Improvements in Detachable Stocks for Fire-arms.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Detachable Stocks for Fire-arms.
I, HUGH WILLIAM GABBETT-FAIRFAX, of 107, Lambeth Palace Road, London,
S.E., Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows;
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This invention has for its object to provide simple means for enabling a
stock to be readily attached to or detached from a pistol so that the latter can be
fired either from the hand like a pistol or from the shoulder like a carbine.
For this purpose the detachable stock is formed of similar shape to an ordinary
rifle-stock and has a hook-like projection at the part where it is attached to thic
pistol, said hook-like projection being such that so long as the stock remains
approximately in alignment with the axis of the pistol it cannot be disconnected.
Suitable means are provided for retaining the stock in this position. For instance
it may be furnished with a thumb screw or other device located on an extension
or bracket on the stock and adapted to engage with a threaded hole in the handle
of the pistol. Or a yoke piece or stump may be employed to engage with an
appropriate projection on the stock.
To detach the stock it is only necessary to loosen the said screw or release the
said stump and turn the stock about its hook like projection, as about a pivot,
until the said projection comes out of engagement with the recess into which it
is adapted to fit.
Datal 4.
10+1 Ja of svil 1900
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
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I, HUGH WILLIAM GABBETT-FAIRFAX, of 107, Lambeth Palace Road, in the
County of London, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
This invention has for its object to provide simple means for enabling a
stock to be readily attached to or detached from a pistol so that the latter can be
fired either from the hand like a pistol or from the shoulder like a carbine.
For this purpose I use a detachable stock of similar shape to that of an
ordinary rifle-stock. It has a projection at the part where it is attached to the
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page_text: pistol, said projection being of such a shape that ar angular movement of the
stock and pistol relatively to each other is necessary for connecting them and
when the stock has been thereby connected. to the pistol, it cannot be discon-
nected again without imparting to it the aforesaid angular movement about the
projection in order to bring the latter into a position of disengagement with a
cavity or recess in the butt or handle of the pistol. In order to secure the stock
to the pistol after connection therewith as aforesaid I provide a retaining device
of any suitable construction, which can be readily released in order to permit
the angular movement of the stock relatively to the pistol in the manner stated
above.
In order that my said invention may be clearly understood and readily carried
into effect I will proceed to describe the same. more fully with reference to the
accompanying drawings, in which:
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Figure 1 is a side elevation shewing a portion of a pistol and of a stock detach-
ably connected together in accordance with my invention.
Figure 2 is a similar view shewing a modified device for retaining the stock
in its attached position.
Figure 3 is a plan of the said device.
Like letters of reference indicate similar parts in all the figures.
A is the casing or body of the pistol, which in the example illustrated is of
the automatic class; B is the butt or handle thereof, C the trigger and D the
detachable stock.
d is the projection on the stock, such projection being shewn in the shape of
a hook and forming part of a plate attached to the stock at the part that lies
adjacent to the butt or handle of the pistol when the said stock is applied
thereto. Passing transversely through the butt or handle B is a pin b with which
the said hook-like projection d engages, a space being formed around or con-
tiguous to the said pin for the hook-like projection to enter when its engagement
with the pin is effected.
The retaining device is in Figure 1 shewn as a thumb-screw d² carried by the
extension d³ of the aforesaid plate d¹ and is adapted to engage with screw-
threads in a hole formed for its reception in the butt or handle of the pistol.
Instead, however of using the said thumb-screw for securing the stock to
the pistol I may employ a yoke-piece or stirrup d' as shewn in Figures 2 and 3.
This yoke-piece is pivotally mounted on the stock by a screw d passing through
a lug on the yoke-piece and the stock is preferably provided with a spring
catch d or other appropriate contrivance to retain the yoke-piece in the hori-
zontal position represented in Figure 2 which is the position it occupies for se-
curing the stock to the pistol. When the yoke-piece is raised into this position
(Figure 2) the said spring catch engages with the yoke-piece and retains it in
such position without further adjustment.
To detach the stock from the pistol it is only necessary, in the arrangement
illustrated by Figure 1, to loosen the said screw ³, or, in the arrangement
illustrated by Figures 2 and 3, to release the said stirrup , and afterwards to
turn the stock upwardly about its hook-like projection, as about a pivot, until
the said projection comes out of engagement with the recess into which it enters.
It will be obvious that the aforesaid transverse pin may in some cases be
omitted and the space or recess into which the hook-like projection enters, be
made of a shape corresponding more or less with that of the said hook-like pro-
jection with a shoulder for the hook to engage with. Also that the projection
may if desired be formed on the pistol and the recess in the stock.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A detachable stock provided with means whereby its attachment to and

page_text: detachment from a pistol is effected by an angular movement of one relatively
to the other substantially as described.
2. A detachable stock combined with a pistol substantially as described with
reference to the accompanying drawings for the purpose specified.
Dated this 16th day of February 1899.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.