Safety device for guns

[00002] The invention refers to a safety device, which can be actuated by a special key, which is incorporated to the hammer of gun models in which said hammer just protrudes from its shelter slot in the frame.

[00003] Various kinds of gun safety are known, from which we can particularly mention PI 9604463.2, which are different from the current application since they generally refer to common guns with exposed hammer.

[00004] The present gun model with protruding hammer, differently from hammerless guns which can only shot under double action, can also shot under single action, when the gun is previously cocked by the thumb, acting over the corresponding serrated surface of the hammer. Therefore, the safety device object of the invention can be actuated by means of a special key, be the gun uncocked (resting hammer) or cocked for single action shot. In both situations, the circular head of the safety which is located in the hammer should be turned 180° clockwise by means of the special key. This will cause the lifting of the safety head, making it protuberate with relation to the serrated surface of the hammer, thus defining gun deactivation, both visually and by touch. Hammer movements being restrained cause said deactivation.

[00005] The safety device object of the invention is constituted by safety acting by directly obstructing the movement of the gun hammer, with the purpose to avoid accidents when other persons than the owner which has the special safety key handle the gun.

[00006] It should be highlighted that the object of the invention especially refers to hammerless guns, which frame has a format fully lodging the hammer, being different because, in this case, said frame has a slot in its higher curved part allowing a small rectangular and serrated face of the hammer to protrude.

[00007] In the front part of said face, there is the circular safety head provided with a peculiar orifice solely allowing to insert the special key to operate said safety. In the description of this patent, it will be clear that the safety, when activated in the uncocked position, will avoid the hammer cocking by both thumb and the trigger. If the gun hammer is cocked (cocked gun), the safety, when activated, will avoid accidental shots under single action (contact of the trigger with clothes), since it will block the course of the hammer before percussion.

[00008] The safety when activated and therefore protuberant from the hammer when turned 180° clockwise by means of the special key can be deactivated by the same key under any of the mentioned situations, by simply turning it 180° anticlockwise, when it will again be inserted in the corresponding lodging until its head matches the serrated surface of the hammer. Said axial movement of the safety, when turned, is the result of an interaction between a helical recess on the surface of the cylindrical body of said safety with a crosswise pin fixed to the hammer. Said safety movements make the lower end of its cylindrical body interfere or not with an appropriate stopping pin fixed to the frame. As a result, in case of interference, the hammer cannot be normally operated to effect shots and, in case of no interference, shots are allowed.

[00009] Both positions, activated and deactivated, of the present safety device are characterized and assured thanks to an appropriate mechanical system constituted by a small sphere and corresponding spring, located in a crosswise orifice of the cylindrical body of the safety. The system acts by interference between the sphere and two opposed cavities located at different heights in the internal face of the lodging of said body. Thus, both safety positions, activated and inactivated, are clearly determined.

[00020] According to the attached figures, the small serrated higher face (2), mainly plane of the hammer (1), just protrudes from the curved back (22) of the frame, along the whole movement of the hammer (1).

[00021] From the frontal part of the face (2) of the hammer (1), the cylindrical head (6) of the safety (5) protrudes and can be fully lodged in the hole (19) of the hammer.

[00022] The safety is formed by the cylindrical head (6) with larger diameter and the prolonged cylindrical body (5). The head is provided on its upper side with a cylindrical hole (7) which is limited below by a hexagonal orifice (8). From the base of the hexagonal orifice, a cylindrical pin (9) is projected and limited upwards by a small depression (10) located below the higher face of the head (6) having rounded edges.

[00023] The cylindrical head (6) is also provided with a diametrical non-through hole (11), in which the spring (12) and the sphere (13) of the safety positioning system are inserted in relation to its lodging (19) in the hammer (1), in which internal cylindrical face there are two positioning cavities (3) and (4), diametrically opposed and in different heights.

[00024] Just below the head (6) in the cylindrical body (5) of the safety, there is a helical recess (16) which, by interacting with the cylindrical pin (15) fixed crosswise in the hammer, causes the lowering and lifting movements of the safety when turned 180° clockwise or anticlockwise by means of a special key which is insertable in hole (7) over pin (9).

[00025] In the lower surface of the cylindrical body (5) of the safety, there is a lateral recess (14) which, depending on its turning, will allow the hammer to pass through the stopping pin (18) fixed over the frame, thus allowing movements of said hammer which cause gun shot, FIGS. 2 and 4. In FIGS. 5 and 6, the position of the lower edge with the recess (14) of the cylindrical body (5) of the safety is shown when turned 180° clockwise. Said edge will then interfere with the stopping pin (18) by avoiding to cock (1) the hammer under double or single action.

[00026] FIG. 7 shows the cocked gun by action of the thumb over the serrated head (2) of the hammer (1). If the gun is later locked, it cannot shot by any accidental touch on the trigger (20), since the course of the hammer (1) will be interrupted by the stopping pin (18) before percussion, when it interferes with the non-cut part of the lower edge of the safety body (5).

[00027] FIG. 9 shows the left side face of the hammer, in which there is a curved incision (17), which plain bottom is intercepted by the cylindrical hole (19) of the lodging for the cylindrical body (5) of said safety. It therefore becomes possible for the cylindrical edge of the stopping pin (18) projecting to inside the frame to interfere or not with the lower edge of the body (5) of the safety, depending if it is turned to its locked position or not.

[00028] FIG. 9 represents a left side view of the hammer in the uncocked position in which, if the safety is deactivated, there will be no interference between its body (5) and the stopping pin (18), since it will freely pass through the recess (14) of the edge of said body (5), when the hammer is in the reward position.