Break-open action for sporting rifles

• US 4,691,462 A
• Filed: 03/26/1986
• Issued: 09/08/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dynamit Nobel AG
• Original Assignee: Dynamit Nobel AG
• Inventors: Mattarelli, Ennio
• Primary Examiner(s): Jordan, Charles T.
• Application Number:
  US06/844,134
• Time in Patent Office: 531 Days
• Field of Search: 42/75.01, 42/75.04, 42/75.02, 42/75.03, 42/73
• US Class Current: 42/75.04
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 7/11 Breakdown shotguns or rifles hinge-frame revolvers F41C3/16; breech mechanisms therefor F41A3/58; cocking mechanisms therefor F41A19/41

Abstract

A break-open action for sporting rifles comprising a forward part for connection with the at least one rifle barrel, which part can be releasably locked together with a rearward part by snug seats and corresponding fastening elements, and with the rearward part containing lock mechanisms for connection with the rifle stock.

Claims

1. A break-open action for sporting rifles, the break open action comprising a forward part for connection with at least one rifle barrel, means for releasably locking the forward part with a rearward part including snug seat means and fastening means, the rearward part including lock means for connection with a rifle stock, and wherein said seat means enables an angular adjustment about an axis disposed in a plane of the snug seat means.

2. A break-open action according to claim 1, wherein the snug seat means provide a variable angle between longitudinal axes of the forward and rearward parts and between the barrel and the stock, and wherein the angle about which a contact surface common to both the forward and rearward parts is inclined with respect to a perpendicular plane toward a firing direction of the rifle.