Toy gun

Abstract

A toy gun for individually shooting soft projectiles has a body and a magazine attached to the body for housing an array of soft projectiles and delivering them individually to a firing position within the body. A firing mechanism in the body fires a first projectile from the firing position. A projectile separator acts upon a second projectile adjacent to the first projectile to at least reduce frictional interaction between the first and second projectiles during firing and to smooth the projectile loading process.

1 . A toy gun for individually shooting soft projectiles, comprising:
 a body;   a magazine formed integrally with or attached to the body for housing an array of soft projectiles and delivering them individually to a firing position within the body;   a firing mechanism in the body for firing a first said projectile from the firing position in a trajectory direction;   a projectile separator adapted to act upon a second said projectile adjacent to said first projectile to at least reduce frictional interaction between the first and second projectiles during firing.   
   
   
       2 . The toy gun of  claim 1 , wherein the projectile separator is movable in between said first projectile in the firing position and said second projectile. 
   
   
       3 . The toy gun of  claim 2 , wherein the projectile separator moves substantially parallel to the trajectory direction. 
   
   
       4 . The toy gun of  claim 3 , wherein the projectile separator comprises a bifurcated tongue. 
   
   
       5 . The toy gun of  claim 4 , wherein the bifurcated tongue comprises a V-shape between bifurcated fingers. 
   
   
       6 . The toy gun of  claim 1 , wherein the firing mechanism releases a blast of air to the first projectile.