Trigger unit for a firearm

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11859930-B2
Application number	US-202017757138-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2020
Priority date	Dec 17, 2019
Publication date	Jan 2, 2024
Grant date	Jan 2, 2024

Abstract

A trigger unit for a firearm, including a hammer rotatable about a hammer axis and prestressable by a hammer spring, a trigger lever rotatable about a trigger axis, the trigger lever has a trigger and a trigger rear, which receives at least one interrupter. A sear is rotatably mounted about a sear axis and prestressable by a sear spring. The sear axis and the trigger axis coincide, and the sear has a bearing recess for receiving and limited rotation about a disconnector axis of a disconnector pivot formed on the underside of the disconnector, the bearing recess being formed surrounding the disconnector pivot at least partially in the direction of rotation about the disconnector axis.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A trigger unit for a firearm, comprising:
a hammer rotatably mounted about a hammer axis and prestressable by means of a hammer spring;
a trigger lever rotatably mounted about a trigger axis, the trigger lever having a trigger and a trigger rear, where the trigger lever is formed to receive at least one disconnector; and
a sear mounted rotatably about a sear axis and prestressable by means of a sear spring;
wherein
the sear is arranged at least partially within the trigger lever such that the sear axis and the trigger axis coincide; and
the sear has on an upper side a bearing recess for receiving a disconnector pivot formed on an underside of the disconnector, the bearing recess providing limited rotation of the disconnector about a disconnector axis, and the bearing recess at least partially enclosing the disconnector pivot in the direction of rotation about the disconnector axis.

2. The trigger unit of claim 1 , wherein the trigger lever is integrally formed.

3. The trigger unit of claim 1 , wherein a sear protrusion is formed on an underside of the sear.

4. The trigger unit of claim 3 , wherein an adjustable adjustment device is formed on the sear for adjusting a part of the sear protrusion that projects on the underside of the sear.

5. The trigger unit of claim 4 , wherein the adjustable adjustment device includes a grub screw or a prismatic adjustment member.

6. The trigger unit of claim 1 , wherein an inner surface of the trigger rear facing the sear slopes backwards.

7. The trigger unit of claim 6 , wherein the inner surface of the trigger rear facing the sear includes an inclined surface.

8. The trigger unit of claim 1 , wherein the sear has a sear edge and a surface of the sear edge facing a hammer cam of the hammer has a convex shape.

9. The trigger unit of claim 8 , wherein the convex-shaped surface of the sear edge has a radius r relative to a distance d between an apex of the convex-shaped surface and the trigger axis or sear axis in the range of 0.8 d<r<1.2 dl.

10. The trigger unit of claim 8 , wherein the convex-shaped surface of the sear edge has a radius r relative to a distance d between an apex of the convex-shaped surface and the trigger axis or sear axis in the range of 0.85 d<r<1.1 d.

11. The trigger unit of claim 8 , wherein the convex-shaped surface of the sear edge has a radius r relative to a distance d between an apex of the convex-shaped surface and the trigger axis or sear axis in the range of 0.85 d<r<1.0 d.

12. The trigger unit of claim 1 , wherein a sear spring support for supporting the sear spring is formed on both sides of the sear in a transverse direction.

13. The trigger unit of claim 1 , wherein a hammer spring support for supporting the hammer spring is formed on both sides of the trigger lever in a transverse direction.

14. The trigger unit of claim 1 , wherein an underside of the disconnector defines a recess for at least partially receiving a disconnector spring.

15. The trigger unit of claim 1 , wherein the sear defines a spring recess has on a side facing the disconnector, the spring recess configured to at least partially receive the disconnector spring.

16. The trigger unit of claim 15 , wherein the spring recess is at least partially open laterally in at least one transverse direction.

17. The trigger unit of claim 16 , wherein the spring recess has an outwardly sloping ramp.

18. The trigger unit of claim 1 , wherein at least the hammer, the hammer spring, the disconnector, a disconnector spring, the sear, the sear spring, and the trigger lever are arranged in a trigger unit housing to form a drop-in trigger unit.

19. The trigger unit of claim 18 , wherein the trigger unit housing of the drop-in trigger unit is configured to be penetrated on an underside by at least one socket set screw.

Assignees

• Glock Tech Gmbh

Inventors

• Markut Karl
• Werdnig Andreas

Classifications

• F41A19/10

  Triggers; Trigger mountings · CPC title

• F41A19/14

  Hammers, i.e. pivotably-mounted striker elements; Hammer mountings · CPC title

• F41A17/74

  Hammer safeties, i.e. means for preventing the hammer from hitting the cartridge or the firing pin (F41A17/02 - F41A17/40 take precedence) · CPC title

• F41A17/46

  Trigger safeties, i.e. means for preventing trigger movement (F41A17/02 - F41A17/40 take precedence) · CPC title

• F41A19/02 Primary

  Burst limiters (F41A19/67 takes precedence) · CPC title