Package and article carriers – Carried by animate bearer – Article held by receiver
Reexamination Certificate
1999-09-30
2001-02-20
Cronin, Stephen K. (Department: 3727)
Package and article carriers
Carried by animate bearer
Article held by receiver
C224S195000, C224S198000, C224S240000, C224S243000, C224S912000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06189751
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a handgun holster, and more particularly to a handgun holster with tilting forward unlocking mechanism.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Conventionally, a law enforcement officer usually wears a handgun in patrol. And in most cases officer wears the handgun in his/her waist. However, the only device for prevention of robbery of the handgun is a strap equipped with a buckle or the like. Obviously, it is not enough and thus instances of fugitive successfully removes handgun from its holster occurs. In order to solve the above problem, a holster equipped with a locking mechanism for prevention the extraction of handgun from the holster by another party other than the law enforcement officer is disclosed by a prior art as detailed below.
A user must tilt holster backward in order to remove a handgun from a conventional holster A equipped with above locking mechanism as shown in FIG.
1
. But this is unsatisfactory for the following reasons:
1) Not ergonomical because handgun backward tilting does not conform to the response of law enforcement officer to a critical circumstance.
2) Backward tilting for extracting handgun will easily cause the handgun in a dangerous position, i.e., handgun is possible of being withdrawn by fugitive from behind.
3) The speed for removing handgun is relatively low and even worse handgun may not be removed in a critical situation due to caught in the holster.
Thus, it is desirable to provide a holster with tilting forward unlocking mechanism in order to overcome the above drawbacks of prior art.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a holster with tilting forward unlocking mechanism wherein a wearer must unfasten a strap first and then tilt holster forward in order to cause a locking element to retract into a trigger guard restraining device so as to permit a handgun to freely remove from the holster.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description taken with the accompanying drawings.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5167355 (1992-12-01), Hill
patent: 5284281 (1994-02-01), Nichols
A & J
Brevard Maerena W.
Cronin Stephen K.
Exquisite Plastic Model Co., Ltd.
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