US3777381A - Firearm carrying handle and sight protector - Google Patents

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US3777381A
US3777381A US00142608A US3777381DA US3777381A US 3777381 A US3777381 A US 3777381A US 00142608 A US00142608 A US 00142608A US 3777381D A US3777381D A US 3777381DA US 3777381 A US3777381 A US 3777381A
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D Ketterer
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41G—WEAPON SIGHTS; AIMING
    • F41G1/00—Sighting devices
    • F41G1/06—Rearsights
    • F41G1/065—Protection means therefor
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A33/00—Adaptations for training; Gun simulators
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41C—SMALLARMS, e.g. PISTOLS, RIFLES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
    • F41C33/00—Means for wearing or carrying smallarms
    • F41C33/08—Handles for carrying smallarms
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41G—WEAPON SIGHTS; AIMING
    • F41G1/00—Sighting devices

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  • the invention relates to improvements in firearms, especially an automatic hand firearm, with a carrier handle fitted to the upper side of the firearm casing or receiver.
  • On the other hand sighting devices are fitted to the receiver of hand firearms and represent projecting parts which often have depressions and undercut portions so that the firearm can easily become caught up at the sighting devices if the user must move for example in dense undergrowth.
  • projecting sight devices which are often quite delicate, are subjected to particularly severe shocks which may easily lead to damage of the relatively delicate sighting devices.
  • Optical sighting devices are particularly sensitive to mechanical stresses, being used not only in the form of target telescopes by snipers but used in the form of small sightsfor normal firearms.
  • the invention is directed to the problem of increasing the scope of application of carrier handles known for hand firearms so that the costs for such carrier handlescan be more satisfactorily provided for and the user of the firearm is more inclined to accept the additional weight.
  • the carrier handle isarranged also as a protective hood for a sighting device and embodies, apart from lateral grip openings, sight apertures at its two ends.
  • the carrier handle serves the double purpose of facilitating carrying the firearm and also of protecting the sighting device against damage-by external influences.
  • a protective hood can have a smooth and rounded outer surface so that catching up of the firearm by this protective hood is less probable than with projecting irregular shaped sighting components.
  • the use of the carrier handle in the hand firearm according to the invention as a protective hood for a sighting device is of particular advantage if the firearm embodies a known optical small sight as the sighting device since these optical sighting devices are very sensitive to external influences so that without such a protective hood they are of little use for normally used firearms especially for military firearms which must withstand very rough handling.
  • the carrier handle is formed by a tubular hollow body of approximatelyrectangular cross-section which embodies near its forward end the lateral grip openings and the sighting device is arranged between the rearwardly extending side walls beyond the grip openings.
  • a hollow body is of high strength, can be very easily pro quizd and can also be fastened easily to the upper side of the firearm receiver.
  • the wall of the tubular hollow body bearing on the firearm receiver is conveniently recessed in the region of the sighting device in order that the sighting device can be secured to the upper side of the receiver independently of the carrier handle.
  • a further arrangement of the invention provides that the carrier handle is pivotally connected at one of its ends to the receiver and is latched to the receiver at the other end.
  • this hollow body is advantageously pivotally mounted at its forward end.
  • the hollow body may embody side wall sections projecting over the sighting devices between which a locking device is secured. The pivoting of the hollow body at its forward end permits the upwardly folded carrier handle to have a substantial spacing from the sighting device which permits free access to the sighting device and moreover the forces occurring during carrying the firearm operate in the neighbourhood of the pivot bearing for the carrier handle and therefore the lock is not excessively loaded.
  • a very reliable and yet very simple lock is obtained in one construction of the invention by a locking device which comprises a bearing member provided at the locked end of the carrier handle in which a guide rod is supported displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the carrier handle and loaded by means of a coil spring arranged concentrically to it, which carries a locking bar extending transversely to it and guided in side walls of the carrier handle. Furthermore a catch surrounding the locking bar is secured to the upper side of the receiver.
  • the viewing opening provided at the forward end of the carrier handle can be defined by a preferably circular ring.
  • FIG. 1 is a side view of an automatic firearm according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a front view in the direction of the arrow II of the carrier handle with the sighting device of the firearm according to FIG. 1 arranged beneath it,
  • FIG. 3 is a plan in the direction of the arrow III on the carrier handle of the firearm according to FIG. 1,
  • FIG. 4 is a section along the line IV-IV through the carrier handle according to FIG. 3 as well as a side elevation of the upper portion of the receiver of the firearm according to FIG. 1 and the sighting device fastened to it, and
  • FIG. is a section on the line V--V through the arrangement according to FIG. 4.
  • FIG. 1 One example of an automatic firearm is shown in FIG. 1 and embodies a carrier handle 2 on the upper side of the receiver 1 thereof which, as shown particularly by FIGS. 2 to 4, is formed by a tubular hollow body of approximately rectangular cross-section.
  • This hollow body incorporates in each side wall a grip opening 3 which extends in height from the upper wall 4 as far as the lower wall 5 of the hollow body and continues nearly to the front end of the hollow body.
  • These lateral grip openings 3 are limited at the front end of the hollow body 2 by webs 6 which join together the upper and lower wall 4 or 5 of the hollow body 2 and together with the joining portions of these walls form a circular ring which surrounds the front viewing opening of the carrier handle 2.
  • an optical small sight 7 In the portion of the hollow body 2 leading from the lateral grip openings 3, which is still covered by the upper wall 4 of the hollow body, there is located an optical small sight 7 the eye-piece 8 of which is fitted to the back of a casing part 9 of the small sight 7 which terminates at the rear edge of the upper wall 4 of the hollow body 2.
  • the small sight 7 is held in a carrier 10 secured to the upper side of the receiver 1. in order that the fastening of the carrier 10 and thus of the optical small sight 7 to the upper side of the receiver 1 is possible, the lower wall 5 of the hollow body 2 forming the carrier handle adjacent to the receiver is recessed in the region of the carrier member 10 with the optical small sight.
  • the hollow body 2 is pivotally connected at its forward end with the receiver 1 and locked to the receiver near its near end.
  • a triangular lug 11 is secured to the upper side of the receiver 1, for example welded to it, which engages in a slot 12 formed at the forward end of the hollow body 2 in the region of the transition between the lower wall 5 and the projecting webs 6.
  • a bearing pin 13 traverses the lug 11 which also engages in bores formed in portions of the lower wall part 5 of the hollow body 2 defining the slot 12.
  • the pin 13 extends transversely to the longitudinal direction of the receiver 1 and of the carrier handle 2 and thus also transversely to the sight line defined by the optical small sight 7.
  • the side walls of the hollow body 2 are extended beyond the rear edge of the upper wall 4 and form triangular side wall portions 14 the upper edges of which approach the upper side of the receiver 1' at an acute angle.
  • a filler block 15 which comprises a front and a rear cross wall l6, 17 respectively.
  • These cross walls l6, l7 connect the side wall portions 14 and are themselves joined at their upper ends by a further wall section 18 so that the filler block 15, in conjunction with parts of the side wall portions 14, forms a type of downwardly open casing.
  • a guide pin 19 displaceable in its longitudinal direction is supported in the cross walls 16 and 17 of the carrier block 15 in coincident bores, on which at about the centre there is fastened a transversely arranged locking bar 20 which in turn engages at its ends in slots 21 formed in the side wall portions 14.
  • a coil spring 22 is arranged on the guide pin 19, which on the one hand rests against the inner side of the front cross wall 16, and on the other hand on the locking bar 20 and tends to engage the locking bar 20 at its ends against the rearward ends of the slots 21.
  • the ends of the locking bar 20 project from the side wall portions 14 of the carrier handle 2 so that they are easily engageable for sliding the locking bar 20 in the slots 21.
  • a catch 23 is secured to the upper side of the receiver 1 which engages in the casing formed internally of the carrier block 15 and embodies a semi-circular recess on one end face in which the locking bar 20 is allowed to engage under the pressure of the coil spring 21.
  • the coil spring 21 holds the locking bar 20 reliably in the recess of the catch 23 forming a catch groove so that the carrier handle 2 is rigidly connected to the receiver 1 both at its front end and at its rear end, which is not releasable from the carrier handle by the action of external forces.
  • the carrier handle 2 forms a protective hook surrounding the optical small sight 7, and embodies, apart form the lateral grip openings 3, a rearward sight opening substantially filled by the casing part 9 of the optical small sight 7 and moreover a front sight opening defined by the webs 6.
  • the invention is not lim ited to the protection of special sighting devices but other sighting devices for example V- or binocular arrangements can be located beneath the protective hood formed by the carrier handle 2.
  • car rier handles can also be fastened in desired ways to the firearm, for example screwed on, if it is not necessary or even desired that the user of the firearm has access to the sighting device.
  • the external form of the carrier handle will be selected both according to the shape of the firearm and also the shape of the surrounded sight. In this case attempts are always made that the grip openings lie approximately over the centre of gravity of the firearm. In the firearm shown as a constructional example this condition is fulfilled and also the sight is located at the best point for handling the firearm.
  • Hand firearm incorporating a carrier handle which also serves as a protective hood for a sighting device and embodies sighting apertures at its two ends and lat eral grip openings, characterized in that the carrier handle is formed by a tubular hollow body of approximately rectangular cross-section which embodies the lateral grip openings near its front end, and the sighting device is arranged between side walls lying behind the grip openings.
  • Hand firearm according to claim 1 characterized in that the tubular hollow body is pivotally supported at its front end and embodies side wall sections projecting at its rear end beyond the sighting device and a locking device secured between said wall sections.
  • Hand firearm according to claim 1 characterized in that the carrier handle embodies a filler block at its locking end in which a guide pin is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the carrier handle and is loaded by a coil spring arranged concentrically to it,
  • Hand firearm according to claim 1 characterized in that a viewing opening provided at the front end of the carrier handle is limited by a preferably circular rin 5 Hand firearm according to claim 1, characterized in that the firearm embodies an optical small sight as the sighting device.
  • Hand firearm incorporating a carrier handle which also serves as a protective hood for a sighting device

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US9372049B2 (en) * 2014-06-03 2016-06-21 Ncstar, Inc. Handle sight
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US4827652A (en) * 1987-10-02 1989-05-09 Martin Ernest J T Cocking-bar, target-framing and range-finding, carrying, hanging and standing device
USD667072S1 (en) * 2010-06-06 2012-09-11 ISSC Handels GmbH Semi-automatic fire arm
US9372049B2 (en) * 2014-06-03 2016-06-21 Ncstar, Inc. Handle sight
US20210231407A1 (en) * 2020-01-24 2021-07-29 Axts Inc Optic guard for firearm
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