Security means for a pistol holster

• US 5,573,157 A
• Filed: 06/13/1994
• Issued: 11/12/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gerald Mauriello, Patrick Carrow
• Original Assignee: Gerald Mauriello, Patrick Carrow
• Inventors: Mauriello, Gerald, Carrow, Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Luebke, Renee S.
• Application Number:
  US08/258,838
• Time in Patent Office: 883 Days
• Field of Search: 224/243, 224/244, 224/911, 224/912
• 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: Y10S 224/911 Handgun holder formed of leather, fabric, or other flexible material

Abstract

A security system for use in a pistol holster for the selectable engagement and disengagement of the trigger guard of a pistol or gun. The system, more particularly, includes a segment of a resilient material having a free first end and a second end rigidly affixed to a lower internal co-planar holster surface facing away from the torso of the user, the first end defining a substantial U-shaped portion within a plane substantially transverse to the internal surface of the holster, the U-shaped portion proportioned, in geometry and resilience, to engage the trigger guard responsive to an application of downward pressure upon the first end of the segment by the trigger guard. The security system further includes an element for selectable urging the U-shaped portion of the segment off of the trigger guard responsive to pressure applied onto the top of a release element slidably secured within the holster surface. This is located at an upper part of the holster between the inner surface and the body of the user, and an opposite end of the release element in cam-like engagement with the U-shaped portion.

Claims

1. In a pistol holster, an improved security system for a trigger guard of a pistol, the system comprising:

(a) a segment of a resilient material having a first end that is free and a second end rigidly affixed to a lower internal co-planar holster surface of said holster facing away from a torso of a user thereof, said first end defining a substantially U-shaped portion within a plane substantially transverse to said internal surface of said holster, said U-shaped portion proportioned, in geometry and resilience, to engage said trigger guard responsive to an application of downward pressure upon said first end of said segment by said trigger guard; and

(b) an L-shaped rigid member, slidably secured between said holster and said torso, having a button-like element at a top of a vertical portion of a lower horizontal portion engageable with said U-shaped portion of said segment upon depression of said top of said vertical portion of said L-shaped rigid member,

whereby a depression of said top of said L-shaped rigid member urges said segment off of said trigger guard.

2. The system as recited as claim 1, in which a free end of said L-shaped member engagable with said U-shaped portion includes cam means.