An Improved Means for Carrying Rifles and Sporting Guns.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th June, 1893-Accepted, 9th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Means for Carrying Rifles and Sporting Guns.
I WILLIAM DAVID TRICK of Ashford House Saint Helens Road in the County
Borough of Swansea Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:
An improved method of carrying a rifle or other kind of gun by means of a
shoulder belt. The belt may be made of leather or webbing or part leather and
part webbing, that part of the belt under the arm for about ten inches in length is
of rounded leather or other material with a loop attachment to a metal ring to
which ring is also attached the other end of the belt in like manner.
A short strap
of leather or other material about six inches long and three quarters of an inch
wide is attached at one end to the same ring also in like manner and at the other
end attached to the rounded leather by means of a running loop: The rifle or gun
is placed butt uppermost between the rounded leather part of the belt and the
short strap until it passes beyond the trigger guard when the belt is drawn tight
and the short strap grips the gun under the trigger guard and holds the gun
suspended perpendicular with the body behind the shoulder with the butt uppermost
and the trigger guard to the rear.
The belt may be fitted with receptacles or pockets for holding cartridges and it
can be lengthened or shortened by means of a buckle.
T
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
An Improved Means for Carrying Rifles and Sporting Guns.
I WILLIAM DAVID TRICK of Ashford House, Saint Helens Road in the County
Borough of Swansea Gentleman 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:-
My invention consists of a shoulder strap made partly of leather and partly of
webbing. That part of the belt a-al (for about seven inches in length) which
passes under the arm, is of rounded leather about five eighths of an inch in diameter
(or other width according to the kind of gun carried) having a loop attachment to
a metal ring b, b, b, to which ring is also attached the other end of the belt in like
manner, and a short strap of leather or other material c-cl about six inches long
and three quarters of an inch wide attached at one end to the said ring also in like
manner, the other end of the said strap having a metal hook for the purpose of
attaching the loose end of the said strap to the rounded part of the belt and so
forming a running nooze by which the rifle or gun is held and suspended. The
mode of using this appliance is to pass the belt over the left shoulder and under the
right arm allowing the short strap c-c¹ to hang loose as in Figure I then carry
the strap round the rifle or gun in front of the trigger guard and place the hook
over the rounded part of the belt as in Figure Il when the weight of the weapon
causes the hook to run down and tighten the strap round the weapon which is
suspended perpendicular with the body, behind the shoulder with butt uppermost
and the trigger guard to the rear.
The belt may be lengthened or shortened by means of a buckle d. The belt
may be fitted with receptacles or pockets for holding cartridges. The short strap
may at one end be looped so as to run over the rounded part of the leather belt

page_text: thereby forming a running nooze, or the loose end of the strap may have a ring
attached to pass over a travelling hook on the rounded part of the belt and
vice versa or the short strap c-c may be attached to a waist belt, one end of the
strap being looped over the belt and the other end having a hook to hook on the
belt and so forming a loop to hold the weapon in the manner before described. I
however consider the shoulder belt with the hooked strap as first described to
be most effective.
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. That the principle of wearing the carrying strap on the body is new-all other
carrying straps being attached to the rifle or like.
2. That the short strap for looping round the rifle &c. is new in its application to
this purpose.
3. That the method of making the running loop by means of the hook over the
strap is new.
W. D. TRICK.