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Mary Poppins is totally metal:
Now we need "Chim Chim Cheree" in a similar vein with a few more much-needed pyro effects.
On Wednesday, the PRI radio show Marketplace had a story about how Baltimore sewers are in desperate need of incredibly costly repairs. The sewers will eventually fail without repair/replacement, and the bill for that will be approximately 1 trillion dollars. I thought about repairs I've done to my own house and how much I wish I could travel back to whenever a previous owner was about to do something stupid from my point of view (especially involving wiring) and make them do it right. This made me wonder:
When will the cost of replacing or repairing inadequate infrastructure far exceed the cost of building a working time machine?
Much like how my theory that working A.I. will be invented (or caused) by someone trying to make a better spam-bot, I wondered if someone would think it cost-effective to use a method of temporal travel that would let someone "encourage" the Baltimore sewer designers of the past to beef up their blueprints a bit. These odd people with impressive credentials show up, demand specs far in excess of what the engineers of the past think is needed or rational, and use carrot (maybe precious metals?) or stick (knowledge of future events, like the foreman embezzling from the city or something) to make the Baltimore sewer of the future not require a total rehab.
It kind of sounds like a scheme the Doctor might try to break up for fiddling with the timeline. If Mr. Moffat wants to commission me to put together a script, I'm ready to give Peter Capaldi a lot of interesting things to say about humanity's waste disposal systems, among other things.
Disney says it's bringing Ducktales back to the airwaves (or whatever you kids use these days) on their Disney XD channel in 2017. M'self, I'd like to see Gargoyles make a return, but continuing on from the final season when the show was a part of The Disney Afternoon and not the trainwreck the show became when it moved to Saturday mornings on ABC.
Not to be outdone, Netflix is looking to pull Inspector Gadget and Dangermouse out of the past, probably via Mr. Peabody's WABAC machine. If you're like me (and I know I am), you associate Dangermouse with the days when Nickelodeon was why you begged your parents to get this new "Cable TV" thing. Maybe it'll lead to a comeback for the spinoff show, Count Duckula, which gave "Star Wars Day" its signature slogan:
I'm afraid to request many more shows I remember liking as a kid due to that whole "positive memory reinforcement" thing which allowed me to love Buck Rogers in the 25th Century without realizing how stiff Gil Gerard was. Maybe I'll just leave it up to the professionals to decide.
• The image above comes from a search for Portal 2 mods. I screencapped the forum post it came from just in case it ever gets deleted.
• While on the topic of games by Valve, it would appear that at least one headcrab has played a Grand Theft Auto game.
• I've seen dice made from many materials, but I can't help think that depleted uranium dice would impress your fellow gamers the most.
• You kids don't know how easy you have it these days. Back in 1941, if you wanted to make Superman fan art, you had to make it out of wood.
• Coming soon to movies and/or TV, it's the Settlers of Catan boardgame. I'm not sure how this will translate to an actual script, and I guess the coveted bad-boy role will be that of the thief. I'm also certain there'll be a betting pool about how soon in the production a "wood for sheep" joke will appear.
• And finally, if you need to spice up your role-playing campaign, you could do worse than give these clever Monster Pamphlets a try.
There are times I'm really grateful that we live in a time where science and medicine have advanced to where they are. Without going into detail, I've had to be away from the blog to help out with an ill spouse. It wasn't one serious thing, exactly. Without divulging gory details, one minor thing was mis-diagnosed which allowed other things to happen. When those were taken care of, other things decided to come out to play as well, and when those seemed to be getting better, a cold/flu/something was called in because the Powers What Is decided her lungs hadn't been punished lately, and so on and so on. She was never in peril at any one time, but I figure if we lived in Ye Olde Times Before Yon Penicillinne, things would have become very dire.
But she's gotten better, finally. I think all that Murphy's Law can throw at her is a meteor strike, and if that happens, at least we get a free meteor.
So what news of the whole Patreon thing? Well, I'm announcing that starting in March, I'll be posting one of two things (if not both) for contributors. One is a chapterized stab at a novel. I've got loads of decent concepts started, so all that remains is to pick one to inflict present to you for critique. I've also got a concept for a flash-fiction thing which I think is a rather novel concept, making fun of a type of narration common to video games and some horror stories. If it works (that is, if I can make it not sound like poo), it'd touch on just about any fictional setting where someone could make some kind of audio diary. This, too, will be up for critique and/or requests for continuation.
Thanks for sticking around, and I'll be getting back to the "here's some weirdness I found on the interwebs" stuff tonight!
Note: My own car has a dent, not quite as big as the one above, but significant, put there by a street sweeper. I've had my request to put a similar motto across it vetoed. The slogan "Hulk Smash!" was similarly nixed.
Let's just cut to the chase: The BBC comedy panel quiz show, Q.I. (Quite Interesting) is coming to BBC America!
I've loved this show since the first season. Watch it. You won't be sorry. When they finally get around to the current shows, you'll even see Carrie Fisher make a guest appearance!
Oh, and if they haven't agreed to do it already, the next petition is to get the XL version of the show aired in the U.S. Starting with Series F, Q.I. would repeat with an extra 15 minutes of material, which was often just as good as the other 30 minutes.
If nothing else, you'll learn a lot more about parts of London and its environs, if only to grok all the zingers about places like Hull and Essex.
Taking several image boards by storm has been the new early-access game, Besiege. At this point, you have a handful of levels where your goal is to build a siege engine of doom and sic it on a structure of some kind. It's also got a mode that allows you to muck about with the designs to your heart's content, and the results have been… interesting:
It's only $7 on Steam at the moment, and if physics, fire, and building things that would seem at home in a Wacky Races cartoon, it's worth the price of admission. The Monty Python-like trumpets and banners that appear on the sides of the screen are a nice touch, too.
I want this kind of setup for my sidewalks:
And our snow went from powder to runoff in one day because our temperatures went from below freezing to sixty degrees today with seventy degrees in store for tomorrow. I'm almost thinking the weather forecast is starting to read like the descriptions of exoplanets that "aren't quite where we'd want to live if we could reach them."
Author's note: I'll do an actual update soon with actual site-related news and so forth, but this was too good not to pass on.
Last Friday as I took my kid to his grandmother's house, I passed a sign that had those two lovely words on it, "Estate Sale." For those who don't partake of these, they're a neat opportunity to pick up some garage sale-ish items (or nicer stuff, if you have the money) as well as see the inside of a house that isn't your own, hopefully finding at least one or two things that make you feel better about the place you occupy.
It's also pretty standard that you're going through the things of someone who is recently deceased, or is close to it, which I believe was the case here. I know some people who find that part of the whole affair distasteful, but there's the philosophical side that it's all a part of that great circle of recycling things that we don't so much "own" as "rent" (in the long run).
Anyway, this particular estate sale screamed "cat lady," though she appeared to have owned dogs as well. There were lots of pet-oriented items, like an entire set of multicolored dishes with 6 place settings and every dish festooned with the word "SPOILED" in raised ceramic. There were cat-shaped teapots, spoons, and knickknacks. There were shelves of books about cats and dogs, and even some Christmas decorations featuring pets as angels and Santas.
I looked through the things there and saw they had a big iron skillet for sale. I'd forgotten to bring some cash, so I told my wife, Cristi, where the sale was and if she wanted to drop by the next day, getting the skillet would be great. She and my older nephew, Xavier, went by, and later she came home and told me about something I'd missed.
"Did you go into the back room in the basement?" she asked. "The one with all the holiday decorations?"
"Yeah," I said, remembering. "I poked around in there, but didn't see anything I wanted."
"Did you see the boxes up high on the shelf built into the wall?"
"No. Why? What was in them?"
"We'll get to that. When I saw them, they were plain, white, square boxes that looked like the ones you'd keep a commemorative plate in."
Cristi knows this because her mom is among those who purchase family members those Royal Copenhagen blue & white plates with the year on them.
She continued: "They had names written in marker up in one corner, like 'Michael' and 'Sarah.' We'd seen them on other stuff in the house, so I figured, 'These must've been special Christmas items for her kids or something.' I took a box down, and it was pretty heavy. Inside was a velvet bag. While I was opening the bag, I felt another plastic bag inside it, like a Ziploc or something. Then I saw the inside of the box lid and yelped, tossing the box to Xavier."
"Why did you yelp?"
She ignored the question. "Then Xavier saw the inside of the box and saw the printed info for 'Wayside Waifs.'"
It's at this point that many Kansas City residents would recognize 'Wayside Waifs' as a local animal shelter.
I slowly put two and two together. "So those boxes were full of…"
"Her cremated pets!"
I considered for a moment. "How much did they want for them?"
"I don't know!"
"You mean you didn't ask?"
Apparently, you don't ask these kinds of things. Or at least, she doesn't. I don't know where her priorities were, but I can't bring you what the current market rate is for secondhand pet ashes. I'll try to do better in future blog posts.
If one experiences as many technology failures as I do, one might start to think one had an annoying EM field as a mutant superpower. My trusty hard drive called "First Foundation" (Asimov lives) recently started to signal it was ending its life-cycle. It did so several times as I valiantly dumped its giant archive of art and other critical files while trying to maintain the comics 'round here.
It's at this time I want to give a big thank-you to all the people who've pledged to my Patreon. I'm coming up with something I think you'll like getting the first look at, or enjoy telling me to try something else.
Anyway, I'm to the point where I think I need to just buy a huge solid state drive and a cradle I can jam it into and make occasional backups, then store the drive somewhere safe. Which would likely be away from me and whatever anti-electronics curse I seem to tote around.
But speaking of cursed electronics, there have been a few fan-made thingies that are associated with my favorite computerized time-sinks, so let's start things off with this head-to-head between Skyrim and Fallout:
Can we have Fallout 4 now, Bethesda? Because if you don't keep making games, other people will make better ones based on your engine. For example, there's the fine people over at SureAI who make Skyrim overhaul mods, completely changing the game into a brand-new fantasy adventure. If you have Oblivion, you might start with their first total conversion, Nehrim.
Now these final two links contain considerable amounts of non-kid-friendly language, so get your parents' permission before clicking through, okay? For those not familiar with the hit Machinima series, Freeman's Mind, cast your mind back to the game Half Life. You played well-armed and totally silent scientist Gordon Freeman. A mad genius played through the game, letting us hear what was going through Gordon's head at the time, and he recently finished the series (YouTube playlist link) which clocks in at a whopping 68 episodes. Note: As of this writing, episode 68 hasn't been added to the playlist, so completists will have to go to Accursed Farms' videos list and watch it separately.
Secondly, there's another series (with even more words you might not want your kiddos hearing/repeating) based on the Warhammer 40k franchise. If you're like me, and I know I am, you know that Warhammer is about Space Marines in huge suits of battle armor flying around in gothic ships to fight demons, aliens, and each other in the name of the God Emperor of Mankind, an almost-dead monarch who sits in a perpetual corpse-state on his throne on the planet Terra. From what I gather, imagine Imperial Rome collapsing into a kind of Imperial Holy Roman Empire… only with Orks and loads of sci-fi guns. I think. Anyway, a person calling himself Bruva Alfabusa wondered what would happen if the Emperor could find a way to communicate, and the result was If The Emperor Had A Text-To-Speech Device, the web series. I thought it might strike a chord with a few of the readers here. Enjoy!
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The Lions lie in wait for the Crusaders on Sunday (NZT) at Ellis Park and their unpredictability and flair makes a dangerous combination for a side trying to recapture form.
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In a city where the skyscrapers seems to stretch on for miles, just exploring the best of the architecture is one of the top things to do in São Paulo —and your hotel concierge can help hook you up with any number of guided tours. There are plenty of cool things to do in São Paulo. The Jardins (especially on Rua Oscar Freire and Alameda Lorena) is where you'll find the more upscale boutiques, while Centro is where you can browse market stalls of leather, textiles and crafts. A great place to start, near the Mariana metro stop, is the Casa de Vila, which offers Brazilian handicrafts from a beautiful 1929 mansion. São Paulo is a hotbed for contemporary art galleries, such as relative newcomer Raquel Arnaud, focusing on Brazilian artists, or Galeria Vermelho, which tends to show more international talent. To see truly up-and-coming work, walk down the Beco do Batman (Rua Gonçalo Afonso) in the Vila Madalena district— a colorful, graffiti-lined alley that changes continually as street artists add new works.
If you love nightlife, your list of what to do in São Paulo should start with a generous dose of the local coffee. The evening really kicks off at about 10 around here, at lounges such as Suite Savalas (have an amaretto-infused Corleone) or Emporio Sagarana, where you can partake in a refreshing glass of sugar-cane-based cachaça. For a hot dance club after midnight, check out Casa 92, which feels like the home of a very well connected friend.
One of the city's coolest electronic-music clubs, D-Edge attracts partiers with a wild dance room that makes you feel like you're inside a giant Rubik's Cube.
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Galeria Melissa is a mecca for plastic and rubber footwear. Expect stylish sandals, sneakers, and kitten heels by Vivienne Westwood, Karim Rashid, and Jason Wu, among others; the rotating installations by local artists at the massive entranceway draw even the non-shoe obsessed.
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Colin Montgomerie apparently will summon his inner Rocco Mediate when he makes his Champions Tour debut Thursday at Fox Chapel Golf Club.
Montgomerie has had a prickly relationship with golf fans, particularly American ones, during his Hall of Fame career. But the Scot plans to showcase a less intense side when he tees it up at the Constellation Senior Players Championship.
"I think that my personality will show through on the (Champions Tour) as opposed to trying to win a major on the PGA Tour," said Montgomerie, who turns 50 on Sunday. "I really look forward to playing a role with the crowd, getting involved with the crowd and involving them in the game."
Montgomerie and Mediate, a Greensburg native, are two of the most celebrated newcomers on the Champions Tour this season. Each has embraced the golfing opportunity that comes with turning 50, and the latest chapter in Montgomerie's complicated career will give him a chance to buff his image.
All he has to do is look at Mediate if he wants to connect with fans — and look like he is having fun rather than a colonoscopy on the golf course.
Mediate has long chatted up fans and competitors, and his personality shined through five years ago when he stood up to Tiger Woods on one of golf's biggest stages.
Mediate nearly beat Woods in the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, and the two provided compelling theater on prime-time TV. Woods needed 19 extra holes to finally vanquish Mediate, who made it through a sectional qualifier just to get into the tournament. Mediate basked in the moment instead of wilting, as so many used to do when encountering Woods near the top of the leaderboard in a major, and that only further endeared him to fans.
"He wears his emotions on his sleeves," Steve Stricker said of Mediate. "He's always been just a classy guy, fun to be around and easy to play with, so I think that's why everyone likes him."
Montgomerie, by contrast, won't win any popularity contests. He has tangled with fans and fellow competitors alike, and a recent SI.com story chronicling the best-ever golf feuds had Montgomerie at No. 14.
His sparring partners? Everyone.
Montgomerie is still one of the most outspoken players on any tour, and he said his contentious relationship with fans can be traced to his challenging Greg Norman for top player in the world in the pre-Woods era.
"When I got to No. 2 in the world to Greg Norman, I was quite a threat," Montgomerie said. "Therefore I was a target."
The image of a dour, snarling Monty, however, is at odds with the player who took time while playing in the BMW International Open in Germany last week to answer questions via conference call.
Montgomerie provided insightful answers and seemed generally appreciative of the opportunity to play on the Champions Tour — and win a major championship, the one thing that has eluded him during his decorated career.
The player who fans derisively called "Mrs. Doubtfire," after a portly nanny portrayed by Robin Williams in a 1993 movie, showed a self-deprecating side as well. When talking about how good the Champions Tour is due to how much healthier players are, Montgomerie said, "Well, I never really have been fit, but I am as fit as I've ever been."
Montgomerie said he is "under no illusion" that he will win big immediately on the Champions Tour because of how competitive it is.
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He won his first start on the circuit in February but still is looking for his second victory. Mediate also has tied for 20th and 36th, respectively, in his first two majors on the tour.
"It's a joke how many good guys and good players there are out there to hang with," Mediate said. "The players want this tour to stay healthy, and it should be healthy because of all the legends that are out there."
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Boone's is a neighborhood joint near the University of Denver, which explains the name: Denver Boone was DU's official mascot from 1968 to 1998. But Boone's isn't just about DU. It's "state-triotic," according to co-owner Rob Lanphier, featuring just beers from Colorado, stocking about half of its bar with liquors from Colorado, and "trying to do as much Colorado-sourced food as humanly possible." The majority of the food is made from scratch, including barbecue. "The thing we try to strive for is having great food, basically," Lanphier says. "Better food than people would expect in a neighborhood tavern." Welcome to the neighborhood.


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I would like to respond to Mr. Mauriellos and Ms. Paritzs letters to the editor. As a landlord, I take offense to the assertions that landlords do not educate themselves on the law regarding eviction of tenants.
My lease is from the Vermont Renters Association. My rentals comply with all regulations. My experience with the process of evictions is a negative one. Evictions are costly and require time to enforce. During this process, you have a tenant living on your property that is not paying rent, you are forced to pay all property expenses, and generally in the end, the landlord is left with hefty repair bills to put the rental unit back in a rentable state. This process can take months.
Many landlords pay the tenant to move to avoid the expense and time involved. To me, this just perpetuates the problem.
These tenants know how to play the law to the fullest. Some go into court representing themselves. They are given time allowances for filing paperwork. Then they may get free representation, while I am paying for a lawyer, and time is marching on. The process then starts over, and more time is lost. Every time a paper is served, the landlord pays. Every time there is a court date, the landlord pays. Every time the tenant is finally evicted, the landlord pays. All this time, there is no income on the rental property.
Some tenants are just irresponsible, some know how to play the system and prolong the process. And some are just going through hard times. I have always tried to work with the latter. I have one rental apartment that I no longer rent because it has cost me more to evict and maintain than I received in income.
It is a fact, not a myth, that landlords are legally disadvantaged. It should be: You dont pay, you dont stay. I wonder if Mr. Mauriello and Ms. Paritz have ever been landlords.
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US 2574952 A Abstract available in Claims available in Description (OCR text may contain errors) S. l. BERGER TOY MACHINE GUN Nov. 13, 1951 2 SHEETSSHEET 1 Filed May 19, 1947 INVENTOR BY v 06% 9% ATTO R N EYS S, l. BERGER TOY MACHINE GUN Nov. 13, 1951 2 SHEETS--SHEET 2 Filed May 19, 1947' INVENTOR SamzzeZ fier ger OWWWWVW ATTO R N EYS Patented Nov. 13, 1951 UNITED STATES" PATENT OFFICE TOY GUN Samuel I. Berger, Newark, N. J. Application May 19, 1947, Serial No. 748,950 2 Claims. This invention relates to mechanical toys and more particularly to a toy machine gun of the spring motor driven type. As conducive to a clear understanding of the invention, it is to be noted that in the assembly of a toy machine gun of the conventional type, the parts of the spring motor actuating the same are generally mounted on one side of the frame of the gun and the other side is thereupon aflixed to the first side to complete the assembly. If, after the gun is completely assembled, the motor should prove to be defective, the gun must be completely disassembled, repaired and reassembled, which procedure is so time consuming and costly that it is more economical to discard the entire toy. It is accordingly among the objects of my invention to provide a toy machine gun of light, rugged and inexpensive construction, which has substantially all the advantages of that of my previous application Serial No. 668,290, filed May 8, 1945, now Patent No. 25303303, including the use substantially only of sheet metal and rod stock, to simulate the appearance of a genuine machine gun, which is realistic in operation by simulating the clatter of a machine gun and the flash at the muzzle, which in use is not likely to cause injury to the child and which has the advantage over said prior invention of greater simplicity in construction and ease in assembly and replacement of the motor if on inspection and test, the device be found to be defective. In the accompanying drawings in which is shown one of various possible embodiments of the several features of the invention, Fig. 1 is a top elevationof the toy, Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof with parts broken away, Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view on a larger scale taken on line 3-3 of Fig. I, Fig. 4 is an end view from the muzzle of the Fig. 5 is a transverse. sectional view taken on line -5--5 of Fig-2, Fi 6 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 5-6 of Fig. 3, Fig. 7 is a sectional; detail view takenon line 'i-l' of Fig. 2, v Fig. 8 is a sectionaldetail view taker-ion line; 8-43 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the spring motor drive unit. Referring now to the drawings. the comprises a body in which is a casing composed of two complementary sheet metal stampings ll V 2 and I2, each forming an outline which includes the stock l3. The two complementary pieces are assembled together by crimping the edge [4 of one about the angle formation i5 on the other to form a seam l6. One of the complementary pieces I I has a substantially rectangular aperture l1 therein into which a spring motor drive unit I8 may be inserted. The edge of aperture I! has a countersunk flange l1 unitary therewith on which a cover plate i9 having a slot l9 therethrough, may be seated so as to be flush with the surface of complementary piece H. The cover plate [9 is afiixed over said aperture by means of lugs 20 unitary with the edgeof the flange 11' and extending through corresponding openings 2| in said cover plate I 9. The barrel 22 is made of a single piece of sheet metal corrugated at '23 to simulate cooling vanes, uncorrugated at its front or muzzle 24 which has a pair of sights 24" preferably embossed thereon, and provided with side pieces 25 unitary therewith. The rear edge of the barrel unit is crimped to the forward edge of the bodyunit as at 26 by a seam similar to that above described and shown in Fig. 8. i The spring motor drive unit it may be of more or'less conventional construction and'comprises a substantially rectangular box-like frame 21 of sheet metal open at the top and bottom thereof and slightly smaller in face dimensions than aperture l! in the body H) of the gun so that it may readily be inserted thereinafter the constituent parts of the motor are assembled on the frame. The top edges of frame 2! have a plurality of upstanding lugs 2-8 unitary therewithby means of which the frame 21 may be securely -a,f-' fixed to the top 2'9 of the body, the lugs being insertable in corresponding openings 30 in said top 29. The spring motor includes a coil spring 3i within its cylindrical shell 32' and wound around a shaft 33 journalled in openings inthe side walls 34 and 35 of the frame and extending laterally outward from wall '34. The coil spring 3| is wound by means of a key conformation 36 on the end of shaft 33 and a conventional winding pawl; and ratchet (not shown). Shell 32. has a gear 3'! afl'ixed thereto-which meshes with a pinion 38 on countershaft "39 which countershaft also carries a-gear 4!! which in turn meshes with pinion H on a second countershaft 42 which carries a crown gear 43, the latter driving a pyrophoric flash sim-' ulation unit which will :be described hereinafter. Countershafts .39 and 42. are journalled in openings inside walls M and 35 of the framewas is countershaft whichparries a gear dipreferably; meshing directly with gear 31 and a clapper ac' tuating ratchet wheel 46 which simulates the sound of a machine gun and the operation of which will be described below. Flash simulation is efiected by an abrasive wheel 41 driven from the spring motor and a pyrophoric tip or flint 48 riding on the periphery thereof. The abrasive wheel is keyed upon an axle 49 along witha pinion 56, the axle bearing in sheet metal standards I, the latter being part of a substantially U-shaped bracket 52 aflixed to closure plate 53 bridging across the lower edges of the side walls 25 of the barrel by lugs or tines 54. The flint 48 is riveted to a sheet, metal strip 55 with a bent-out heel 56 extending through a corresponding slot 51 in the upper part of the muzzle 24 and with end tongues 58 overlapping the muzzle and loosely supporting the stri 55. The transmission from crown gear 43 of the spring motor to the abrasive wheel 4'! is by way of a drive rod 59 which passes through an opening 59' in wall 69 of the frame l8 and bears at one end in an arm 66 turned inwardly from side wall 34 of the frame 2'! and unitary therewith and at its opposite end in the upper part of a cross plate 62 bridging between and preferably integral with the standards 5|. Aflixed to the rear end of the drive rod 59 in front of arm 69 is a pinion 63 which meshes with the crown gear 43, and at the forward extremitv of said rod 59 beyond the bearing or cross plate 62 is keyed the hub 64 of a crown pinion 65 meshing with the pinion 56. The clatter producing member is a short leaf of spring steel 66 riveted as at 61 to the under face of the upper wall of the barrel at the root end thereof, with a portion 68 thereof normally in juxtaposition to' the under face of the top wall 29 of the body III, the forward part of said leaf extending through an opening 66' on the front wall 69 of the frame and in the path of the teeth of ratchet wheel 46. The motor is normally restrained by a brake, comprising preferably a sheet metal pawl 15 pivoted by a rivet H to the side wall 34 of the frame 21 and having a pawl tongue 12 which meshes with the pinion 63, as best shown in Fig. 5. The pawl is retained in such meshing position by a flexed spring wire 13 releasably pivoted as at 14. at its forward end to the lo er end of the pawl 10, and extending the length of the body and reacting at its opposite end against the back wall' ID of the body. Release of the motor and operation of the tov is efiected by a tri ger which comprises a bar 11 pivotally mounted as at 18 to the side of complementary piece [2 and having its trigger end 19 ex osed for o eration through a trigger slot 86 in the body. The wire 13 extends through an aperture 13 in said trigger bar sli htl abo e the trigger and has a right angled bend 14' therein against which the trigger bar presses. Installation and operation The body of the gun is assembled together with the clap er strip 66, the flash simulation device com rising the abrasive wheel 41, pinion 50, crown pinion 65, drive rod 59, pinion 63 and trigger 15 with flexible wire 13. The constituent parts of the spring motor drive unit 58 are assembled on frame 21 and the end of drive rod 59 is inserted through the opening 59' in wall 69 of t e frame into the bearing opening in arm 60 so that pinion 63 meshes with crown gear 43. The forward end ofwire i3 is inserted into the lower end of the pawl and the drive unit '3' is then positioned in aperture I! in body I!) so that clapper strip 66 enters opening 66 in wall 69 with its free end in juxtaposition to ratchet wheel 46. The tines 28 on the top of frame 21 are inserted through the openings 30 in the body 10 and bent over securely to hold the motor unit in place. Cover plate I9 is placed over aperture l1 and seated on flange l1 so that key conformation 36 passes through slot l9 and the tines or lugs 20 pass through the openings 2| in the cover plate. These tines are then bent over to complete the assembly. The motor being wound, the gun is operated bypulling the trigger 15 which, through the wire 13, releases the pawl 10 from the pinion 63. The spring motor thereupon drives the crown gear 43 at fairly high speed and through the pinion 63, drives rod 59 and crown pinion 65, spins the abrasive wheel 41 so that flint 48 riding thereon generates sparks which are propelled outward through the muzzle 24 giving the simulation -of a flash. The clapper ratchet wheel 46 driven from the motor alternately pushes the clapper strip 66 downward drawing it away from the body wall 29 and upon quick release thereof, causes portion [8 thereof to strike said wall with the clatter desired. Upon release of the trigger 15, the spring wire 13 pushes bar 11 forward. about its pivot 18 and the bar 11 in turn moves the front portion of wire 13 forward to pivot pawl 10 back into engagement with pinion 63 and brakes the motor pending subsequent operation. As the motor is a complete unit in itself, it may conveniently be tested before insertion into the body of the gun, and if after insertion, it should fail to work it can quickly and easily be replaced by a new unit without discarding the entire gun. This feature increases the speed of assembly of such toy guns and greatly reduces the cost thereof. As the only parts likely to wear out aftercontinued use of the'gun are the abrasive wheel and the flint, these parts are made readily available for repair or replacement by simply spreading the tines holding the closure plate 53 and removing the latter along with the U-shaped bracket 52 affixed thereto and mounting the abrasive wheel. With the closure plate 53 removed, the flint 48 is exposed and can be easily removed. As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope of the claims, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is: 1. A toy machine gun comprising a body having an aperture therein on one side thereof, a barrel having a muzzle afilxed to said body and extending longitudinally thereof, a spring steel clapper riveted at one end adjacent to the rear end of said barrel and extending into said body, a drive unit having a spring motor removably mounted in said aperture, a cover plate removably affixed to said body over said aperture, thereby closing the latter, a ratchet wheel mounted on said drive unit and driven by said spring motor, said ratchet wheel having teeth riding over the free end of said clapper, said clapper'having a portion striking the bddyafter each deflection and release thereof by said ratchet wheel, a spark producing flint in the muzzle, an abrasive wheel coacting therewith, and a transmission comprising a drive rod longitudinally of said barrel extending from said abrasive wheel into said body, a pinion affixed to the .end of said drive rod in said body, a crown gear journalled in said removable drive unit and meshing with said pinion to drive the latter and rotate said abrasive wheel, a brake for said motor comprising a pawl pivoted to said body and resiliently 1o urged into engagement with said pinion, and a trigger pivotally mounted on said body and connected to said pawl to disengage the latter from said pinion. 2. The combination set forth in claim 1 in which said barrel has a pair of side pieces unitary therewith and extending downward therefrom, a closure'plate bridging across the lower edges of said side pieces and removably aflixed thereto, a 6 pair of standards affixed to said closure plate, an axle bearing in said standards, said abrasive wheel keyed on said axle, a strip afiixed at one end to said barrel and a flint at the free end of said strip and resting on said abrasive wheel. SAMUEL I. BERGER. REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent: UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,055,848 Marx Sept. 29, 1936 2,092,872 Bonnet Sept. 14, 1937 2,097,749 Wade Nov. 2, 1937 2,117,597 Berger May 17, 1938 2,122,467 Heppner July 5, 1938 2,157,181 Lohr May 9, 1939 Patent Citations
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