US372000A - Thied to john o - Google Patents

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i JAMES I. IVINTZ, OF CHARLESTON, VES'I VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- TIIIRD TO JOI-IN O. FLYNN, OE SAME PLAGE.

PISTOL OR lVlACE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,000, dated October 25, 1887.

Application filed March Q4, 1887.

T all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES P. WINTZ, of` Charleston, in the county of Kanawha and State of fest Virginia, have invented a new and useful In'lprovement in Pistol or Mace Holders, of which the following-is a speciiication. A

' My invention is an improved holder intended especially forA use in securing pistols Io or maees or billies, and seeks to provide a holder ont of which the object secured can be removed laterally aswell as in the ordinary manuel'.

The invention consists in certain features of i5 construction and novel combinations of parts, as will be described, and pointed out in the claims. p

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a side 2o elevation, part in section, and Eig. 3 is a horizontal section, all of which will be described. The holder comprises a base or support, A, and a clip, B, secured at one end to the support and having its other end spring-actu- 2 5 ated and being approximately conformed to the object it is designed to hold, being curved at b,in the construction shown, to fit the round police club or billy shown. It is preferred to form the extreme free edge of this clip on an 3c incline, as shown at O, for the reason that such formation produces a wedge su1face,wl1ich facilitates the removal of the billy or other object secured, because of such object, when properly manipulated,impinging the wedge surface and forcing the clip open.

. The support or base A is provided immediately below the free edge of the clip with a bearing at c, for the object being` secured,and is provided with a vertical extension, D, of

4o such bearing, such extension being provided at its end with a keeper, d, which partially embraces the object being secured. By pref- Serial No. 232,282. (No model.)

erence the seat c and extension D which obviously might be formed integral with the base-plate, are formed of a separate plate, riveted or otherwise suitably secured to the main plate. For convenience in attaching the support to a belt, I usually provide it with loops at E, through which the belt is passed.

y By my invention the billy can be removed 5o inthe ordinary manner, or where in aseuffle this is notcouvenient or possible, it can be pushed back at its handle end and be freed from its support. Aside from the ease with which the object may be removed under ordinary circumstances, the invention will be found particularly useful to an officer or other person in a scu'flie wherein it would be difficult to readily remove the billy held by the ordinary loop-socket.

lThe main and clip plates at their bearing portions may loe covered, as shown, with leather or similar material to protect the object being worn from abrasion by contact with a metal surface.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new isl. A holder comprising a base-plate hav ing at one end an extension, D, projected from it at right angles tothe direction of its length, and the spring-clip secured at one end to the' base-plate at the end thereof opposite the extension D and having its opposite end free,all substantially as and for thepurposes specified.

2. The improved holder consisting ofthe main plate or support having an extension, D, provided with a keeper, d, and the clipplate secured at one end to the support and having its opposite end free, substantially' as set forth.

JAMES P. WINTZ. Witnesses:

W. A. UDIcK, J. E. CHILTON.

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