Automatic safeties for guns

• US 3,222,809 A
• Filed: 06/08/1964
• Issued: 12/14/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harvard J. Bryan
• Original Assignee: Harvard J. Bryan
• Inventors: Bryan, Harvard J.
• Application Number:
  US04/373,388
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• US Class Current: 42/70.06
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 17/20 Grip or stock safeties, i.e. safeties disengaged by clasping the grip or stock thumb-operated sliding safeties F41A17/52, F41A17/62, F41A17/70, F41A17/80

Claims

1. THE COMBINATION WITH A GUN HAVING A TUBULAR BARREL AND FIRING ACTUATION MEANS WHICH MOVE GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID BARREL TO FIRE SAID GUN, AN AUTOMATIC SAFETY COMPRISING:

(A) AN EXTERNAL FINGER ATTACHED TO SAID GUN, SAID FINGER BEING MOVABLE ALONG A PATH GENERALLY TRANSVERSE TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID BARREL FROM A NORMAL POSITION TO AN ARMED POSITION AND HAVING A FIRING ACTUATION MEANS ENGAGING PORTION, (B) SAID FIRING ACTUATION MEANS ENGAGING PORTION OF SAID FINGER BEING IN ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID FIRING ACTUATION MEANS WHEN IN SAID NORMAL POSITION TO RESTRAIN ACTUATION THEREOF, (C) SAID FIRING ACTUATION MEANS ENGAGING PORTION OFF SAID FINGER BEING TRANSVERSELY DISPLACED TO POSITION IT OUT OF ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID FIRING ACTUATION MEANS WHEN IN AN ARMED POSITION, AND (D) BIASING MEANS URGING SAID FINGER INTO THE NORMAL POSITION.