Rubber band gun, method of use, and method of assembly
View Patent ↗An elastic rubber band launching toy gun that uses a new method to launches 24 elastic bands in rapid succession using a simple assembly of only 13 individual parts, and featuring an optional, adjustable, sliding shoulder support stock. It is designed to resemble a Heckler & Koch MP5 firearm, as manufactured by Heckler & Koch GmbH of Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany. The rubber band gun includes a slideable, lockable stock which can be slid and locked into multiple lengths away from the butt of the firearm.
1. A toy gun comprising:
a gun frame formed from a single piece of material, the gun frame including a handle, a trigger groove, a slide cavity, a front notch, a plurality of rear notches, and a mock magazine;
a trigger assembly including a trigger, a trigger band, a trigger stop pin, a trigger clutch, and a pair of firing wedges;
a plurality of elastic projectiles stretched between said front notch and said plurality of rear notches while said trigger is in a first, loaded position;
said trigger configured to be moved to a second, fired position, whereby a first of said plurality of elastic projectiles is dislodged by said pair of firing wedges and fired away from said gun frame front notch;
a notched slide including a plurality of slide notches configured for receiving said trigger clutch;
wherein said trigger is pulled back to said first, loaded position by said trigger band, and said trigger clutch is configured to advance to a next of said plurality of slide notches, thereby advancing said pair of firing wedges;
said gun frame including a stock slide groove, said stock slide groove being dovetail-shaped;
a stock assembly including a shoulder stock, a pair of stock supports, a locking cam, and a cam nut;
said shoulder stock fastened to said pair of stock supports which slideably engage with said stock slide groove;
said stock assembly thereby being slideably engaged with said gun frame to slide from a first, extended position to a second, collapsed position within said stock slide groove; and
said stock supports including a plurality of stock notches configured for locking said stock assembly within said slide groove via said locking cam and said cam nut.
2. The toy gun of claim 1 , further comprising:
a firing wedge reset button connected to a front end of said trigger, which is configured to flex the trigger clutch against a clutch reset pin, thereby disengaging said slide notches; and
wherein said firing wedges are thereby configured to be removed and said notched slide configured to be replaced to an original first position for reloading the gun.