US1228506A - Pistol-stock. - Google Patents

Description

J. H. WESSON.

PISTOL STOCK.

APPLICATION FILED 0:029. 1916.

1 ,228,506. Patented June 5, 1917.

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JOSEPH H; WESSON, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOIR TO SMITH 8n WESSON, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, A VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION.

PISTOL-STOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

, Patented June 5,1917.

Application filed December 29, 1916. Serial NO.'139,544.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn I-I. WESSON, a citizen of the United States of America,residing in Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pistol-Stocks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relatesto stocks or grips for pistols or hand firearms. Ordinarily in such firearms the middle frame is extended rea'rwardly and downwardly, occupying a plane which constitutes the middle of the entire stock or grip, and the latter is built out square butt type of stock.

with cheek pieces, commonly called stocks, on opposite sides which embrace theframe between them and supply the requisite thickness and desirable curved contour. For lightness and also for mechanical reasons relating to the construction of the arm, the frame is cut out within the stock constituting an open frame, the front or rear portions, or tangs, of which have the contour of the grip and are exposed between the cheek pieces or stocks. In some pistols the stock or grip is short and rounded having what is known as a round butt; in others the grip is extended farther down, made wider, and is flat or square on the bottom, being known as a square butt. Manufacturers of revolvers or other hand firearms, commonl in order to meet the taste of customers, build each particular style or pattern of arm with both the round butt and square butt stock. As heretofore constructed, this has involved the making for each type of arm of two main frames, the one having its grip portion shaped for a round butt and the other for a This necessitates a. duplication which it is desirable to avoid, it being necessary to provide special gages and machinery for finishing the two respective styles of frame.

The object of the present invention is to enable such firearms to be constructed with a uniform pattern of frame, which is adaptable to either a round butt gri or a square butt grip, so that the only di erence which the manufacturer has to provide for is that pertaining to the grip alone; that is to say so that for a round butt grip it is only necessary to apply the cheeks or stocks of the appropriate shape, and for a square butt grip it is only necessary to apply to the same frame the appropriately shaped deeper stocks or contour is that of the grip shown in Fig. 2

cheeks having'the square butt. This avoids the duplication of jigs and machinery and even enables the arms to'be sold to dealers with an assortment of stocks, so that the dealer may readily meet the customers wishes by'substituting either form of stock by the other when desired.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the frame of a revolver showing its grip portion provided with square butt stocks;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the revolver provided with round butt stocks;

Fig. 3 shows the rear or grip portion of the frame;

Fig. 4 shows one of the stocks therefor, for the form shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. -5 shows the grip portion of the frame;

Fig. 6 shows one of the stocks for the form shown in Fig. 1, having the s uare grip;

Fig. 7 is a rear elevation o the construction'shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, one of the grips being in section;

Fig. 8 is a similar rear elevation showing the construction of Figs. 1, 5 and 6;

Fig. 9 shows in perspective a fillingv piece which, in Fig. 3, is applied to, and in Fig. 5, removed from the rear tang of the frame;

Fig. 10 is a fragmentary front elevation showing the lower part of the stock in' Fig. 1.

In all the figures A is the frame and B, B the stock or cheek pieces.

As shown in Fig.3 the frame A is formed with the usual opening a and its exterior being that for a round butt grip; that is td say, its corners b and c' are rounded and its rear face d follows the contour of the cheeks or stocks B. In every case the frame within the grip extends through the middle thereof, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, being commonly of less thickness, than the main portion of the frame'above the grip, and being built out to give the rounded contour to the grip by applying to its opposite faces the cheek pieces or stocks B B or B B. If a round grip.

.If, on the other hand, a square butt grip is desired, cheek pieces of theform shown at B B are used, each extending beneath the frame, and at the lower rear part of the grip extending also to the rear of the frame in the manner clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 6; Where these stocks extend beneath and be yond the frame they meet each other, formmg a joint on the medial line as, Fig. 8. Elsewhere they are recessed or cut away at e sufficiently to admit the frame between them. In order to enable the tapering rear wall f of the stocks to properly join the rear face of the frame, the latter is reduced'or cut away at the. lower rear portion of its rear tang, in the manner shown at-g, Fig. 5. In Fig. 3 this recessed portion is filled out by the insertion of a filling piece C, shown separately in Fig. 9. This filling piece when in place is fastened securelyto the rear tan of the-frame in any suitable manner,.pre erably by forming it with a lug h entering a recess 2' cut in the rear tang, a hole .being drilled through the latter and through, the lug,through which coinciding holes a pin 7' 1s driven, whereby the filling piece is held securely in place when the arm is used with a round butt grip.

The stocks are held together, and the frame "clamped or embraced'between them in the usual manner by means of one or more screws la and pins Z or in any other suitable way.-

Thus according to this invention it will be seen that the frame of the arm is precisely the same whether the arm is to be made up with a round butt grip or with. a square butt grip. For a round butt gripthe filling piece C is used and'the round butt cheeks B are applied. For a square butt grip the filling piece C is removed and the deeper cheeks B which inclose the bottom and part of the rear of the frame are used.

By means of the described construction each pattern of arm is made up at the factory irrespective of the shape of grip to be provided, and in finally assembling the arms a they are provided with round butt stocks or mg the demands of their trade by supplying.

. square butt stocks in such proportion as may If at any time the works are found to be overstocked with one style of be desired.

grip and understocked with the other, it is easy before filling orders to change the grip from one shape to the other.

The invention also enables'a manufacturer to provide dealers,- especially those at distant olnts, with means for more effectually suitsuch dealers with extrastocks or cheek pieces, so that the dealer may in a few moments substitute one for the other according to the customers preference.

In order to most effectually protect the somewhat thin edge on the top of the wall f when the stock is made of wood or other fra 'lematerial, the cut-away portion 9 is slig tly undercut at-m, Fig. 5, and the top of the wall 7 is fitted thereto, thereby forming a semi-dovetail joint. This also has the effect of -making a closer joint with the upper end of the filling piece C, whereby the latter is protected, this joint being, shown at m in Fig. 3.

Where the bottom front portion of the square butt stock conforms to .the rounded corner I) of the frame, the latter is preferably concaved slightly and the thin edge of wood or other material at b, Fig. 6 is caused to slightly enterthe concave so-that this fragile edge is protected against in'ury,

the appearance when viewed from the ront and adapted to receive the smallest stocks to be applied as cheek pieces to its op osite sides soas to expose the frame be ween them, and larger stocks adapted to fit the frame, and extended beyond it and meetin each other whereby to form a longer an larger grip.

2. A pistol, the gri of which comprises a middle frame and ateral stocks embracing the frame between them, the frame shaped and adaptedito receive the smallest stocks to be applied as check pieces to its opposite sides so as to expose the frame between them, and havin a portion of its rear tang-recessed, and a fi g piece for filling said recess, and larger stocks adaptedwhen said filling piece is removed to fit the frame, and havingv a portion fitting into said recess.

3. A pistol, the grip of which com rises a middle frame and lateral stocks em racin the frame between them, the frame shape and adapted to receive the smallest stocks to be applied as cheek pieces to its opposite sides so as to expose the frame between them, and havingla portion of its rear tan recessed, and a ling piecefor filling sai recess, having a lug entering a socket in said tang, and a fastening pin passing through said lug and tang to ho d place, and larger stocks adapted when said filling piece is removed to fit the frame, and having a portion fitting into said recess.

A pistol, the grip of which com rises a.

middle frame and lateral stocks em racm the frame between them, the frame shape and adapted to receive stocks to be applied the filling piece in a portion of its rear tang cutaway, the cut away portion terminating with anundercut, and stocks adapted to fit the frame and havmg rear walls entering into such cut away portion, the upper edges of said rear wallsbeneath and conforming to said entering undercut. v

' In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence-0f two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH H. WESSON.

Witnesses:

' EVERETT A. KINNEY,

o; MARSH.

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