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US 2016/0109207 A1Published application
Hybrid left handed 1911 pistol
AssigneeBig Horn Armory, Inc.
InventorsGregory E. Buchel, Daniel Brown
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Abstract
A left handed handgun which allows the use of conventional right handed unmodified magazines. The handgun assembly is adapted for left handed operation including the frame, slide, ejector, firing pin stop area, and extractor to accommodate the left handed user and eject empty cartridge cases away from the left handed user.
Claims20
A 1911 style handgun that uses right handed 1911 conventional magazines, comprising:
- a frame operable to receive the magazine holding a plurality of cartridges;
- a slide including an ejection port that is leftwardly facing;
- an extractor adjacent the ejector port;
- an ejector located rightwardly of the extractor and coupled to the frame, said ejector operable to cause an empty casing to eject from the handgun via the ejection port.
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A 1911 pistol, comprising:
- a frame including a grip portion operable to receive and hold a magazine having one or more cartridges;
- a slide operably slideably coupled to the frame;
- an ejection port that is provided on the slide and leftwardly facing;
- a barrel;
- an extractor device adjacent the barrel;
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- an ejector device located rightwardly of the extractor and coupled to the frame;
- wherein at least the ejector device, extractor device and ejection port are located operably to cause an empty casing to eject from the ejection port of the pistol in a leftwardly direction relative to a user holding the pistol in the left hand.
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A pistol assembly including leftwardly facing features and uses right handed conventional magazines, comprising:
- a receiver operable to receive the right handed magazines;
- a pair of holes formed in an upwardly facing surface of the receiver;
- a barrel including a barrel chamber;
- a firing pin device adjacent a firing pin stop;
- an ejector device operably coupled to the receiver by the pair of holes;
- a slide, said slide containing the barrel, firing pin device and ejector device;
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- an extractor device, said extractor device operable to pull an empty casing from the barrel chamber;
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- wherein at least the ejector device, extractor device and ejection port are operably located in the receiver and slide, respectively, to cause the ejected empty casing leaving the ejection port of the pistol to travel in a leftwardly direction away from a user holding the pistol assembly in their left hand.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.