A Hunting Knife or Bayonet Arranged in the Stock of a Gun or Small Fire-arm.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1894—Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Hunting Knife or Bayonet Arranged in the Stock of a Gun or
Small Fire-arm.
I, THEODOR PRASSE of Leitsweiler, Post Schnelldorf, Bavaria, in the Empire
of Germany, Forester for the Town of Rothenburg, 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 :—
A hunter or sportsman feels the want of carrying his hunting knife in such a
nanner that it shall always be ready to his hand.
Now the present invention is designed to fill this want by arranging the knife
or in special cases a bayonet to be carried in the stock of the gun or small
fire-arm.
This arrangement is shown in the accompanying drawings in which however the
form and construction of the hunting knife, shown serve merely as illustrative
examples Fig. 1 being a side view and Fig. 2 a back-end view of the stock of
gun having a bunting knife arranged and mounted therein according to my present
invention.
The hunting knife (or bayonet) is inserted in the stock in such a manner that
the blade a shall be situated with its upper side or edge approximately parallel
to the lower edge of the gunstock in order to facilitate its withdrawal.
The
The blade a and the handle c are connected together as usual in jointed or folding
bunting knives by means of a spring catch or in any other suitable manner.
blade and the handles or hilt may be separated by a cross guard piece d.
The knife or bayonet is inserted in the gunstock (as shown in full lines in Fig. 1)
and the handle part c is then turned up in such a manner that the back d' of the
handle part e comes in line with the butt e of the gunstock fas shown in dotted
lines in Fig. 1.
A flap is arranged to be pressed by a spring into a recess or cavity in the
butt e of the gunstock and thus prevents the knife or bayonet from falling out.
The flap g is provided on its inner face with a projection / which engages in the
recess of the joint or hinge of the knife.
When the flap g is turned outwards its projection h carries the knife along with it
to a partial extent so that the handle c can be grasped and opened out and then the
knife can be completely drawn out.
Instead of this arrangement a spiral spring may be employed which is not so
powerful as the spring that keeps the flap closed but which when the flap g is
opened will press the handle of the knife (situated in the gunstock) outwards
to such an extent as to allow of same being grasped and thereby the knife
drawn out.
When a bayonet or non-folding knife is used its handle may of course be rigidly
connected to the blade in which case it will pass into the gunstock without folding
as illustrated in the drawings annexed.
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 :-
1. The arrangement and combination of a hunting knife or bayonet with the
stock of a gun which is formed with a recess or chamber adapted to receive same
therein and means on the butt end of said stock to retain said knife or bayonet in
position therein or release same when required.

page_text: 2. The arrangement and combination with a gun-stock of a knife with folding
blade a recess formed in said gunstock and adapted to receive therein said knife
blade and handle in a partly folded position a flap hinged to the butt end of
said gunstock and adapted to retain said knife in position in said gunstock and
a projection or arm on said flap adapted to force the knife handle outwards when
said flap is opened substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before
set forth.
3. The arrangement and combination of a knife or bayonet in the stock of a
gun substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before described and
illustrated by way of example in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 5th day of September 1894.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.