US 4,306,487 AGranted

Safety device for a pistol

AssigneeFabbrica D'Armi Pietro Beretta S.p.A.

InventorPier C. Beretta

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Abstract

In a pistol of the type having a firing pin formed of two linearly consecutive elements, that are either aligned or non-aligned with each other, a sear for engaging the hammer and an arming trigger bar for arming the trigger there is provided a safety device comprising a safety shaft transversely mounted in the breech block and carrying the rearward portion of the two-part firing pin. The safety shaft is angularly displaceable about its own axis, so as to activate and deactivate the firing pin. Further, the device has an intermediate rocker lever that engages a first cam surface of the safety shaft so as to arrest the sear in an inactive position when the firing pin is deactivated. This intermediate rocker lever is pivoted on the crown of the weapon so as to be positioned between the safety shaft and the sear. There is also provided a spring-loaded piston guided within the breech block and engaged by a second cam surface of the safety shaft, so as to act upon the trigger bar and to disengage the trigger bar from the sear when the firing pin is deactivated.

Claims4

Dependent claims

Safety means for an automatic pistol of the type having a firing pin mounted on a breech block and formed of two elements, the rear one of which is movable into non-alignment with respect to the front one, and further having a sear for engaging the hammer of the pistol, and a trigger bar to arm the trigger of the pistol and associated with the sear thereof, said safety means comprising a safety shaft transversely mounted on the breech block and carrying the rear element of the firing pin;

said shaft being displaceable and positionable angularly about its own axis so as to activate and deactivate the firing pin;
an intermediate rocker lever engaged by a first cam surface provided on said shaft and associated with the sear to arrest the sear in the inactive position when the firing pin is deactivated;
said rocker lever being positioned on the crown of the pistol and to extend between said shaft and the sear;
and by a spring-loaded piston mounted in the breech block and engaged by a second cam surface on said shaft, to act on the trigger bar and displace it so as to engage it from the trip sear when the firing pin is deactivated.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 06/012,308Filed 15 Feb 1979
Priority: IT 5132 A/7824 Feb 1978
Granted: 22 Dec 1981
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Classification4 codes

F41A 17/74
Safety arrangements, e.g. safeties: hammer safeties, i.e. means for preventing the hammer from hitting the cartridge or the firing pin
F41A 17/64
Safety arrangements, e.g. safeties: firing-pin safeties, i.e. means for preventing movement of slidably- mounted strikers
F41A 17/72
Firing-pin safeties, i.e. means for preventing movement of slidably- mounted strikers: trigger-operated, i.e. the movement of the trigger bringing…
F41A
Functional features or details common to both smallarms and ordnance