Security Holster for revolver-pistol

• US 4,463,884 A
• Filed: 09/19/1983
• Issued: 08/07/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Henry J. Parlante
• Original Assignee: Henry J. Parlante
• Inventors: Parlante, Henry J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shoap, Allan N.
• Application Number:
  US06/533,230
• Time in Patent Office: 323 Days
• Field of Search: 224/243, 224/242, 224/244, 224/245, 224/246, 224/238, 224/911, 224/912, 224/192, 224/193, 224/198
• US Class Current: 224/243
• 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: Y10S 224/911 Handgun holder formed of leather, fabric, or other flexible material

Abstract

A revolver pistol holster having a trigger-guard-retaining upper rearward top wall and a W-shaped spring mounted on holster upper forward opposing side walls biasing the holster upper-forward side-wall portions toward one-another, with a central portion of the W-shaped spring being mounted against a forward wall portion connecting the side wall, such that the forward wall portion at an upper location is biased toward the trigger-guard-retaining upper rearward top wall whereby a holstered pistol is biased into a trigger-guard-retained position within the holster, and an upper forward portion of an inward side wall having a major upwardly projecting portion serving as a thumb-brace facilitatable of drawing a holstered pistol grip-handle upwardly and forwardly.

Claims

1. A holster for a pistol having frame, barrel, trigger guard and hand-grip handle, comprising in combination:

a pistol holster having spaced-apart inward and outward side walls connected at forward and rearward edges including a forward connecting wall, and the inward and outward side walls being connected at a rearward-top location by a rearward-top wall positioned to block vertical draw of the trigger guard of the holstered pistol, and an upper portion of said forward wall at an upper location being flexible and movable in each of opposite horizontal directions forwardly and reawardly such that the pistol when holstered is drawable obliquely forwardly of said rearward-top wall when said upper portion is flexed forwardly, an improvement being a serpentinely-shaped resilient spring inclusive of at least one central upwardly-extending leg having upper and bottom opposite ends thereof, the bottom end being continuous with at least one upwardly-extending outer leg anchored in at least one of said inward and outward side walls such that upper forward portions of the inward and outward side walls are biased toward one another, and said one central upwardly-extending leg being biased rearwardly against said upper portion such that the upper portion is biased rearwardly against a pistol frame when holstered with its trigger guard beneath said rearward-top wall.

2. A holster of claim 1, in which said spring includes a second central upwardly-extending leg and a second upwardly-extending outer leg, the second central outwardly-extending leg having second upper and bottom opposite ends thereof, the second bottom end being continuous with said second upwardly-extending outer leg, said second upwardly-extending outer leg being anchored in a remaining one of said inward and outward side walls such that upper forward portions of the inward and outward side walls are biased toward one another, and said second central upwardly-extending leg being biased rearwardly against said upper portion such that the upper portion is biased rearwardly against a pistol frame when holstered with its trigger guard beneath said reaward-top wall.

3. A holster of claim 1, in which a forward upper portion of said inward side wall is substantially rigid and is shaped to extend upwardly a predetermined major distance such that a person'"'"'s thumb is braceable thereon facilitatable of drawing the handle upwardly and forwardly.

4. A holster of claim 3, including a holster brace-plate mounted on said inward side wall and said forward portion thereof.

5. A holster of claim 1, in which said serpentinely-shaped spring is substantially W-shaped.

6. A holster of claim 1, including a belt-mounting closed-loop having inward and outward loop-side walls, and a loop brace-plate mounted on one of said loop-side walls and rigidly joined to said inward side wall such that the inward and outward side walls are sturdy against malicious ripping outwardly of a holstered pistol.

7. A holster of claim 6, in which a forward upper portion of said inward side wall is substantially rigid and is shaped to extend upwardly a predetermined major distance such that a person'"'"'s thumb is braceable thereon facilitatable of drawing the handle upwardly and forwardly.

8. A holster of claim 6, including a holster brace-plate mounted on said inward side wall and said forward portion thereof.