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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOSEPH C. PETMECKY, OF AUSTIN, TEXAS.
FIRE-ARM HOLDER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,714, dated November 21, 1882.
Application filed May 2, 1882. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JOSEPH C. PETMEOCY,
a citizen of the United States, residing at Aus-
tin, in the county of Travis and Stateof Texas,
5 has invented certain new and useful Improve-
ments in Fire-Arm Holders; and Ido hereby
declare the following to be a full, clear, and ex-
act description of the invention, such as will
enable others skilled in the art to which it ap-
ro pertains to make and use the same, reference
being had to the accompanying drawings, and
to the letters or figures of reference marked
thereon, which form a partof this specification.
My invention is an improvement in that
l5 class of pistol-holders which may be fastened
around the waist of person, and which holds
the fire-arm by a screw secured firmly to the
same.
Itconsists ofa plateofmalleable iron or other
20 suitable metal, curved to conform to the waist
of a person, having secured to it on the inside
a spring adapted to push outward from the
waist toward an auxiliary slotted countersunk
plate, serving to hold the head af the screw at-
25 tached to the fire-arm, all of which will be
fully set forth hereinafter.
In my drawings, Figure 1 is a front eleva-
tion of the holder. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal
section of the same.
30 Similar reference letters indicate like parts
in all of the figures.
Referring to the drawings, A is the main
plate, provided with an opening, K, about the
shape of an ordinary key-hole, adapted to re-
35 ceive the end of a spring which projects
through it.
B is a thin plate, secured to plate A by riv-
ets, provided with a slot which is circular at
a point near the center and widens out to-
40 ward the forward end of said main plate. The
metal of this second plate is turned out from
theconvex surface ofthemain plate sufficiently
to receive the head of a screw, C, secured to
a fire-arm.D is the spring, attached by a rivet, a, to the 45
main plate A, which rests close to the inner
side of the same, and is bent out so as to turn
into the opening K, and is again bent to form
a seat for the head of the screw C. A collar,
e, is formed at the headof the long slot in the 50
auxiliary plate B to form a rounded bearing to
the neck of the screw when the latter is in
place in the holder. The screw C is provided
with a head that is slightly rounded on its
top and spherical in form on its under side, 55
and when in place in its seat on the spring D
it is clamped to position between said spring
and that portion of the auxiliary plate sur-
rounded by the collar e by the elastic forceof
said spring. The screw C is brought to place 60o
in the holder by being slid from the wide por-
tion of the slot in the plate B back against the
fiat end of the spring D, which latter yields to
the wedging force of the screw-head and al-
lows said head to find its place under the said 65
collar e.
The fire-arm is withdrawn from the holder
byan inward pressure, which relieves the head
of the screw and allows it to be readily drawn
from its hold. 70
Having thus described my invention, what I
claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters
Patent, is-
1. In a fire-arm holder, the plate A,in com-
bination with the auxiliary slotted plate B 75
andspring D, as and for the purpose specified.
2. The combination, with the plates A B and
spring D, of the screw C, as and for the pur-
pose set forth.
In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 8o
presence oftwo witnesses.
JOSEPH C. PETMECKY.
Witnesses:
DAVID H. HEWERTT,
JOHN C. RANDOLPH.
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Petmecky, Joseph C. Fire Arm Holder., patent, November 21, 1882; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth170442/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.