Improvements in or Connected with Flexible or Yielding Heel Pads for the Stocks of Rifles and other like Fire Arms.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Dec., 1886
Complete Left, 29th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 1st Nov., 1887
Improvements in or Connected with Flexible or Yielding Heel
Pads for the Stocks of Rifles and other like Fire Arms.
We HUGH ADAMS SILVER, of Abbey Lodge, Chislehurst, Kent, Colonel, and
WALTER FLETCHER, of 67, Cornhill, City of London, Gunsmith, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a special construction or formation of flexible or yielding
pads as a substitute for or in addition to ordinary heel plates of Rifles and other like
Fire Arms to act as a cushion and take up or absorb the recoil or the greater part of it
when the Gun is fired.
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The appliance is preferably made from a compound of hard and soft rubber with a
hollow at the back said hollow being of such a depth as to leave the softest part of the
compound rubber, which is outside; very pliable and yielding; said hollow may be
filled with a loose fitting piece, of similarly or other compounded rubber, having
free movement therein so that when in place in the hollow it causes the soft outer skin
of the recoil pad to slightly project beyond the surface of the other part, said pro-
jecting part being brought against the shoulder of the firer and becomes first compressed
before the full pressure of the recoil spreads itself over the entire surface of the pad
thus absorbing the recoil gradually, yet effectually.
The filling in piece may be of other material than that corresponding to the recoil
pad so as to be slightly harder than the front skin of the recoil pad where the additional
Hexibility is situated such as would be produced from the application of solid rubber
in the hollow or of greater softness such as that produced from the application of
spongy rubber.
The main feature of the invention is making the back portion of the recoil pad
hollow and filling in said hollow with a solid or a pliable material which may cause a
portion of the soft yielding face of the recoil pad to slightly protude to take the first
impact of the recoil.
Dated this 20th Jan of Dacombor 1986

page_text: improvements in or Connected with Flexible or Yielding Hееl
Pads for the Stocks of Rifles and other like Fire Arms.
We, HUGH ADAMS SILVER, of Abbey Lodge, Chislehurst, Kent, Colonel, and
WALTER FLETCHER of 67 Cornhill, City of London, Gunsmith, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a special construction or formation of flexible or yielding
pads as a substitute for or in addition to ordinary heel plates of rifles and other like
fire arms to act as a cushion and take up or absorb the recoil or the greater part of it
when the gun is fired.
The appliance is preferably made from a compound of hard and soft rubber A, B,
Figure 1 (see annexed drawings) with a hollow C at the back as seen more par-
ticularly in Figure 2 said hollow C being of such a depth as to leave the softest
part D of the compound rubber B which is outside very pliable and yielding, said
hollow may be filled with a loose fitting piece E Figure 3 of similarly or other
compounded rubber having a free movement therein so that when in place in the
hollow, it causes the soft outer skin D of the recoil pad A, B, to slightly project
beyond the surface of the other part, said projecting part D being brought against the
shoulder of the firer and becomes first compressed before the full pressure of the recoil
spreads itself over the entire surface of the pad thus absorbing the recoil gradually
yet effectually.
The filling in piece E may be of other material than that corresponding to the
recoil pad such as steel in coiled form in one piece as at Figure 4 or in several pieces,
pocketed, as at Figure 5, so as to be slightly harder than the front portion D of the
recoil pad A, B, where the additional flexibility is situated, such as would be produced
from the application of solid rubber in the hollow or of greater softness such as that
produced from the application of spongy rubber. The pressure resisting medium
may be in plug form as at E Figure 6.
The main feature of the invention, is making the back portion of the recoil pad
hollow and providing said hollow with a solid or a pliable material which may cause
a portion of the soft yielding face of the recoil pad to slightly protrude to take the
first impact of recoil.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :—
The manufacture of flexible or yielding middle portions of heel pads from com-
pounded rubber or an equivalent as a first impact cushion for absorbing the recoil of
small arms as described and substantially of the forms shown on the annexed
drawings.
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