US2125979A - Toy hand grenade - Google Patents

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C. ARNOLD TOY HAND GRENADE Filed Jlily e, '1937 Willi/fill]!!! 1] Evil,

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amass my mum earns QFFICE Cari Arnold, Nuremberg, Germany Application July 6, 1937, Serial No. 52,253 in Germany y 7, 193'] 1 Claim.

Toy-grenades have become known which are brought to explosion by striking perpendicularly upon the ground. be it in consequence of shooting or throwing. In such grenades the point of.

5 gravity is placed as far as possible towards the front end, in order to avoid slipping. The invention relates to a miniature hand grenade which has to be thrown to come to explosion. This grenade must be of very light 10 weight in order to attain the farthest possible throw. When throwing the grenade, it happens almost always that the grenade does not strike on the ground with the head so that the striking bolt mechanism is not released and no explosion w takes place. In order to avoid this inconvenience and to securely attain an explosion at every throwing of'a hand grenade, the throwing pin projecting from the grenade has an extension on which a, disc is fixed whichis of slightly larger As this disc acts always explode in whatever position it strikes the ground. I

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated 5 by way of example in the accompanying drawing, in which g Fig. 1 shows the inoperative hand-grenade in longitudinal section.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of Fig. 1..

hand grenade.

(or iii-i196) Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section-through the charged grenade.

The grenade consists, in known manner, of a easing a, a firing pin 17, a handle pin c and a spiral spring d. According to the invention the handle pin c is extended and carries a disc 1, the diameter of. which is slightly larger than that of the casing 11. The handle-pin c has further a lateral projection g, which when thehandle pin is pulled back, engages in an indentation or behind a projection h of the grenade plate 1' and maintains the firing pin b under tension. The

primer is introduced into the casing a. throng an aperture 1 in this casing.

A toy grenade, comprising in combination with a casing, a head plate on said casing, and a spring controlled firing pin in the lower end of said casing, a handle pin fixed in said firing pin and projecting from the head plate of said casing, a disc on said handle pin outside the cover plate of said casing said disc being of iarger diameter than said casing, a projection in said casing and a lateral projection on said handle pin adapted to engage behind said projection in the casing, when said handle pin is pulled back for throwing the CARL ARNOLD.

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