US4175353A
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Toy simulated ray gun
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1978-01-03
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Granted: 1979-11-27
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Expires: 1998-01-03
Abstract
Abstract A gun-like toy device for producing controllable audio and visual effects simulating a fictitious futuristic space-age weapon. The device has a general hand gun shape with a handle attached to a central body section that has an audio speaker on its upper side and a barrel-like front end portion with attached lamps. Packaged within the body and handle are electronic components comprising battery power means, timer means for causing the lamps to flash at a controllable rate, audio generation means connected to said speaker and said power means, control means for preselecting the level and frequency and thus the characteristic mode of the sound produced by said audio generation means and a mode switch means for selecting either a continuous high pitch warbling sound or a single "shot" or blast sound that rapidly decays when a trigger means on said handle is pulled to "fire" the gun and simultaneously activate said lamp means and said audio generation means in the preselected mode.
Inventors
- 👤 Vaughn A. Pickett
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-24 21:48
CPC Classifications
A; A63; A63J; A63J17/00
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
151 words
A toy gun device for producing controllable audio and visual effect simulating a fictitious "ray" type weapon, said device comprising: a body in the general shape of a hand gun having a handle attached to a central section with a barrel-like front end portion; power means in said body; lamp means at said front end portion; audio speaker means in said central section; circuit means connected to said power means including audio generation means connected to said speaker means and said power means and including control means for producing a continuously warbling vibrato sound at a preselected level and frequency, and lamp control means for actuating said lamp means to flash on and off during the warbling sound produced by said audio generation means; and trigger means on said handle for simultaneously activating said lamp control means and said audio generation means to simulate the firing of said gun-like toy device.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
151 words
A toy gun device for producing controllable audio and visual effect simulating a fictitious "ray" type weapon, said device comprising: a body in the general shape of a hand gun having a handle attached to a central section with a barrel-like front end portion; power means in said body; lamp means at said front end portion; audio speaker means in said central section; circuit means connected to said power means including audio generation means connected to said speaker means and said power means and including control means for producing a continuously warbling vibrato sound at a preselected level and frequency, and lamp control means for actuating said lamp means to flash on and off during the warbling sound produced by said audio generation means; and trigger means on said handle for simultaneously activating said lamp control means and said audio generation means to simulate the firing of said gun-like toy device.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
64 words
The toy gun device as described in claim 1 wherein said circuit means includes a tonal control means for providing a decaying input to said audio generation means that produces a single "shot" or audio burst when said trigger means is pulled once; and a mode switch for enabling a user of said device to preselect the continuous or the "one-shot" mode of operation.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
71 words
The toy gun device as described in claim 2 wherein said tonal control means comprises a pair of optoelectric devices, a first one of which provides a decay time and thus a single shot audio response time of around one second, and a second one of which provides a decay time of around two to four seconds; and program switch means for preselecting either said first or said second optoelectric device.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
34 words
The toy gun device as described in claim 3 wherein said first optoelectric device comprises a light emitting diode mounted within an enclosure adjacent to a phototransistor to provide a relatively short decay time.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
29 words
The toy gun device as described in claim 3 wherein said second optoelectric device comprises a light emitting diode mounted within an enclosure adjacent to a cadmium sulfide photocell.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
70 words
The toy gun device as described in claim 1 wherein said circuit means comprises a first oscillator including an integrated timer circuit for producing a square wave output at continuous frequency and connected to a first amplifier whose output is connected to said lamp means, a second oscillator connected to a third oscillator, a second amplifier connected to said third oscillator whose output is connected to said audio speaker means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
32 words
The toy gun device as described in claim 6 including a first variable resistor means connected to an input to said third oscillator for altering the audio pitch of the sound produced.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
32 words
The toy gun device as described in claim 7 including a second variable resistor means connected to an input to said second oscillator for altering the audio contract of the sound produced.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
34 words
The toy gun device as described in claim 8 wherein said first and second variable resistors are connected to knobs extending from a rear section of said body extending rearwardly from said central section.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
51 words
The toy gun device as described in claim 1 wherein said speaker means in said central body section is directed upwardly with its grill in a horizontal plane and said power means in the form of batteries are retained within said central body section on opposite sides of said speaker means.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
39 words
The toy gun device as described in claim 1 wherein said lamp means comprise two penlight incandescent bulbs mounted in spaced apart sockets at the muzzle end of said device and controlled to light alternatively by said circuit means.
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