Rifle with safety system

• US 4,926,574 A
• Filed: 10/24/1988
• Issued: 05/22/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dynamit Nobel AG
• Original Assignee: Dynamit Nobel AG
• Inventors: Rieger, Benedikt
• Primary Examiner(s): Jordan, Charles T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wendtland, Richard W.
• Application Number:
  US07/261,224
• Time in Patent Office: 575 Days
• Field of Search: 42/70.04, 42/70.05, 42/70.08
• US Class Current: 42/70.04
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 17/64 Firing-pin safeties, i.e. means for preventing movement of slidably- mounted strikers F41A17/02 - F41A17/40 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 19/34 Cocking mechanisms

Abstract

A rifle exhibits a cage axially movable in the barrel direction, a triggering system, except for the firing lever, being attached to this cage. Preferably, the cage is located within a base box through which extended cage axles are guided in slotted holes. By means of a safety including a cocking and, respectively, uncocking position, two conditions can be set from the rifle stock. In the safety position, the operative connection of the firing lever to a trigger sear lever is interrupted. Additionally, a pin at the trigger sear lever is caught in a slotted hole in the wall of the base box. When a shot is fired, the striker member overcomes a detent at the end of the catch lever because the catch lever can yield in the downward direction. During loading or repeating, the striker member is retracted, and the catch lever is again supported by the trigger sear lever (independently of whether a cocked or uncocked condition prevails). The safety slide can be mounted to the stock of the rifle in any position desired by the rifleman. On account of the optimum position at the neck of the stock, the slide can be operated almost instinctively. However, it is also possible to provide a resilient safety handle at the bottom of the rifle stock; the rifle is cocked only once this safety handle has been pressed against the stock by the trigger hand. When the rifleman lets go of the firearm, the base box moves on its own into the rest position, and the rifle is automatically uncocked.

Claims

1. A rifle, comprising a firing pin with a striker member and a cocking spring, a triggering system with a trigger, and safety means having a cocked position and an uncocked position operatively associated with the stock of the rifle, a guided cage movable in a direction of a barrel of the rifle, a catch lever rotationally movably attached to the cage engaging the striker member so that the firing pin can also be moved against a cocking spring with the cage, said catch lever releasing the striker member only in the cocked condition by operation of the trigger and a lever of the safety means that moves the cage being operable from a stock neck of the rifle.

2. A rifle according to claim 1, wherein a base box compassing the cage is provided, the trigger being attached to said box.

3. A rifle according to claim 1 further comprising a guide means for shifting the cage so that, in the cocked position, the striker member is maximally tensioned, and, in the uncocked position, any contact of a primer cap of a cartridge by a tip of the firing pin is precluded.

4. A rifle according to claim 2 further comprising a guide means for shifting the cage so that, in the cocked position, the striker member in maximally tensioned, and, in the uncooked position, any contact of a primer cap of the cartridge by a tip of the firing pin is precluded.

5. A rifle according to claim 1, wherein the movement of the cage is in the range of 5 mm.

6. A rifle according to claim 1, wherein the cage is guided by means of shafts passing through slotted holes at a base box secured to the stock of the rifle and supported at the cage.

7. A rifle according to claim 1, wherein the triggering system, except for the trigger is attached to the cage, and, in the uncocked position, an operative connection from the trigger to the catch lever and, respectively the striker member is interrupted.

8. A rifle according to claim 6, wherein a trigger sear lever is provided between the trigger and the catch lever, an edge of the catch lever resting on a shoulder of the trigger and yielding of a detent on the catch lever becomes possible only once the trigger sear lever in the cocked position, is rotated outwardly by the trigger.

9. A rifle according to claim 2, wherein the uncocked condition, at least a part of the trigerring system, especially the trigger sear lever, is caught in a recess in the base box.

10. A rifle according to claim 1, wherein the safety means comprise a supporting lever and a guide lever, one side of the supporting lever being attached to a base box, the other side of the supporting lever being connected to a leg of the guide lever, the guide lever being rotatable about an axle attached to the cage, and another leg of the guide lever being connected to a safety slide or a safety lever.

11. A rifle according to claim 9, wherein the safety slide is mounted on one side or on the top of the rifle stock.

12. A rifle according to claim 10, wherein the supporting lever is attached to the same axle as the trigger sear lever.

13. A rifle according to claim 12, wherein in the cocked condition, the supporting lever and a leg of the guide lever form an elongated bearing.

14. A rifle according to claim 13, wherein a screw is provided for fixing an abutment for the supporting lever in the cocked condition.

15. A rifle according to claim 14, wherein the ratio of the length of the legs of the guide lever is in the range of 1:

3.

16. A rifle according to claim 10, wherein a resilient safety handle is mounted at the stock so that the safety handle can be pressed by the trigger hand, and the safety means is cocked during this step, but, on account of a spring, the rifle will revert to its uncocked condition as soon as the safety handle is no longer pressed.

17. A rifle according to claim 16, characterized in that the safety handle is mounted to the same axle as the trigger sear lever.