HOLSTER FOR CARRYING OR WEARING SMALLARMS

Abstract

The present invention discloses a holster for a semiautomatic handgun. The semiautomatic handgun comprises a slider, a spring, a barrel terminating in a mouth, a hollow butt for a magazine clip and a firing mechanism comprising a trigger coupled to a hammer by a mechanism. The holster comprises left and right walls connected by a back piece. The holster is opened at its proximal end for insertion and removal of the semiautomatic handgun thereby and has an opening at its distal end. The holster further comprises means for engaging the slider of the semiautomatic handgun as the handgun is pushed into the holster, to slide the slider with respect to the barrel, thereby chambering a round.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

For a better understanding of the invention and to show how it may be carried into effect, reference will now be made, purely by way of example, to the accompanying drawings.

With specific reference now to the drawings in detail, it is stressed that the particulars shown are by way of example and for purposes of illustrative discussion of the preferred embodiments of the present invention only, and are presented in the cause of providing what is believed to be the most useful and readily understood description of the principles and conceptual aspects of the invention. In this regard, no attempt is made to show structural details of the invention in more detail than is necessary for a fundamental understanding of the invention; the description taken with the drawings making apparent to those skilled in the art how the several forms of the invention may be embodied in practice. In the accompanying drawings:

FIG. 1 is a side view of a semiautomatic handgun;

FIG. 2 is a side view of the semiautomatic handgun of FIG. 1, with the slider drawn backwards;

FIG. 3 is an isometric projection of a holster for a semiautomatic handgun that allows the handgun to be withdrawn by pushing the semiautomatic handgun downwards into the holster thereby sliding the slider thereof up the barrel before withdrawal from the holster;

FIG. 4 shows the holster of FIG. 3 attached to the belt of a wearer, with the hand of the wearer grasping the butt of the semiautomatic handgun therein;

FIG. 5 shows how the semiautomatic handgun may be loaded, by chambering a bullet whilst in the holster by being pressed downwards thereinto by provision of slider stops that stop the slider from moving downwards as the semiautomatic handgun is pushed downwards in the holster;

FIG. 6 is an isometric projection of the holster of FIG. 3 without the semiautomatic handgun, and

FIG. 7 shows a holster in accordance with a second embodiment of the invention.

Claims

1. A holster for a semiautomatic handgun: the semiautomatic handgun comprising a slider, a spring, a barrel terminating in a mouth, a hollow butt for a magazine clip and a firing mechanism comprising a trigger coupled to a hammer by a mechanism;the holster comprising left and right walls connected by a back piece; the holster being open at its proximal end for insertion and removal of the semiautomatic handgun thereby and having an opening at its distal end;the holster further comprising means for engaging the slider of the semiautomatic handgun as the handgun is pushed into the holster, to slide the slider with respect to the barrel, thereby chambering a round.

2. The holster of claim 1, wherein the means for engaging the slider comprises a pair of slider stops attached to the distal end of holster around the distal opening for engaging the slider of the semiautomatic handgun, such that pressing the semiautomatic handgun into the holster causes the barrel of the semiautomatic handgun to move distally out through distal end of holster, and the slider of the semiautomatic handgun to contact the slider stops on the holster, thereby sliding slider up the barrel and loading the semiautomatic handgun, by chambering a cartridge.

3. The holster of claim 2 wherein the slider stops are adjustable to allow configuring the holster to a specific semiautomatic handgun.

4. The holster of claim 1 further comprising attachment means for attaching the holster to an object to provide a counter-force to the pressing.

5. The holster of claim 4 where attachment means is a clip for clipping the holster onto the object.

6. The holster of claim 4 where the object is a garment.

7. The holster of claim 4 where the object is body of user of semiautomatic handgun.

8. The holster of claim 4, where the attachment means is selected from the list of clips, loops and straps.

9. The holster of claim 1 further comprising a guard to prevent inadvertent withdrawing of the semiautomatic handgun from the holster.

10. A method of chambering a cartridge into a semiautomatic handgun in the holster of claim 1, comprising the step of pushing the semiautomatic handgun downwards into the holster, stopping the slider against the slider stops, thereby sliding the slider backwards with respect to the barrel.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising the additional step of drawing the loaded semiautomatic handgun with chambered cartridge from the holster.

12. A method of loading and drawing a semiautomatic handgun with one hand comprising the steps of: (i) pushing the semiautomatic handgun downwards into the holster of claim 1, stopping the slider against the slider stops, thereby sliding the slider backwards with respect to the barrel to chamber a cartridge, and(ii) removing the loaded semiautomatic handgun from the holster.

13. A pair of slider stops for retrofitting around the lower aperture of a holster, to engage a slider of a semiautomatic handgun within the holster, so that the semiautomatic handgun can be loaded by pushing the semiautomatic handgun into the holster so that barrel of the semiautomatic handgun protrudes from lower aperture, but the slider is held back by the slider stops, thereby loading a cartridge into the semiautomatic handgun.

14. The pair of slider stops of claim 13 being adjustable to engage the slider but to allow passage of the barrel of a specific semiautomatic handgun.