Safety device for guns
AssigneeWeatherby, Inc.
InventorFred Jennie
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Abstract
A safety mechanism for guns having an openable breech. Guns of this type have a manual lever for operating the breech locking mechanism. The invention provides a linkage between this lever and a trigger block member which prevents trigger actuation. As a result, the gun cannot be fired unless the breech is in a fully closed and locked position.
Claims8
In a firearm having a breech which can be opened and closed, the gun having a trigger means and having a safety mechanism including a trigger block which is positionalbe into a firing position into a safety position, the gun having lever means for unlocking and locking the breech in a closed position, the improvement comprising a linkage extending between said lever means and said trigger block whereby when the lever means is out of the closed and locked position of the breech, said trigger block is moved out of the said firing position and into a position wherein actuation of the trigger for firing is prevented, said trigger block having means movable to cooperate with a fixed part of the firearm to allow firing when said block is in said firing position.
In a firearm having a receiver and a breech, a safety member carried by the firearm, trigger means, block means actuatable by the safety member and cooperable with the trigger means to block the trigger means against actuation when the safety member is in a safe position, a movable member carried by the block means and cooperable with the trigger means to block operation of the trigger means, fixed means cooperable with the movable member providing a single discrete predetermined position wherein the movable member is allowed to move relative to the said block means, the movement of the said movable member in the said single position being sufficient to allow the trigger means to be actuated, the trigger means being blocked in any position of the movable member other than said predetermined position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.