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Description

(No Model.)

O. M. G-RANDALL.

TOY TARGET.

Patented Dec. 19, 1882.

INVENTOR ATT RN BY.

WITNESSES: 6M.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES M. GRANDALL, OF MONTROSE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO FRED W. GRANDALL AND BENJN. L. BALDWIN, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

TOY TARG ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,266, dated December 19, 1882.

Application filed July 25,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. ORANDALL, of Mont-rose, Susquehanna county, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toy Targets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, making part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement intoy targets; and the invention consists in a target, in combination with an elastic strip or string, an armed dart, and a cord-clamping device, as is more particularly described and claimed hereinafter.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of target, elastic, and dart; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of same; Fig. 3, an elevation of rear of target, showing clamp and manner of fastening elastic; Fig. 4, a detail view, showing dart.

Similarletters of referenceindicatelike parts in the several figures.

A represents the target, made from wood or other suitable material, which may be ofany desired size, and ornamented with the usual concentric rings and bulls-eye, a.

Passing through the center of the bulls-cye a, and securely fixed, is one end of an elastic strip or string, B, of india-rubber. The other end of this elastic string is secured to a dart, G. This dart may be made of wood, its front end being armed with a needle-point, b, and

its rear end provided with feathers or worsted filaments c to guide the dart in its flight.

Now, when my toy is constructed substantiallyas described, and when using it, it is simply necessary to hold the dart 0 between the fingers and draw it back from the target until the elastic string B is stretched to some extent, when by letting go the dart the elastic string, in recovering its normal state, will cause the dart G to fly from the fingers to the target, it being guided in its [light by the feathers or worsted filaments c, and in this way the dart can be made to fly with more or less accuracy (depending upon the skill of the player) until the bulls-eye a is struck. Whenever the dart strikes the target the needle-point'enters into it and-fixes the dart to the target, leaving a 0 mark indicating the place where the dart had struck.

The elastic string B may be of any desired length; but in order to regulate its length to correspond with the length of the room in which the toy is used a small clamp, 61, is fixed to the rear of the target, to which the elastic can be clamped after it has been drawn through a hole in the bulls-eye a, in this way regulating the length of the elastic to any desired extent.

The clamp cl may be, and on the score of economy preferably is, a small disk, of sheet metal, with its rim flared outwardly, and having more or less resilience, so that ,the cord may be in- 6 serted between the said disk and the back of the target, and be held there by the spring or clamp action of the disk. This disk may be arranged a little to one side of the cord hole, above or below indift'erently.

Instead of painting the concentric rings on the face of the target, the rings may be lithographed or printed on paper and the paper attached to the target, so that after one paper has become defaced by the repeated markings 7 of the dart a new one can be supplied.

The targetcan be placed upon a table or in any suitable position for use, and it may or not be provided with supporting-feet c.

Having now described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-.

A toy target composed of the. target proper,

A, an elastic cord passing through the bullseye in said-target, a clamping device on the 8 back of said target to engage and hold the cord at any adjustment thereof, and an armed dart attached to and carried by said cord, substantially as shown and described.

CHARLES M. ORANDALL. Witnesses:

B. L. BALDWIN, F. W. CRANDALL.

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