On this day in 1953 John W. Riley was granted the patent for GUN CARRIAGE ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLE DASH PANEL. U.S. Patent No. 2,655,298.
This invention relates to new and useful improvements in gun carriages and the primary object of the present invention is to provide an attachment for vehicle dash panels for supporting a pistol concealed behind a dash panel and which is readily actuated to expose the pistol supported thereby.
Another important object of the present invention is to provide a gun carriage including a vertically swingable pistol support or holder that is quickly and readily mounted on a dash panel and a key operated locking mechanism mounted on the dash panel and engaging the support to lock the support raised behind the dash panel.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a gun carriage attachment for dash panels of vehicles that is quickly and readily applied to or removed from a dash panel in a convenient manner and which is so constructed as to receive various types of revolvers or pistols and permit rapid removal of a gun therefrom.
A still further aim of the present invention is to provide a gun carriage attachment for vehicle panels that is simple and practical in construction, strong and reliable in use, small and compact in structure, inexpensive to manufacture and install, and otherwise well adapted for the purposes for which the same is intended.
