US544269A - Recoil-pad for guns - Google Patents

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J. R, WINTERS. EEGOIL PAD FOR GUNS.

.(No Model.)

Patented Aug. 6, 1.895.

Witnesses:

Agtorney.

UNITE STATES -ATENT RECOlL-PAD FOR GUNS.

SPECIFICATION fomning part of Letters Patent No. 544,269, dated August 6, 1 895.- Application filed September 24, 1894. Serial No. 523,955. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JACOB R. WINTERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clinton, in the county of Henry and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Recoil-Pads for Guns, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improved pneumatic recoil-pad for gun-stocks; arid it has for its object the production of a pad'fo-r use on muskets, shotguns, and the like, which will protect the user from the recoil of the gun when fired,which can be readilyand conveniently applied to and removed from the gunstock, and which can be folded' into a small package when not in use.

Pneumatic recoil-pads or shoulder-guards have heretofore been constructed with a number of small rubber tubes placed close together and forming air-cells open at the ends. Pads of this form are objectionable in that they have no provision for inflation beyond atmospheric pressure, and therefore lack the essential element of a perfect air-cushion. Another form of pneumatic pad has also been used, which consists of a strip of rubber attached at its ends to the gun-stock, and having'guiding-studs projecting from its inner face and entering recesses in the butt of the stock. Apad of this form is open to the same objection as the one mentioned above, because the air-chamber is open to the outside atmosphere; but aside from this objection there is still another in that the butt of the stock must .be specially prepared to receive it, causing its disfigurement when the pad is not in place.

In my recoil-pad there is but a single airchamber, and it is normally closed to the outside atmosphere, but is provided with means whereby it may be inflated to any desired degree by use of a small air-pum p.

The invention will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings, and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure l.is an elevation of a gun, showing the stock provided with my improved recoilpad. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical central section of a portion of the same, showing the valve closed. Fig. 3 is a vertical central section of my pad detached, showing the valve open. Fig. 4 is an enlarged broken sectional view of so much of the pad as is necessary to show the valve and its manner of operation.

Referring to the drawings, A is the gun, the stock a of which is provided with my improved recoil-pad.

B is the recoil-pad, made of elastic material, preferably of soft rubber. In therear end of the pad there is formed an air-chamber C, the

front wall 0 of which is shaped to conform to the pad, and is exteriorly screw-threaded for the receptign oft-a small air-pump(not shown) to force air iuto the chamber to inflate the pad and thereby form an eifectiveair-cushion, and also for the purpose of receiving a cap 5 when the pump is detached. Spanning the air-inlet on the inner side is a narrow strip 6, of rubber or other elastic material, cemented or otherwise secured at its ends to the lower wall of the chamber, and on this strip, in register with the air-inlet, is formed or secured a valve 7, adapted to automatically close the said inlet against the escape of air under pressure.

The forward end of .the pad is in the form of a sleeve I), adapted to fit over and closely embrace the butt of the gun-stock, whereby the pad is held in place by its own elasticity.

When it is desired to use the recoil-pad, the cap 5 is removed and the pipe of a small airpump screwed on the projecting end of the tube 2. Air being forced into the tube the valve is forced from its seat, the elastic strip 6 permitting the necessary movement, and the air enters the air-chamber C. When the action of the pump is stopped, the pressure behind the strip 6, aided by the latters elastic ity, returns the valve to its seat, thus preventing the escape of the air. hen desired, the air may be allowed to escape by forcing the too valve inward from its seat by any suitable instrument and the pad can then be folded into a. eempamatively smallpaekage.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An elastic recoil-pad having an air-chamber, an air-inlet opening leading into said chamber, an elastic strip spanning said openthe valve is adapted to close said opening in;-

dependent of the pressure within' the chamber.

' JACOB R. WINTERS.

Witnesses:

J. A. DE LA VERGNEH, D'. .TAeK BARNETT.

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