Abstract: A quick-draw handgun holster is contoured and designed to be worn beneath clothing in the abdominal area with the gun lying obliquely with its butt only extending angularly upwardly for engagement by a lateral, substantially horizontal movement of the hand of the wearer.

Abstract: A holster which is designed to carry securely a number of different sizes of handguns with equal proper fit. The holster is preferably formed of a composite fabric-foam-fabric material, or in certain cases, of leather. The holster sides are secured together partially in the region adjacent to the underside of the frame near the trigger guard. A separate welt member is securable between the two sides of the holster and presents to the frame in the region of the trigger guard, a smooth conforming surface which urges the handgun into a snug fit within the holster. A typical interchangeable welt is a thick rubber or rubber-like washer with a radius conforming to the curve of the front of the trigger guard as it joins the frame toward the front of the handgun. The interchangeable welt may be held in place by a screw and nut or other fastener which may pass through opposite sides of the holster.

Abstract: A hand gun in a holster is completely concealed by a simulated carrying pouch. A backing is mounted on a wearer, as with a belt around the wearer's waist. A holster is mounted on the backing completely within the area defined by the top, bottom and ends of the backing. A flap, permanently attached at the bottom to the backing but releasably attached by hook and pile fasteners (VELCRO.RTM.) at the top and two ends of the backing defines a textile material (fabric) or leather container which simulates a carrying pouch and completely conceals the holster and hand gun. Pockets may be provided in the flap. The holster is reversibly mounted on the backing using hook and pile fasteners, and hook and pile fastener straps releasably hold the hand gun within the holster. To gain access to the hand gun, the hook and pile fasteners at the top and two ends of the backing and flap are detached to completely expose the handgun for ready access.

Abstract: A adjustable holder mounting platform attachable to the waste belt of the wearer for use on either leg, and designed to accommodate a wide variety of handgun holsters. The mounting platform is horizontally and vertically adjustable so that virtually any handgun holster may be placed in an optimum position for the user. The belt mountable faceplate and the platform itself are connected to a disk which provides a pivot around which the platform may rotate, giving the users legs freedom of movement while he or she walks.

Abstract: Handgun holster having a restraining device inside the holster for retaining the handgun in the holster and inhibiting inadvertent removal from the holster, the restraining device employing a spring biased catch for engaging the trigger guard with a selectively adjustable member to provide increased or decreased restraining force on the trigger guard.

Abstract: A holster having a body molded of an elastomeric material, with that body being doubled back along a fold region essentially midway between two opposite edges of the molded body, and with those edges then being secured together by rivets or the like to define a gun receiving recess between front and rear panels of the holster. The rear panel contains a passage through which a belt extends for supporting the device from the belt. The two connected edges of the elastomeric body preferably have flanges projecting toward one another and connectable together, and which interfit to locate the flanges relative to one another. A gun may be retained in the holster by two flaps projecting upwardly from the front and rear panels and connectable together. The rear flap is preferably thicker and stiffer than the front flap, and desirably each of the flaps is slightly thicker and stiffer than the panel from which it projects upwardly.

Abstract: An anti-theft pistol holster having a body casing with a lower muzzle end and an upper access opening, a yieldable member adjacent the muzzle end for yieldably seating the muzzle of a pistol, a rigid keeper member adjacent the upper opening in opposed relation to the yieldable means and being movable between a position of positive engagement with the butt of a pistol and a released position disengaged from the pistol butt.

Abstract: The organizer includes a molded holster for a hand tool having a piston grip, the holster having a supporting strap for suspending the holster from the waist belt of the wearer at a selected distance below the waist belt. The organizer also has a leg encircling strap to hold the holster snugly against the leg, and having optional attachments for holding a chuck key, a plurality of tool bits, a tool or nail bag, or several boxes of fasteners.

Abstract: A flap holster with the flap pivotally and removably secured to either side of an ambidextrious holster. The holster inlcudes an opening for the insertion and removal of a handgun and a transverse slot below the opening on each side. The flap is pivotally connected to one side of the holster and extends over the handgun opening. On the underside of the flap, an extensible strip is secured at one end to the flap and includes an end hook at the opposite end to engage one of the transverse slots and secure the flap in place. The extensible strap is preferably captured in a fabric tunnel in the underside of the flap. An inextensible flexible strap is secured at both ends to the extensible strap to limit its extension length to avoid over stressing its elastic properties. The hook is preferably a reverse directed tab dimensioned to slip into the transverse slot allowing the elasticity of the extensible strip to hold the flap closed.

Abstract: A hand gun holster to operationally hold a thirty eight revolver, an automatic pistol or another hand gun, has a pair of belt loops made of polypropylene medium weight webbing in turn positioned and supported by a pair of curvable assemblies of heavy weight nylon webbing having sewn thereon respectively and cooperatively spaced heavy duty nap, i.e. loop, and hook fastening materials, with these pair of curvable assemblies being arranged in alignment to receive and to hold an automatic pistol, and being arranged perpendicularly to receive and to hold a thirty eight revolver.

Abstract: A holster includes an adjustable safety strap which is adjustably attached to the back wall of the holster. In one embodiment of the invention, the holster additionally includes an improved fastening assembly for attaching the support strap to the back wall of the holster.

Abstract: An apparatus for storing and recharging a rechargeable electric tool such as an electric drill is disclosed. The apparatus includes a holster that receives a portion of the tool and facilitates it being detachably affixed to the clothing of the user. The holster further includes an opening exposing the electrical contacts used to recharge the tool. The apparatus further includes a base for recharging the tool. The base engages the holster and makes electrical contact with the electrical contacts on the tool through the opening in the holster.

Abstract: An improved holster comprising a sheet of compressible material or a composite including a compressible layer formed into a pouch to hold a handgun with an edge seam at the rear. At the front inside of the holster is a stiffener member secured to the holster sheet material by at least one generally vertical stitch line. The stitch line distorts the compressible material and the stiffening member to form a front groove for receiving the barrel and front sight of the handgun. A protective sleeve may cover the stiffener. An improved universally adjustable strap arrangement includes hook and pile type fabric on an inner face of a belt loop formed in the holster body and the mating hook and pile material on one face of the flat strap. The angle and length of the strap may be adjusted by relative movement of the strap within the belt loop. Securement of one end of the strap results from engagement of the hook and pile fabric and is insured by pressure from the wearer's belt when worn.

Abstract: An ambidextrious military type holster designed for belt, leg, chest or shoulder carrying with or without a flap. The holster employs a layered body with the outer two layers defining pairs of horizontally disposed and vertically disposed slots on each major face of the holster adapted to receive a belt on either side through the horizontally disposed pairs of slots or a clip through the vertically disposed pairs of slots. The flap may be secured by the clip and includes an extensible strap and hook for securing the flap to the holster body by one of the slots. The clip includes a generally planar body defining a pair of facing opening catches at one end and a hinge at the opposite end. A resilient member forms the hinge pin of the hinge and includes a pair of resilient legs which are pivotal over the generally planar body and includes knee portions which engage the catches and define a belt or strap slot with the body. An extender strap allows the holster to be used as a leg holster.

Abstract: A protective hand gun holster with an abrasion-resistant longitudinal spine structure capable of receiving hand guns with protruding sharp sights. The spine structure takes the form of a heavy, wear-resistant web treated with a polymer to prevent snagging and tearing by a gun sight.

Abstract: A handgun holster having a separable flap for covering part of the top opening of the holster pocket. The flap is secured by separable fasteners having one part of the fastener on the holster body and a mating fastener part on the flap on one side of the holster and a second separable fastener on the other side of the holster body having one fastener part on the holster body and a mating fastener part on the cover flap which secures the second side of the cover flap and also secures a belt loop to the holster body.

Abstract: A holster made of two matching pieces of material joined together to form a double-ended gun pocket, shaped to fit a particular gun and contain substantial portions of it. The holster has a belt loop on each face of the gun pocket and a belt slot through both faces outside of the trigger guard area, which position the gun and holster on a belt at an acute angle from the vertical, such that a forward-tilt and a cross-draw slant mode of carry are both made possible by inverting the holster and thus reversing the angle. Reversing the holster laterally changes it from right-handed to left-handed.

Abstract: A handgun holster includes a strap which is adjustably positionable on a wearer's belt, and a bluing protection pad having one end adjustably secured to the strap and the other end to the belt. In use, the bluing protection pad is folded between the belt and the strap to define an adjustable gun receiving pocket capable of securing a wide variety of handguns. The interior of the gun receiving pocket is lined to protect and preserve the gun's blued finish, and such protection is enhanced by the treatment of the liner with a light film of oil.

Abstract: A protective hand gun holster with an abrasion-resistant longitudinal spine structure capable of receiving hand guns with protruding sharp sights. The spine structure takes the form of a heavy, wear-resistant web treated with a polymer to prevent snagging and tearing by a gun sight.

Abstract: One embodiment of this invention provides a holster for holding a hand gun. The holster includes a generally U-shaped mounting spring under stiff tension against the exterior inside face of the holster. The mounting spring has a U-shaped fastening portion that fits into a pocket on the inside face of the holster. A fastener extends through the side wall of the holster to secure the fastening portion of the spring to the holster. The holster can be worn without threading a belt through a belt loop on the holster. Instead, the mounting spring firmly but releasably clips the holster to the waistband of the user's trousers, or over the user's belt. The spring can be pulled away from the side of the holster against the bias of the spring to provide a gap for slipping the holster over the waistband or the belt, after which the spring is released, allowing the bias of the spring to clamp the holster firmly in place.

Abstract: A holster system for a handgun that permits the gun to be safely carried and drawn from any one of three conventional modes of carry without the need of special fixtures.

Abstract: There is disclosed a holster adapted to hold a gun-like labeler. The holster is adapted to be connected to a belt of a user and to be worn in either the left-hand or right-hand position. The holster preferably includes a plurality of holster members with one of the holster members being adapted to carry a labeler and other holster members being adapted to carry a label roll, a utility knife, and the like.

Abstract: A pistol holster has features that allow the safety strap to be adjusted to accommodate different sizes of pistols. The safety strap has an outer end secured to the outer portion of the holster body by a releasable fastener. The inner end of the safety strap is secured also by a releasable fastener. The inner fastener allows the strap to be fastened at various points along the length of the holster to vary the dimensions of the loop defined by the strap. The strap passes through a slot in the side of the holster to retain it. A flap depends from the top of the holster for protecting the inner fastener. Preferably, the inner fastener consists of strips of material that adhere to each other when pressed into contact.

Abstract: A combination holster and belt in which the holster is rapidly attachable to or separable from the belt comprising a holster with two spaced understanding pins on the side of the holster next to the body of the person wearing the holster, each pin comprising a shank and a generally flat head of substantial larger diameter than the diameter of the shank; and a belt having affixed on the inside surface thereof two rigid slotted plates spaced apart substantially the same distance as the distance between said pins, each of the plates and the adjacent portion of the belt being perforated with a slot, one end of which is large enough to admit the flat head of said pin and the other end of which is smaller in diameter than the head and yet large enough to admit the shank of said pin.

Abstract: A holster assembly for handguns and the like is disclosed, having a wide range of uses, adapted to be supported under the arm in the armpit on either side thereof attached to a shoulder harness or attached to either leg.

Abstract: A belt loop for a gun holster made from a thin strip of material which is formed into a loop which is to swivel upon the pistol supporting housing of a holster. The belt being worn by the wearer is to pass through the loop. The ends of the loop are detachable connected together so as to permit attachment and detachment with the belt. This device is affixed to the exterior of a gun holster in a manner to permit easy accessibility to a gun carried in a holster by either the right or left hand.

Abstract: A concealment holster which fits an article such as a firearm to be carried in complete concealment. The holster is provided by an elongated pouch having a rounded bottom and an open top, so as to contain a handgun in butt-inverted position. The pouch is detachably connected to the shirttail of a wearer so that the pouch and its contents are hidden behind and/or beneath the wearer's trousers waistband.