An automatic, rapid-firing toy gun is powered by a fast moving air stream.
The toy gun is simple in design and does not require a lot of effort and
time to fire the projectiles or to load the projectiles between firing.
The toy gun includes a barrel, a fan, a loading chamber, and a trigger.
The barrel has a forward end, a rear end, and an inner passage between
the two ends. The fan is arranged with respect to the barrel to direct an
air stream through the inner passage from the rear end to the forward
end. The loading chamber is mounted on the barrel and has an opening
directed into the inner passage. The loading chamber is sized and shaped
to hold a plurality of projectiles and the opening is sized and shaped to
sequentially release the plurality of projectiles into the inner passage
of the barrel one at a time. The trigger is electrically connected to the
fan. Pulling the trigger causes the fan to drive a large volume of air
through the gun barrel and the air stream to accelerate as it travels
through a narrow passage of the gun barrel. Projectiles sequentially fall
into the air stream one at a time and are quickly released from the gun
as the air stream accelerates through the gun barrel and exits the gun
barrel.