Colt's Manufacturing Company, Inc.

New Colt Holding Corporation

Gregory Rozum

Paul M Hochstrate

Mark Fraher

Martinho Tavares

Jerold R Crowley

An elastomeric O-ring compressed between a laminated plastic grip panel and a pistol grip frame provides a vibration dampening structure for a pistol. The elastomeric O-rings are placed around fastener bushings on the grip frame. The grip panels are secured to the grip frame by inserting threaded fasteners through fastener holes in the grip panel into the fastener bushings. Each O-ring is received by the grip panel in a corresponding annular recess that has a depth that is less than the diameter of the O-ring. When the threaded fasteners are tightened, the elastomeric O-rings are compressed between the grip frame and the grip panel. The compressed O-rings prevent loosening of the threaded fasteners by improving the vibration dampening characteristics of the pistol and by increasing frictional pressure between the grip panel and the head of each threaded fastener.

Pistol grip panel with vibration dampening structure

A modelsemiautomatic pistol thumb safety or decocking lever adapted to be coupled to a modelreceiver. The thumb safety has a selector pivotally coupled about an axis of rotation to a side of the modelreceiver the selector having a flat surface portion offset from the axis of rotation and contacting the side. The selector has a raised surface portion offset from the axis of rotation and facing the side. The safety is adapted to be selectable from a first position to a second position. The flat surface portion covers a swept area when the safety is rotated from the first position to the second position. The swept area is covered by the raised surface portion in either the first position or the second position.

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Thomaston, CT, United States of America

Gregory Rozum