Claims
- 1. An action figure with the ability to shoot water by means of an air pressurized water chamber, comprising:
- (a) a body having a hollow portion and having at least one body orifice and having at least one appendage;
- (b) a water and air storage reservoir connected to and located within said body and having at least one orifice corresponding to and coincidental with said at least one body orifice;
- (c) a pressuring means for pressuring said reservoir with air, said means being attachable to at least one of said reservoir and said body and being inserted into said reservoir through said at least one body orifice and at least one corresponding orifice of said reservoir;
- (d) an avenue of release for water displaced by pressurized air in said reservoir, said avenue of release being located within and extending from said reservoir to a nozzle;
- (e) a nozzle at one end of said avenue of release; and,
- (f) a water release means for regulating the fluid flow through said avenue of release and out of said nozzle.
- 2. The action figure of claim 1, wherein said reservoir has a single orifice through which air and water enter said storage reservoir.
- 3. The action figure of claim 1, wherein airflow from said reservoir to said pressurizing means is prevented by a one way flow device.
- 4. The action figure of claim 1, wherein waterflow from said reservoir into said pressurizing means is prevented by a one way flow device.
- 5. The action figure of claim 2, wherein said body has a threaded collar at its orifice and said pressurizing means is screwably attached to said collar and extends into said reservoir located within said body.
- 6. The action figure of claim 5, wherein a portion of said pressurizing means extends outside of said body in the form of an appendage of said action figure.
- 7. The action figure of claim 6, wherein said pressurizing means is a hand operated air pump with a slider and said appendage with said portion of said pressurizing means acts as both a portion of the character of said action figure and as a handle for said slider.
- 8. The action figure of claim 1, wherein said action figure is a character with various appendages including ambulatory appendages and said appendage with said portion of said pressurizing means is a head.
- 9. The action figure of claim 1, wherein said avenue of release extends out of said body and through an appendage of said action figure with said nozzle being located in that appendage at the end of said avenue of release.
- 10. The action figure of claim 6, wherein said avenue of release extends out of said body and through an appendage of said action figure with said nozzle being located in that appendage at the end of said avenue of release.
- 11. The action figure of claim 1, wherein said water release means is a spring biased pinch bar that clamps said avenue of release, thus selectively restricting waterflow therethrough, and said water release means has a portion extending outwardly from said action figure to permit manual operation thereof.
- 12. The action figure of claim 11, wherein said spring biased pinch bar has a spring bias which is calibrated to yield to pressure within said avenue of release, when said pressure within said avenue of release exceeds a predetermined maximum value.
- 13. The action figure of claim 12, wherein said maximum value for the yielding of said spring bias to said pressure within said avenue of release is between about 50 pounds per square inch and about 90 pounds per square inch.
REFERENCE TO RELATED CASES
This application is a continuation-in-part of copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/841,762, filed on Feb. 28, 1992, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,150,819, by Bruce M. D'Andrade and Lonnie Johnson, for "Double Tank Pinch Trigger Pump Water Gun" and is a File Wrapper Continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/680,247, filed on Apr. 3, 1991, abandoned having the same inventors and title, which is a continuation-in-part of previously copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/578,145, filed on Sep. 6, 1990, having the same inventors, for "Pinch Trigger Pump Water Gun", now U.S. Pat. No. 5,074,437, issued on Dec. 24, 1991. The subject matter contained in the above referenced cases common to this application and embodied in the claimed subject matter herein, is the invention of Bruce M. D'Andrade, the inventor herein.
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