Foldable butt particularly suited for rifle convertible into a grenade thrower

• US 3,256,632 A
• Filed: 03/10/1965
• Issued: 06/21/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Carlo Beretta Pier
• Original Assignee: Carlo Beretta Pier
• Inventors: CARLO BERETTA PIER
• Application Number:
  US04/438,692
• Time in Patent Office: 468 Days
• US Class Current: 42/72
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 23/00 Butts; Butt plates; Stocks handles for carrying smallarms F41C33/08
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 23/04 Folding or telescopic stocks or stock parts articulated or collapsible guns F41A11/04
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 23/06 Stocks or firearm frames specially adapted for recoil reduction
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 27/06 Adaptations of smallarms for firing grenades, e.g. rifle grenades, or for firing riot-control ammunition; Barrel attachments therefor signal pistols F41C3/02

Claims

1. A FOLDABLE BUTT PARTICULARLY SUITED FOR A RIFLE CONVERTIBLE INTO A GRENADE-THROWER, COMPRISING A SUPPORT FIXED TO THE REAR PORTION OF THE STOCK OF RIFLE, A ROD HINGED AT ONE OF ITS ENDS TO A FIRST PIN MOUNTED ON SAID SUPPORT, A HEEL OF ELASTIC MATERIAL FIXED TO THE OPPOSITE END OF SAID ROD, A GRIP PIVOTAL AROUND A SECOND PIN MOUNTED ON SAID ROD ADJACENT SAID OPPOSITE END THEREOF, MEANS TO HOLD SAID ROD AGAINST ROTATION AROUND SAID FIRST PIN SELECTIVELY IN ONE OF TWO POSITIONS IN ONE OF WHICH SAID ROD PROJECTS REARWARDLY OF THE STOCK OF SAID RIFLE IN SUBSTANTIAL ALIGNMENT WITH THE AXIS OF THE RIFLE, AND IN THE OTHER OF WHICH SAID ROD IS POSITIONED ALONGSIDE THE STOCK OF SAID RIFLE, MEANS FOR HOLDING SAID GRIP SUBSTANTIALLY NORMAL TO SAID ROD, SAID ONE END OF SAID ROD HAVING A PLATE INTEGRAL WITH IT IN WHICH A BORE IS PROVIDED AND IN THE PERIMETER OF WHICH THERE ARE PROVIDED TWO NOTCHES, SAID PLATE BEING MOUNTED IN A SLOT PROVIDED IN SAID SUPPORT WITH SAID FIRST PIN EXTENDING THROUGH SAID BORE, SAID SUPPORT HAVING A BORE IN WHICH THERE IS MOUNTED A RECIPROCABLE PUSH-BUTTON HAVING ONE END PROJECTING FROM THE SURFACE OF THE SUPPORT AND ITS OTHER END SEATED AGAINST A SPRING HOUSED IN THE SECOND-NAMED BORE, SAID PUSH-BUTTON HAVING A PORTION SHAPED IN A MANNER SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLEMENTARY TO THE SHAPED OF EACH ONE OF SAID TWO NOTCHES, THE POSITION OF SAID NOTCHES ON SAID DISC AND THE POSITION OF THE SHAPED PORTION OF PUSH-BUTTON BEING SUCH THAT THE SHAPED PORTION ENGAGES, WHEN THE PUSH-BUTTON IS RELEASED, WITH ONE OF SAID TWO NOTCHES THEREBY PREVENTING SAID PLATE FROM ROTATING WHEN SAID ROD IS IN EITHER OF SAID TWO POSITIONS, SAID PUSH-BUTTON NOT BEING IN CONTACT WITH SAID PLATE WHEN IT IS DEPRESSED.