passages, and having rearward ends operatively connected together by a flexible leather strap which is capable of being doubled and folded upon itself midway between its respective ends to provide opposed face-to-face half-portions, said half-portions providing a finger-held pouch in which a batch of projectable pellets can be collectively nested, temporarily held, and aimed at a given target preparatory to intentionally releasing and forcibly projecting said pellets toward said target, the interior surfaces of said half-portions being equipped with male and female fasteners which not only achieve the pouch-forming and pellet-nesting and aiming step but come automatically into play to releasably shoot and scatter the pellets in a predetermined manner.

Claim 6

The slingshot defined in and according to claim 3 and wherein said fasteners comprise a first pair of upper and lower female tapes which are fixed to the interior surface of one half-portion located on one side of the fold line of said strap, and a second pair of upper and lower male tapes which are fixed to said interior surface of the other half-portion on the other side of said fold line.

Claim 7

The slingshot defined in according to claim 4, and wherein said tapes are situated adjacent to the upper and lower longitudinal edges of said strap, the female tapes being spaced apart, the male tapes being likewise spaced apart and said tapes being paired and aligned with each other in a manner to achieve said pouch-forming and pellet-nesting gathering step.