Holster lock

• US 5,518,155 A
• Filed: 10/11/1994
• Issued: 05/21/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Richard N. Gallagher
• Original Assignee: Richard N. Gallagher
• Inventors: Gallagher, Richard N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Recla, Henry J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Eloshway, Charles R.
• Application Number:
  US08/320,268
• Time in Patent Office: 588 Days
• Field of Search: 224/242, 224/243, 224/244, 224/245, 224/246, 224/911
• US Class Current: 224/244
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 33/0209 Pouch or pocket like containers for small arms covering all or most of the small arm
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 33/0263 having a locking system for preventing unauthorized or accidental removal of the small arm from the holster F41C33/0227 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 33/04 Special attachments therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/911 Handgun holder formed of leather, fabric, or other flexible material

Abstract

A handgun holster includes a system for simultaneously contacting the trigger guard and muzzle of a handgun in the holster to prevent the handgun from being removed until desired by the wearer.

Claims

1. In combination with a handgun holster having a lockable and releasable trigger guard restraining device adapted to selectively prevent withdrawal of a handgun having a trigger guard from said holster, said holster having with respect to a wearer an inner wall, and outer wall, a front, a back, a top, a bottom, and inside, an outside, and a means for suspending said holster from a belt worn by a wearer,

the improvement which comprises a handgun restraining device attached to said inside of said holster at said back, said restraining device including

(a) a rigid body portion and two upwardly extending vertical side wall members adjacent opposite sides respectively of said body portion forming a channel adapted to receive therein a trigger guard of a handgun;

(b) a channel formed through said rigid body portion and extending from one of said side wall members to the other of said side wall members;

(c) a locking member including

(i) a first arm extending along one of said sides,

(ii) a second arm extending along the other of said sides,

(iii) a lock element attached to said second arm, and

(iv) a rod slidably extending through said channel and interconnecting said first and second arms such that said rod and said arms can be manually laterally displaced between two operative positions,

a first operative position with said lock element positioned to prevent withdrawal from said holster of a handgun having a trigger guard, and a second operative position with said lock element laterally displaced from said first operative position to permit the withdrawal from said holster of a handgun having a trigger guard.