An Improved Rifle Rest.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1894 -Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
COMPLETE DIECITICATION.
An Improved Rifle Rest.
I FREDERIC JUSTIN NELSON, Lieutenant, 4th Lancers, Hyderabad Contingent,
at present Private Secretary to His Honor the Lieut.-Governor of the North West
Provinces of Oudh, British India, do hereby declare the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My invention relates to a design for a support for the forward part of the rifle to
rest on in long range firing in order to give greater steadiness in aiming and firing.
The rest is designed so that it can be attached to or detached from the rifle at any
time, when so desired.
In the drawings hereto annexed and which are to be read as part of this
Specification the same letters indicate the same parts in each figure.
Figure 1 shows the rest folded up, attached to forward part of rifle stock.
Figure 2 shows the rest attached to rifle, open and in use.
Figure 3. Side view of the moveable claw G.
Figure 4. End view of same.
Figure 5. Side view of footing piece D to supporting rod A.
Figure 6. End view of same.
Figure 7. Side view, joint of vertical support A and diagonal strut E at
point F.
The rifle rest may be made of any suitable metal but preferably of aluminium,
as combining lightness and strength. In Figure 1, rod A at its upper end is fitted
with an eye or hook through which the swivel pin B of the upper band C passes
and secures it to fore end of rifle stock. At its foot is attached a crescent shaped
footing piece D which steadies the rest and prevents the rod sinking in soft ground
and its crescent shape allows of its grasping the underside of rifle stock when folded
up and stowed away as shown in Figure 1. The diagonal strut E is hinged to the
vertical support of the rest at F and is attached to claw G by a hinged joint, also
claw G travels to and fro on the upper part of the rifle stock between the upper and
lower bands C and C and any desired degree of depression and elevation can
be obtained by moving claw G either backward or forward on the stock. Springs H
are housed in a recess in claw G, the upper parts only projecting at ends so as to
have a slight grasp on rifle stock. These springs are however not essential.
When
the rest is folded up prong J projecting from footing piece D fits into slot K at
bottom of claw G and is secured therein by a small spring catch. The length of
the vertical supporting rod of the rest is limited to the distance between the upper
and lower stock bands which is about 14 to 15 inches and this length preferably I
adopt. The diameter of the strut E may be about one-half of rod A. In the sheet
of drawings hereto annexed the rest is shown attached to a Martini-Henry rifle
but it can with equal facility be attached to a Lee-Metford rifle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I do declare that what 1
claim is :-
In a detachable rifle rest the combination of a supporting rod A, one end of which
is attached to rifle by means of the swivel pin B, of upper band C, the crescent
shaped footing piece D, diagonal s trut E, hinged to rod A at F, and the other end

page_text: hinged to claw G, said claw with its springs H travelling to and fro on rifle stock,
substantially as described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 31st day of August 1894.
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.