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1,2?'6,554 ..Fiq.t.H. P. MAXIM.SCABBARD.APPLICATION fiLED JUNE 20, !917.Patented Aug. 20, 1918.10JOIIIIIIIIIIIII II II I,,I II I,.1--1IIIIITHE NOR HI$ ... t TE:IIS CO ,PHOTO.LITHC., WASH/HGtQfl, D.

'UNITED STACl~Es PATENT OFFICEQHIRAM PERCY MAXIl'II, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE MAXIMSILENCER COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, A CORPOP~ATION OF CON­NECTICUT.SCABBARD.1,276,5;)4. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug·. 20, 1918.Application filed June 20, 1917. Serial No. 175,762.To all whom it may conceTn:I3e it kno\';n that I, HJR,DI PERCY JYL1.xnr,a citizen of the United States, residing at ·Hartford, in the county of Hartford and5 State of Connecticut, have invented certainne\Y and useful Improvements in Scabbards,of which the following is a specification.This in.-ention relates to scabbards. Recentlythere has been a change in Federal10 equipmenL the result being that it is exceedinglydifficult, if not virtually impossihle,to suspend a British scabbard from aUnited States belt. The fundamental purposeof the invention is the provision of15 means of a simple and effective characterby which such a scabbard can be attachedto the belt at present in use in this countryand as easily separated, the invention moreespecially residing in the way in which the20 supporting hook is operatiYely associated~with the scabbard, this hook being capahleof detachable connection with the belt.In the drawings accompanying and formingpart of the present specification I have25 shown in detail a convenient form of embodimentof the inyention which to enablsthose skilled in the art to practice the samewill be set forth fully in the followingdescription. Obviously I do not restrictso myself to this particular disclosure; I maydepart therefrom in several particulars withinthe scope of the invention defined by theclaims follmYing said description.Referring to said clra·wings:35 Figures 1 and 2 are longitudinal views ofthe scabbard as seen at practically rightangles from each other.Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line3-3 of Fig. 2.40 Like characters refer to like partsthroughout the several views.The scabbard is denoted by 2, and itsbody may be of any desirable shape. Thatsho>vn is practically the standard at present45 in use in Great Britain: being in the formof an elongated sleeve longitudinally tapering,open at one end and closed at the other.It may be of all metal or of composite form.From this as is inferred the scabbard may50 vary within reasonable limits.A scabbard such as that concisely describedis generally suspended from a belt,and as will be understood the present scabbardis not very well adapted for properconnection with a Uniterl States belt. and 55my fundamental purpose is to obviate thisobstacle and provide in a simple way forthe ready connection and disconnection ofthe scabbard with such a belt or analogouspart. The scabbard on one side externally 60thereof, and near the open end, is providecl~with a block 3. This block may be connectedrigidly 'vith the scabbard in any desirablemanner. It may be brazed, ri veteclin place, or it can be spot welded. This 65block 3 as shown is furnished with projections,studs or rivets 4 spaced a part andextending from the outer fiat face of theblock or equivalent body 3. As illustratedthe block is of rectangular form, ancl its 70inner surface is curved to conform to theexternal surface of the rear vvall of themetallic upper part of the scabbard. Therivets 4 in the present case are integralwith the block 3. From this as will be ohi- 75ous, the block and the rivets can be easilymanufactured: in fact I have obtained themproperly by 'dropping or drop forging.After a part made up of the block and theprojecting rivets is produced, it can be tum- sobled if necessary to remove any slight surfaceimperfections and thereafter the exposedsurface of the block can be milledto smooth the same off around the bases ofthe two rivets. This block 3 presents in 85effect a relatively stationary member of aclamp, the movable clamping member beingin the form of a washer as 5 which canbe cut from sheet stock and which has perforations6. These perforations are adapt- 90eel to receive the rivets 4. The means bvwhich the scabbard is suspended from a beltor the like involves a tab as 7. This tab ismade for example :from a necessary lengthof leather folded or doubled on itself to pre- 95sent a loop and having two sets of registeringperforations 8 which receive the rivets4, one portion of the tab, as will be clear,lying fiatwise against the fiat face of theblock 3 ancl the other portion of the tab 100heing superimposed npon the complementalpart. After the tab is in assembled relationwith the rivets 4, the rectangular washer isapplied by passing the integral rivets 4through the perforations 6 at ·which point 105the rivets are headed over so as to firmlyand substantially clamp the parts. The freeend of the tab 7 may have an eye 9 to re-

1,276,554ce~n· the supporting hook 10~ the hook bt~ingndnptetl to rngagr the belt or othnproper part.Thrrr is,, clecit1d ntlYantnge in pro1·i