Posted April 30, 2020 6:35 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

On April 30, 1981, Gaston Glock filed for his 17th patent, centered on a forward-looking pistol with a host of innovations. The gun at its heart is today’s Glock 17. 
While Mr. Glock today has over 50 patents to his name, with some filed as far back as 1953, he was 51 years old when he filed the original patent in Austria for his G17 handgun. The polymer-framed striker-fired pistol would be adopted first by his country’s army before going on to become what could best be described as a wild global success across the consumer, law enforcement and military markets.
Filed from a Vienna address, (Siebenbürgerstraße 16-12, A-1220) the final patent application included almost 40 drawings, making nearly a dozen separate claims.
The patent application spanned several pages and was filled with figures to detail the design features new to the market
The new handgun had largely been designed and prototyped by Glock, working out of his workshop next to his home garage in the small town of Deutsch-Wagram, just North of Vienna, where he first founded his company in 1963. Prior to his handgun, the engineer had patented and sold an entrenching tool and field knife to the Austrian Army as well

Source: Guns.com

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