# US 2014/0360075 A1 · Recoil Pad Mold > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0360075 A1 - Document ID: US20140360075A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/468,077 - Filed: 2014-08-25 - Published: 2014-12-11 - Earliest claimed: 2010-12-31 - Assignees: North Pass, Ltd. - Applicants: North Pass, Ltd. - Inventors: Phillip D. Howe; Richard A. Moore; Richard K. Herndon - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140360075A1 ## CPC - B29C 33/42: characterised by the shape of the moulding surface, e.g. ribs or grooves - B29C 33/306: {Exchangeable mould parts, e.g. cassette moulds, mould inserts (moulds with exchangeable mould parts for injection moulding B29C45/2673; mounting of exchangeable mould inserts for injection moulding B29C45/2675)} - B29C 33/308: {Adjustable moulds (for injection moulding B29C45/376)} - F41C 23/08: Recoil absorbing pads - B29C: SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B37/00 - B32B41/00) - F41C: SMALLARMS, e.g. PISTOLS, RIFLES (functional features or details common to both smallarms and ordnance, mountings therefor F41A; projecting missiles without use of explosive or combustible propellant charge F41B); ACCESSORIES THEREFOR ## Abstract A recoil pad having a pad in which the elastomer contains a plurality of pockets having one or more pocket characteristics adjustable over the entirety or portions of the pad to achieve recoil pad characteristics which can be incrementally variably matched to the recoil energy characteristics and recoil energy transfer characteristics of a particular target stock. ## Claims ### Claim at position 1 1-9. (canceled) ### Claim 10 A mold for production of a recoil pad for a weapon, comprising: a) a mold having a mold cavity adapted to receive within a base of said recoil pad, said base have a plurality of aperture elements which communicate between a front surface and a back surface, said base overmoldable by an amount of elastomer curable within said mold cavity to form a pad of said recoil pad; and b) one or more core pins within said mold cavity located to pass through a corresponding one or more of said plurality of aperture elements of said base received within said mold cavity, said one or more core pins having one or more core pin characteristics variably adjustable within said mold cavity to generate corresponding variable adjustment in one or more pocket characteristics of at least one pocket within said pad. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The mold for production of a recoil pad for a weapon of claim 10, wherein said one or more core pin characteristics variably adjustable in said mold cavity comprises numerosity of said one or more core pins. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The mold for production of a recoil pad for a weapon of claim 11, wherein said one or more core pin characteristics variably adjustable in said mold cavity comprises location of said one or more core pins. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The mold for production of a recoil pad for a weapon of claim 12, wherein said one or more core pin characteristics variably adjustable in said mold cavity comprises a pattern of said one or more core pins. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The mold for production of a recoil pad for a weapon of claim 13, wherein said one or more core pin characteristics variably adjustable in said mold cavity further comprises height of said one or more core pins. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The mold for production of a recoil pad for a weapon of claim 14, wherein said one or more core pin characteristics variably adjustable in said mold cavity comprises cross sectional area of said one or more core pins. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The mold for production of a recoil pad for a weapon of claim 15, wherein variable adjustment of said one or more core pin characteristics in said mold cavity to generate corresponding variable adjustment in one or more pocket characteristics of at least one pocket within said pad allows production within said mold of a plurality of variably different recoil pad structures of said recoil pad. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The mold for production of a recoil pad for a weapon of claim 16, wherein each of said different recoil pad structures alter recoil pad characteristics of said recoil pad. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The mold for production of a recoil pad for a weapon of claim 17, wherein said recoil pad characteristics are selected from the group consisting of absorption of an amount of recoil energy delivered from a stock of a weapon and delay in transfer of said amount of recoil energy delivered from said stock of a weapon to a shooter. ### Claim 19 A recoil pad for a weapon, comprising: a) a base have a plurality of apertures each of which communicate between a front surface and a back surface, said plurality of apertures adapted to allow passage of one or more core pins located within a mold cavity to allow receipt of said base within a mold, said plurality of apertures configured to allow one or more core pin characteristic of said one or more core pins to be variably adjusted within said mold cavity; and b) a pad overmolded to said base, said pad having at least one pocket generated by said one or more core pins, said at least one pocket variably adjusted by corresponding variable adjustment in said one or more core pins located within said mold cavity. ### Claim 20 (canceled)