A Safety firing Mechanism for Small Arms, such as Rifles, Fowling pieces &c.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 15th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1888
JAMES TRUSCOTT, Watchmaker & Jeweller 13 High Street Tenby, Pembrokeshire,
South Wales, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A Safety firing Mechanism for Small Arms, such as Rifles, Fowling pieces &c.
The object of the invention is to render Guns safe against accidents, being
thoroughly automatic in its actions, requiring no attention whatever on the part of
the user to make it safe, nor the necessity of pressing Slides, Levers, or Knobs &c.
previous to discharging the weapon, other than the usual method of pulling the
trigger or triggers.
This object is obtained by a simple and complete arrangement under the Heel
Plate, which by the mere action of taking aim, draws a Safety bolt from over
the trigger or triggers, which relocks the instant the Gun is removed from the
shoulder.
The Gun is rendered safe by means of a Safety Bolt or Tongue, which passes over
the trigger or triggers, to this Safety Bolt or Tongue is secured a small steel rod
which passes through the Stock, and is connected to Levers under the Heel Plate.
Next, the whole surface of the Heel Plate is rendered sensitive to the touch, so
that however lightly the Gun is brought to the shoulder, the Safety bolt is drawn, and
the weapon can be discharged, by pulling the trigger or triggers.
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page_text: JAMES TRUSCOTT, Watchmaker & Jeweller 13 High Street Tenby, Pembrokeshire
South Wales 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 stateinent :-
scear,
B spur of scear, C steel plate with guiding screw D tongue or bolt,
E steel rod, Funion joint, G levers, H spring, 1 inner heel plate with rim, fittings
for levers, push pieces and spring, K push pieces or plungers, L leather collet or
washer, M nut, N rubber pad, O metal plate fitted to push pieces.
The object of my invention is attained by means of a bolt or tongue D, which plays
loosely on a guiding screw in a steel plate C secured by a screw to the stock of Gun
immediately over the scears B and triggers, to this bolt or tongue D is attached a
steel rod E which passes through the whole length of the stock, and connected to a
pair of levers G, by means of a union joint F by a screw, pin, or rivet, these two
Ievers G are fitted and jointed into a fitting under the heel plate I, and also to two push
pieces or plungers K, the ends of the push pieces or plungers K which project through
the inner heel plate L, have a thread tapped on them to which an outer heel plate is
secured by nuts M. A metal plate O is fitted on the two push pieces or plungers K,
the object of this plate is to keep the push pieces or plungers K parallel, and also 'as
a base for the horn, vulcanite, or outer heel plate. This outer heel plate is made to
fit loosely into or rather inside the rim of the inside heel plate I. Between the two
heel plates is a sheet of Rubber N, this acts as a buffer to prevent noise when the
outer heel plate is pressed sharply in. The outer heel plate, and the bolt or tongue D
are kept in their position by means of a spring H, under the levers G, beneath the
inner heel plate 1.
By this arrangement of double levers the whole surface of the heel plate is rendered
sensitive to pressure. To enable the hammers of the Gun to be put at full cock
without drawing the safety bolt D, the spur of the scear or scears B are jointed or
hinged to the scear or scears A.
Any Rifle or Fowling piece fitted with this invention, is prevented from accidental
discharge, by the bolt D locking the scears A and B & triggers, but when the Gun
is placed to the shoulder, as in the act of taking aim, the heel plate forces in the push
pieces Kand depress the levers G, thereby drawing back the. rod E and bolt D, thus
releasing the scears A & B and triggers, when the weapon may be discharged by
pulling the trigger or triggers, which again relocks the instant it is removed from
the shoulder

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1stly. That my Invention is an automatical preventative against the accidental
discharge of fire arms such as Rifles Fowling pieces &c. requiring no attention on
the part of the user of the weapon to render it safe, nor the necessity of pressing
levers, Buttons or Knobs &c. before discharging the Gun other than the usual method
of bringing the weapon to the shoulder as in the act of taking aim, when it may be
discharged in the usual way by pulling the trigger or triggers.
2ndly. The mechanism is so simple and positive in its action, that it is almost
impossible to get out of order, or fail in its purpose.
Brdly. It can be applied to almost any Rifle or Fowling piece.