HOLSTER FOR A PISTOL Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: defense industry; security weapons.

SUBSTANCE: the invention is dealt with the field of security weapons and may be used for concealed wearing a pistol using a standard belt suspender on a hip or a shoulder. The pistol holster contains a body for the barrel part of the pistol, a locking-up mechanism rest, mounted in the body and a carrying plate for fastening the pistol body on the belt of the user. For reduction of time to bring a pistol to combat readiness and to increase its friendliness the pistol holster in addition contains a barrel rest contacting with the barrel at turning the pistol in the holster body. The body is made U-shaped with a front, a lateral and an rear walls elastically linked among themselves and an open cheek. On free ends of the front and rear walls of the body there are rolling-contact bearings. A pistol is loaded during its ascent from a pistol holster using a single motion of the user's arm. The locking-up mechanism is cocked in a pistol holster by pressing on the handle of the pistol with following turning the pistol around the locking-up mechanism rest. At that the barrel rest pushes the cocked locking-up mechanism from its rest and it comes back in its initial state. In the process of its motion the locking-up mechanism pulls the front and the rear walls apart. At the end of the pistol escaping out of the body of the holster the rolling-contact bearings elastically acting on the locking-up mechanism, push it from the body. The invention increases the ease of the pistol holster handling and reduces time necessary for the pistol bringing in the combat position.

EFFECT: the invention increases the ease of the pistol holster handling and reduces time necessary for the pistol bringing in the combat position.

2 cl, 29 dwg