Hand weapon

Claim 2

A hand weapon for both defensive and offensive use by one individual, particularly law enforcement officers and the like, comprising a pair of elongated rigid hand-engageable members of generally circular cross section constructed from a relatively hard dense material, each of such members being approximately 12 inches in length and having a hand-receiving portion adjacent one end thereof of substantially a uniform maximum diameter which will permit it to be readily grasped in the hand, as a club, said hand-receiving portion having a plurality of circumferentially extending grooves therein to enable a nonslip grasping thereof, the opposite end of each member having an axially extending bore therein, a tubular sleeve in each respective bore, a bore extending transversely to the axis of said bore and intersecting the same and said sleeve, and a length of link chains operatively connecting the sleeve ends of said members, said chain being of such length that the two members and the chain have a fixed combined length of between approximately 27 to 30 inches, which will permit one-handed use thereof as a unitary weapon, each of said sleeves being secured to the associated member by a pin extending in the said transverse bore therein and passing through such sleeve, each end of said link chain being operatively connected to the associated sleeve, at least one of the ends of said link chain being secured to the associated sleeve by the associated transverse pin.

Claim 3

A hand weapon for both defensive and offensive use by one individual, particularly law enforcement officers and the like, comprising a pair of elongated rigid hand-engageable members of generally circular cross section constructed from a relatively hard dense material, each of such members being approximately 12 inches in length and having a hand-receiving portion adjacent one end thereof of substantially a uniform maximum diameter which will permit it to be readily grasped in the hand, as a club, said hand-receiving portion having a plurality of circumferentially extending grooves therein to enable a nonslip grasping thereof, the opposite end of each member having an axially extending bore therein, a tubular sleeve in each respective bore, a bore extending transversely to the axis of said bore and intersecting the same and said sleeve, and a length of link chains operatively connecting the sleeve ends of said members, said chain being of such length that the two members and the chain have a fixed combined length of between approximately 27 to 30 inches, which will permit one-handed use thereof as a unitary weapon, each of said sleeves being secured to the associated member by a pin extending in the said transverse bore therein and passing through such sleeve, each end of said link chain being operatively connected to the associated sleeve, at least one of the ends of said link chain being secured to the associated sleeve by the associated transverse pin, said connection between the two hand-engageable members including pivotal means operative to enable the two hand-engageable members to freely pivotally move relative to each other about their respective longitudinal axes.

Claim 4

A hand weapon for both defensive and offensive use by one individual, particularly law enforcement officers and the like, comprising a pair of elongated rigid hand-engageable members of generally circular cross section constructed from a relatively hard dense material, each of such members being approximately 12 inches in length and having a hand-receiving portion adjacent one end thereof of substantially a uniform maximum diameter which will permit it to be readily grasped in the hand, as a club, said hand-receiving portion having a plurality of circumferentially extending grooves therein to enable a nonslip grasping thereof, the opposite end of each member having an axially extending bore therein, a tubular sleeve in each respective bore, a bore extending transversely to the axis of said bore and intersecting the same and said sleeve, and a length of link chains operatively connecting the sleeve ends of said members, said chain being of such length that the two members and the chain have a fixed combined length of between approximately 27 to 30 inches, which will permit one-handed use thereof as a unitary weapon, each of said sleeves being secured to the associated member by a pin extending in the said transverse bore therein and passing through such sleeve, each end of said link chain being operatively connected to the associated sleeve, at least one of the ends of said link chain being secured to the associated sleeve by the associated transverse pin, said connection between the two hand-engageable members including pivotal means operative to enable the two hand-engageable members to freely pivotally move relative to each other about their respective longitudinal axes.

Claim 5

A hand weapon according to claim 2, wherein said pivotal means comprising a flange on one of said sleeves and a headed terminal member provided on the coRresponding end of said chain, which head is disposed in the cooperable sleeve and retained therein by said flange.