Truncheon holster

• US 5,551,610 A
• Filed: 07/15/1994
• Issued: 09/03/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Norman E. Clifton Jr
• Original Assignee: Norman E. Clifton Jr
• Inventors: Clifton, Norman E. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Recla, Henry J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vidovich, Gregory M.
• Application Number:
  US08/275,582
• Time in Patent Office: 781 Days
• Field of Search: 224/191, 224/194, 224/195, 224/197, 224/200, 224/247, 224/253, 224/914, 224/242, 224/243, 224/234, 224/193, 224/196, 224/198, 224/244, 224/911, 224/912, 224/232, 224/226 , 224/192, 224/904, D 3/229
• US Class Current: 224/197
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0566 Tubular, rod-shaped articles, e.g. batons
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0575 Portable tools
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/02 Fastening articles to the garment
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/021 to the belt
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/914 Carrier for handcuffs, blackjack, club, or other equipment carried by policeman

Abstract

Holster for a truncheon, the holster being a unitary folded substantially sheet which is folded along a front portion and having meeting edges along a rear portion, and a transverse screw-and-nut combination connecting the two folded portions of the sheet to provide an adjustment to the clamping action of the holster to the truncheon. An optional keeper strap with a quick-opening fastener, and a thumb-engageable tab may be included to maintain the truncheon securely in the holster until the tab is pushed to open the holster. A pivotable belt loop member is attached to the holster and is adjustable to provide convenient positions for supporting the holster and truncheon in any position.

Claims

1. A clam-shell holster for a truncheon having an elongated staff and a hand grip, said holster being adapted to be worn adjacent a wearer'"'"'s waist to dispose said staff along a wearer'"'"'s back, said holster including an inside wall, and an outside wall spring biased through a rear fold integral with said inside and outside walls, an open top adjacent the wearer'"'"'s waist, an open bottom remote from the wearer'"'"'s waist, an open front extending between said open top and bottom, a belt loop connected to said inside wall, and a mechanical means attached between the inside and outside walls to adjust the strength of said spring bias, said holster retaining the truncheon with the hand grip directed downwardly through said open bottom and the staff directed upwardly through said open top from the wearer'"'"'s waist to adjacent the wearer'"'"'s shoulder.

2. The holster of claim 1 wherein said inside wall and said outside wall are portions of a unitary folded sheet of molded plastic material, adapted to clamp around the truncheon at a position intermediate to the hand grip and the staff.

3. The holster of claim 1 which additionally includes an open rear port adjacent and below said rear fold to receive and support a portion of the cross guard on the truncheon.

4. The holster of claim 3 wherein the cross guard consists essentially of a single arm extending laterally from the staff.

5. The holster of claim 3 wherein said holster includes means for accommodating the cross guard which includes two arms extending laterally in opposite directions outward from the staff of the truncheon.

6. The holster of claim 1 wherein said holster includes a pivotal attachment screw, said belt loop having an arcuate slot positioned at a fixed radius from said attachment screw, and a clamping screw positioned in said slot and adapted to clamp said belt loop at any selected position.

7. The holster of claim 1 which additionally comprises a keeper strap connected to said outside wall and extending transversely across said open front, a quick opening snap fastener on said inside wall, a thumb-engageable tab attached to said snap fastener for releasable attaching said strap to said snap fastener.

8. The holster of claim 7 which additionally includes a springy reinforcement strip affixed to said tab and adapted to facilitate the unfastening of said snap fastener.

9. The holster of claim 7 wherein said tab extends upwardly from said snap fastener.

10. The holster of claim 1 further comprising a keeper strap having one end affixed to said outside wall and extending across said open front and a releasable fastener connecting between an opposite end of said strap and said inside wall.

11. The holster of claim 10 further comprising a tab extending laterally of said keeper strap adjacent said releasable fastener means said strap being openable by the wearer'"'"'s thumb pressing inwardly on said tab.

12. A quick-opening holster to support from a wearer'"'"'s belt a truncheon having an elongated staff, a hand grip at one end of said staff and a cross guard of two oppositely directed short arms extending laterally outward from the staff adjacent the hand grip;

said holster comprising a unitary substantially inflexible sheet folded to a shape having an inside wall, an outside wall, an interior void, an open top, an open bottom, an open rear port and an open front, an adjustment screw attached to said outside wall and engaged with a nut attached to said inside wall to provide adjustment to a force required to pull said walls apart from each other, a keeper strap having one end affixed to said outside wall and extending across said open front, a releasable fastener connecting between an opposite end of said strap and said inside wall, and an adjustable belt loop pivotally attached to said inside wall;

said holster retaining the truncheon with the hand grip directed downwardly through said open bottom and the staff directed upwardly through said open top from the wearer'"'"'s waist to adjacent the wearer'"'"'s shoulder.

13. The holster of claim 12 wherein said sheet is a folded plastic composition.

14. The holster of claim 13 wherein said molded sheet provides a spring bias action tending to close said walls upon each other.

15. The holster of claim 12 wherein said folded portion of said sheet is positioned to extend from said open top to said open rear port.

16. The holster of claim 12 which additionally includes a thumb-engagable semi-flexible tab extending upwardly from said keeper strap adjacent said releasable fastener on said inside wall.

17. The holster of claim 14 which additionally includes a stiffening strip on said tab extending substantially the length of said tab with one end thereof affixed to said releasable fastener on said inside wall.

18. The holster of claim 12 wherein said keeper strap is a flexible strap.

19. The holster of claim 12 wherein said belt loop is a molded plastic member pivotally attached to a pivot screw on said inside wall and having an arcuate slot positioned about said pivot screw and a clamping screw engaged in said slot and adapted to clamp said belt loop in a fixed selected position.