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| Patent Application of the Week: Modular Lockwork for M1911 US Patent Application 20090178322: Modular fire control assembly for a handgun From what I can determine, the inventor wants to make an en-bloc fire control system for the M1911 in the same spirit as the Tokarev or SIG P210. The tension of the sear spring can be tuned by a set screw. One of the obvious problems I see is that you will still have to disassemble the pistol to get the darned thing in place. Another one will be dealing with buyers who have frames with improperly drilled pin holes. |
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| Re: Patent Application of the Week: Modular Lockwork for M1911
May be an attempt to show that JMB didn't really know what he was doing. <BG>
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| Re: Patent Application of the Week: Modular Lockwork for M1911
"An ingenious solution to a nonexistant problem, an answer to a question no one asked." "If it ain't broke, fix it till it is." |
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Ah but didn't Dieudonné Saive do this back in the 20's for the HP? | |
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| Re: Patent Application of the Week: Modular Lockwork for M1911
Disclaimer: I have been retired for awhile so I am not completely sure what is and is not included in the referenced data base. It did not exist in this form when I was working. I did not see any assignment to a corporation. The address listed looks like a patent attorney in private practice. This would indicate that the inventor is a private individual with an idea, that may be an invention. It is very common for private inventors to patent things that solve nonexistant problems. It is also very common for them to then try to sell them to corporations. When the corporation tells them that they do not want to purchase the invention, they rant and rave about the stupidity of the corporations. During my 30 years in research I saw many examples of this. By the way, I also saw a few that were good inventions. One of which I convinced my company to purchase, but that is another story. |
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| Re: Patent Application of the Week: Modular Lockwork for M1911
I wasn't referring to the breech bolt assembly of the patent of 1927 (which was never used by the way) but it turns out it wasn't quite an HP and I was off by a decade. It was a blowback 7.5mm cross between an HP and a 1911 submitted for the French trials of 1933, that had Saive's en bloc removable lockplate system.
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| Re: Patent Application of the Week: Modular Lockwork for M1911
Yeah, I was wonderin'. The P35 is a nightmare to detail strip and reassemble (compared to a 1911), and there's nothing in it I'd consider "modular."
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Yeah, that trigger lever can be a bear for a normal human with only two hands! I didn't mean that it was part of the production HP but that Saive had conceived it during the development of the HP. | |
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| Re: Patent Application of the Week: Modular Lockwork for M1911
Watch someone build a gun around \ incorporating this new "feature"...
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Did it twice to remove that dammed infernal magazine trigger release. Hope to never do it again. | |
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The French played FN for years until lo and behold a French company comes up with a pistol that meets their demands. It was a Petter design wasn't it? Precursor to the Sig Sauer P210? | |
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