US822886A - Lock for fore-end of gun-stocks. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JUNE 5 1Q06.

3. E. ELEER. LOCK FOR FQRE EIIBS 8P GUN STOCKS.

APPLIOATEOEI FILED JIHTE 19, 1905.

UNITED srA as PATENT orrron.

EDWARD H. ELDER, OF OHIOOPEE FALLS, MASSAOHUSETS, ASSIGNOR TO J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY, OF GHICOPEE FALLS, MASSA- CHUSETTS, A CORPORATION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 5, 1906.

Application filed June 19, 1905. Serial No. 265.960.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD H. ELDER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chico ee Falls, in the county of Hampden and tate of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Looks for the Fore-Ends of un-Stocks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to firearms, and particularly to means to secure the fore-end of the stock to the barrel in such manner that it will not work loose at the hinge when the barrels are of the breakdown type, it being to this type that the invention is more particularly applicable; and the invention consists in the construction of a lockin device which will not only lock the fore-en tightly against the under side of the barrel or barrels, but at the same time yieldingly press the same toward the end of the frame in contact with which it swings when the barrels are tipped down, all as fully described in the following specification and ointed out in the claim appended thereto, t e invention being fully illustrated in the accompanying draw in s, in which-- igure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a portion of a gun-barrel and of a foreend secured thereto by the locking device in which the invention has been embodied. Fig. 2is a bottom plan view of the same, showing the locking device in locked position. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a stud attached to the barrel and with which the locking-lever engages. Fig. 4 is a cross-section on line 4 4, Fig. 1, looking to the left.

In carrying out this invention a stud a is afiixed to the under side of the barrel or barrels b in an suitable way but preferably the stud is ma e, as shown in Fi 3, with a base 0, having beveled parallel e ges, adapted to be driven into a dovetail cut extending transversely of the under side of the barrel, as shown in Fig. 1, the stud being provided with a head at, or its equivalent, with which the hooked end 6 of a locking-lever f may engage, which lever is pivotally supported in the fore-end b, as at g.

To properl su port the device in the foreend, a plate is et into the latter flush with that surface thereof lying against the barrel, an o ening 3' being formed therein through whic the stud a may extend downwardly,

and in which opening the hooked and e of the lever f may have room to swing into and out of engagement with the stud. Let into the under side of the fore-end is another plate 7:, which is longitudinally slotted to receive the lever f, there being an opening .m through this plate through which the hooked end of the lever extends to permit its engagement with the stud a when the fore-end is applied to the barrel. The two plates are secured in their respective ositions by screws 0.

That part of t e lever f comprising the part through which the pin 9 passes, and the hooked end 6 is preferably made rigid, and the long arm of the lever f specifically indicated by is made thin enough to sprin and the bee ed end .2 is so proportioned t at when the end p is swung upward to efiect the en gagement thereof with the stud a, said hooked end will come into contact with the shank and with the head of the stud before the long arm p has swung up to a position flush with the fore-end. Therefore the continued movement of this long arm to bring it flush with the fore-end will flex it more or less, thusa pl 'ng a ieldin ressure against both the she and head 0 t e stud, where by the fore-end will be yieldingly pressed rearwardly toward the end of t e frame as and upwardly a ainst the under side of the barrel, a suitab e spring-actuated button r being located in the plate It to one over the end of thelong arm 1) of the loc 'n -lever when the latter swings into the slotte plate k to a position flush with said plate. This button 1 comprises a shank portion which plays in a longitudinally-dis osed slot s in the plate 1: and has one hea preferably integral therewith to slide on the outer surface of the plate and a second head riveted to the inner end of the shank, as shown in Fig. 1, a spring 2 servin to ress the button toward t e forward on of t e slot, as shown, where by it may be pushed back by the end of the lever f when the latter is swung against its edge and then snap over said end'to hold it as described. Any other fastening device for the end of the lever f may be substituted for the particular one described herein.

Secured in any suitable way to the top of the plate 7c is a spring is, which extends part1 across the opening m and under a shou der on the back side of the hooked end e of the lever f to limit the movement of said hooked end away from the stud a, to the end that if the fore-end be applied to the barrel and pressed against it the hooked end e will snap onto the stud, and the long arm 29 of the lever may then be swung up to position to secure the fore-end tightly in place.

The butt-end of the fore-end is provided, as usual, with a shoe v, socketed to fit the rounded end of the frame w, to which on the pin a; the barrel is pivoted in the manner commonly emplo ed in breakdown guns.

By means of t e herein-described invention the fore-end is alwa s yieldin ly pressed against the end of the rame, an therefore any Wear of the contacting surfaces of the shoe '0 and the end of the frame w will be taken up and the foreend therefore never work loose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The combination with the frame and barrel of a gun, of a detachable fore-end, a lever pivotally supported therein, a stud fixed to the barrel, and means on the lever to engage the stud between the latter and the frame to secure the fore-end to the barrel, said lever having a spring-arm, the flexure of which will exert a yielding pressure on the fore-end toward the barrel and endwise toward the frame, an endwise-movable button on the fore-end for holding the spring-arm in an elevated position.

EDWARD H. ELDER.

Witnesses:

K. I. CLEMoNs, H. A. CHAPIN.

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