The Patents for disc shooters [12/10/2010]

[There’s no secret I’ve always loved the old “disc shooters” that could be picked up in a grocery store aisle.  These were called the “Rayline Tracer Gun“, sold from the 1960’s to 1980’s, and then kind of disappeared.  Much more recently, someone started selling replicas on Amazon.  Once I had a 3D printer, this was one of my ideal prints.  It was easy to blow through a pile of the discs and lose them all in an afternoon.  But, the little discs look very printable.

A year after the below post, I’d go on to post about a contest for a design of a disc shooter.  I started building some of the components for the disc shooter and the disc cartridge, but never end up building a reasonably functional shooter.

This is a project I’d still like to come back to and resurrect. ¹  I’m confident with enough trial and error, I could design something that would work in a similar fashion.  Anyhow, below are links to the patents for these toys which I’d found as part of my research into building one for myself.]

• PDF of Patent # 3515114: DISC PROJECTING TOY PISTOL, Filed 9/22/1967, Issued 6/2/1970
• Link to Patent # 3515114 on Google Patent Search
• PDF of Patent # 5613482: Disk shooting toy gun, Filed 1/27/1995, Issued 3/25/1997
• Link to Patent # 5613482 on Google Patent Search

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42. The Patents for disc shooters [12/10/2010]

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