AUTOMATIC PISTOL HOLSTER

• US 3,804,306 A
• Filed: 06/08/1972
• Issued: 04/16/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Salvador R. Azurin
• Original Assignee: Salvador R. Azurin
• Inventors: Azurin, Salvador R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Forlenza, Gerald M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Forsberg, Jerold M.
• Application Number:
  US05/260,784
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• Field of Search: 224/2B,2C,1R,2A,3,5R
• US Class Current: 224/193
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 33/0227 having a strap or other restraining element only covering the hammer or a part of the upper part of the small arm
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 33/0272 having means for facilitating or accelerating the drawing of the small arm from the holster
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 33/0281 with means for assisting in cocking or loading the small arm
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/911 Handgun holder formed of leather, fabric, or other flexible material

Abstract

A holster for a pistol has an outer shell adapted to accommodate the pistol. Located within the shell is a cocking member which engages the slide of the pistol so that, if the latter is initially depressed before being drawn from the holster, the slide will be retained by the cocking member and the pistol will thus be in cocked condition at the time it is subsequently withdrawn from the holster.

Claims

1. A pistol holster comprising, in combination, a sheet material member having a transverse first portion and a pair of flap portions which extend from a surface of said first portion in transversely spaced relationship, said flap portions having free edges which define opposite and spaced from said first portion an open side, one of said flap portions being adapted to face towards the body of a user and having a normally upper part provided with a donwwardly folded extension which forms a belt loop and includes an ear overlying and secured to said first portion;

a reinforcing strap member being secured to outwardly directed sides of said one flap portion and of said first portion and having in the region of said open side a substantially tubular portion;

a spring member connected to said free edges of said flap portions and to said tubular portion for biasing the flat together; and

a cocking member located in the region of said first portion and rigidly connected with said strap member between said flap portions so as to engage the slide of an automatic pistol lodged in said holster, whereby initial depressing of the pistol in said holster results in retention of said slide against downward movement aNd consequent cocking of the pistol, so that the pistol can thereafter be drawn from said holster either upwardly or rearwardly from between the biased flaps in cocked condition.

2. A pistol holster as defined in claim 1 and further comprising retaining straps for securing an automatic pistol in said holster against unintentional disengagement therefrom.

3. A pistol holster as defined in claim 1, wherein said strap member is of metallic material.

4. A pistol holster as defined in claim 1, wherein said cocking member is of synthetic plastic material.

5. A pistol holster comprising, in combination, a sheet material member having a transverse first portion and a pair of flap portions which extend from a surface of said first portion in transversely spaced relationship, said flap portions having free edges which define opposite and spaced from said first portion an open side, one of said flap portions being adapted to face towards the body of a user and having a normally upper part provided with a downwardly folded extension which forms a belt loop and includes an ear overlying and secured to said first portion;

a channel member connected to said first portion;

an insert member secured to an inner side of said sheet material member;

a spring member connected to said free edges for biasing the edge together and configurated for engaging and retaining a pistol lodged in said holster; and

a cocking member aligned with said channel member and rigidly secured to an inner side of said insert member, said cocking member being positioned to engage the slide of an automatic pistol lodged in said holster, whereby initial depressing of the pistol results in retention of said slide against downward movement and consequent cocking of the pistol, so that the pistol can thereafter be drawn from said holster either upwardly or rearwardly from between the biased flaps in cocked condition.