A Telescopic Snort Scabbard for Daures.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 29.h May, 1897
A Telescopic Snort Scabbard for Daures.
BRUNO PANZIG, Engineer, 103, Horseferry Road, Westminster, in the County
of Middlesex, 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 ant
by the following statement :-
My invention concerns a short scabbard for cutting or thrusting arms which
consists of two or more parts sliding upward one into another when the sabre is
drawn. In order to attain this object many efforts have been already made, without
doubt in the knowledge of the inconvenience that the long sheath prevents the man.
from running and therefore restrains his ability of defending himself; but a
construction answering to the practical exigencies has not yet been brought to
notice. German Patent (DRP No. 80512) treats of a sliding scabbard in the
lower part of which there are springs to fasten the blade so that when it is drawn.
the single parts slide upward one into another. A particular mechanism at the
upper end of the sheath holds fast its lower parts in their higher position, while:
they are set free by a pressure on the knob of the stop mechanism and return
into their normal position so that the sabre can be sheathed again.
The short scabbard referred to solves the problem in such a manner that the
lower parts of the scabbard are surely taken along by the blade that they in their
higher position are caught spontaneously and just as surely in the upper sheath and
loosened and taken along by the sheathed blade. The management of the sabre is,.
therefore, exactly the same as at the fast scabbard.
The drawing shows in the Figures 1-6 a scabbard of two parts, the upper of
which is called the upper sheath, and the lower the lower sheath.
Fig. 1. shows in the small view of the longitudinal section the muzzle of the
upper sheath O with the muzzle of the lower sheath U drawn up and the middle
fragment of the sabre blade C with the shoulder X. Upon O opposite to each
other there are the steps d d'.
O is cylindric, U diminishes conically downward having for this purpose the
slide rings f'. According to the position of the steps d d', U has got the
cramps fitting through the apertures 9 9¹ so that the lower sheath drawn up.
holds fast spontaneously. When the blade C is sheathed into this so shortened
scabbard, the cramps slide out of the steps d d¹, unite themselves in the normal
cross section of O, so that the hooks 1-2 place themselves above the shoulder X
into the groove without any pressure on the blade C, and follow with U the
movement of the sabre when it is sheathing, which is shewn in Fig. 2.
Fig. 2. points out in the same way the end of the upper-sheath O with the
leading ferrule e the muzzle of the lower sheath U and the blade fragment C with.
the shoulder X after the sabre has been sheathed. The hooks 1-2 of the cramps h¹
are united above X and force U to follow absolutely the movement of the sabre C
when it is drawn until the cramps in d d¹ of the muzzle of O are loosened.
Fig. 3. shows the view of the cross section A B with the cramps
towards a 21
loosened.

page_text: Fig. 4 gives the view of the cross section C D with the cramps and hooks 1-2
united above X.
In order to explain the means of fastening given in the Figures 1-2, Fig. 5
shows the particular form of the cramps h h with the pin, or peg 3 springing into U
by a branch mm', and the cramps back, which is furnished with the knob K in
the opening (1) i of the lower sheath.
Fig. 6 shows the position of the cramps and their parts in the muzzle of U
to the shoulder X of the blade C as well as to the aperture g g' of the lower sheath.
On sheathing the sabre into the short scabbard the point of the former places
itself upon a piece of suitable metal fastened at the end of the lower sheath. If
the distance of the shoulder X from the sabre point permit the easy catching of
the hooks 1-2 the same must, when the blade is drawn out in every case take
along the lower sheath with security, even if the point of the sabre is broken off,
or has become shorter by sharpening.
On the other side spontaneous loosening of the cramps hh¹ and dd will take
place in all cases as surely as the catching of the books 1-2 above X when h h¹ is
sliding out of d d' during the sheathing of the sabre.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. By means of a telescopic short scabbard for sabres characterized by the
disposition of steps (d d) in the upper sheath (0) and of cramps (h h') springing
outward with hooks (1-2) at the inner side, in the lower sheath (U) in conjunction
with a shoulder (X) on the sabre blade (C) which shoulder when the blade is
drawn out striking at the inner hooks of the cramps takes along the lower sheath
as long as the cramps spontaneously loosen themselves in the steps (d d¹) of the
upper sheath, at the same time setting free the blades (C) whereat there is a
spontaneous setting free and thrusting out of the lower sheath, when the sabre
blade is put in again, substantially as described.
2. The specific scabbard for sabres herein before described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
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