20100032449 | Multi-action toy water gun and variable-fluid discharge devices useful therein - A multi-action toy water gun includes a housing including a gun barrel having a discharge chamber and a nozzle through which water is to be discharged; a handle grippable by one hand of a user for carrying the water gun and for aiming the barrel towards a target; a water reservoir for holding a quantity of water; a manually-driven pump having a pumping chamber and a handpiece grippable by the other hand of the user and reciprocatable along an axis parallel to that of the barrel for producing a discharge of water through the nozzle via the pumping and discharge chambers; and a water discharge control presettable by the user to different positions enabling the user to produce, during one preset position thereof, a large quantity blast discharge of water from the barrel towards the target for drenching purposes, and during another preset position thereof, a rapid sequence of small-quantity discharges of water for simulating rapid shots of an automatic gun. In the described preferred embodiments, the water discharge control also produces, in another selected actuation thereof, a single small-quantity discharge of water simulating a single shot of a gun. | 02-11-2010 |