Push button controlled police baton

• US 6,231,447 B1
• Filed: 02/17/1998
• Issued: 05/15/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Safariland LLC
• Original Assignee: Monadnock Lifetime Products Incorporated (Safariland LLC)
• Inventors: Pelkey, Gary Lewis
• Primary Examiner(s): Pierce, William M.
• Application Number:
  US09/024,167
• Time in Patent Office: 1,183 Days
• Field of Search: 403/325, 403/350, 403/367, 403/368, 403/377, 285/302, 463/47.2, 463/47.7, 135/68-70, 135/72, 135/75
• US Class Current: 463/47.7
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 15/027 the telescoping sections being locked by an additional mechanical locking element
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/7052 Engaged by axial movement

Abstract

An expandable police baton having tubular members, and a positive lock with an axially positioned cam release mechanism, which will maintain the members in an expanded telescoped position and then can release the locking mechanism by pushing a single button at the rear thereof so that the members can slide over one another to a collapsed position convenient for carrying the baton.

Claims

1. A telescopic, multi-stage, positive lock tubular police baton comprising:

(a) a first elongated tubular handle section;

(b) a second elongated tubular middle section, the middle section adapted to telescopingly reciprocate within the handle section;

(c) a third elongated tubular inner section adapted to telescopingly reciprocate within the middle section;

(d) a first spring loaded locking member contacting the handle tubular section and the middle tubular section, the first locking member being adapted to lock the handle and middle tubular members together in their fully extended position;

(e) a second spring loaded locking member contacting the middle tubular section and inner tubular section, the second locking member being adapted to lock the middle and inner tubular members together in their fully extended position;

(f) a release mechanism for disengagement of the three elongated tubular members from their fully extended position to a collapsed position, the release mechanism comprising a spring-loaded push-button activated multistage camming member comprising a push rod with a first and a second camming surface, the rod extending axially into the handle, middle and inner tubular sections,

wherein the first camming surface is activated by the push button to disengage the first locking member contacting the handle tubular section and the middle section; and

wherein the second camming surface is activated by the push button to disengage a second locking member contacting the middle tubular section and the inner tubular section.

2. The multi-stage positive lock tubular police baton of claim 1, wherein said first and second camming surfaces are adapted to operate in separate stages to separately disengage said first and said second locking members.

3. The multi-stage positive lock tubular police baton of claim 2, wherein at least one of said baton tubular members is made from metal tubing.

4. The multi-stage positive lock tubular police baton of claim 3, wherein at least one of said baton tubular members is made from steel tubing.

5. The multi-stage positive lock tubular police baton of claim 4, wherein the steel tubing is an alloy steel.

6. The multi-stage positive lock tubular police baton of claim 5, wherein the steel alloy is 4130 steel.

7. The multi-stage positive lock tubular police baton of claim 6, wherein the steel is hardened to 38 to 44 on the Rockwell C Scale.

8. The multi-stage positive lock tubular police baton of claim 1, wherein at least one of said baton tubular members is made from aluminum tubing.

9. The multi-stage positive lock tubular police baton of claim 8, wherein the aluminum is 6061-T6.