D.R.G.M.’s or Deutsches Reichs Gebrauchs-Muster (German utility or design patents 1891-1945)

From the very beginning in 1877 the German Patent Office offered only the Deutsches Reichs Patents but starting in 1891 two distinctly different forms of protection was offered to inventors. Records were kept of the D. R. P.’s or Deutsches Reichs Patents which we have available for reference from the German web site http://depatisnet.dpma.de. The D. R. G. M.’s or Deutsches Reichs Gebrauches Muster records were not kept and to my knowledge the only material available on them are what can be found in the old gun makers periodicals of the time. Each issue of the old periodicals often carried lists of the D.R.P.’s and D.R.G.M.’s which were applied for and issued but these often only contained the number, inventor and title. An example is the D.R.G.M. no. 351857 issued to Hilmar Stötzer as seen below.

Sometimes a D. R. G.M. was considered important enough (or the inventor was willing to pay) to get additional exposure in the old periodicals with an article detailing the invention and drawings which illustrated the features.

This page starts out with a series of D.R.G.M.’s from 1892, the first of which covered a target pistol by Georg Scharfenberg of Mehlis. By 1898 the focus of the coverage changed to that of Drillings. As other articles about D.R.G.M.’s are found, they will be added. I will include all D.R.G.M.’s that are firearms related that are covered in depth. They appear in the order that they were published, not as they were issued.

The D.R.G.M.’s on this page are-

No number-George Sharfenberg-Mehlis-Precision Target Pistol

17461-Peter Oberhammer-Munich-Projectile

20792- George Scharfenberg-Mehlis-Lock up for Kipplauf pistol

20862-David König’s Sohne-Mehlis-Self cocking Hammerless Kipplauf gun

21542-Carl Fleischer-Mehlis-Tesching Revolver

22008-Fr. Wilh. Kessler-Suhl-Self Cocking Hammerless Drilling

47162-Robert Albrecht-Suhl-Hammerless Falling Block Action

32199-Theime & Schlegelmilch-Suhl-Drilling Barrel Assembly

24983-Robert Albrecht-Suhl-Self Cocking Gun

326160-J. G. Anschutz-Mehlis-Rifle Action Hammer

71381-Imm. Meffert-Suhl-Self Cocking Hammerless Drilling