Trigger guard plug
AssigneeJ3 Enterprises, LLC
InventorsJohn J. Madia, II, James Albert Boyce, John M. Aliveto
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Abstract
A trigger plug or device that will be deformable enough to be compressively interfit into or within the area of a weapon's trigger guard so as to be positioned on both sides of and enclose or encase the trigger yet be able to be pushed out of its position in a fluid manner by an index finger of a shooter pushing on a surface of a front projection thereby ejecting the device with the finger coming to rest against a now exposed trigger.
Claims15
A removable trigger guard plug for use with a weapon having a trigger that is operatively located within a trigger guard that can be pushed out of a plug position as part of a fluid shooting motion, comprising:
- an outer wall having front and rear sides;
- forward and rearward projections extending laterally away from the front side of the outer wall for a predetermined distance, the forward projection having a front surface;
- and
- at least one recess defined between the forward and rearward projections with at least the forward projection compressively inter fitting within a space within an interior of the trigger guard of the weapon forward of the trigger so that the trigger is enclosed by the recess, and so that a shooter's trigger finger can push against the front surface of the forward projection to dislodge the trigger plug thereby exposing the trigger.
A compressive trigger guard plug comprising:
- a wall member having front and rear surfaces;
- a pair of members extending outwardly from the front surface so as to define a slot there between;
- at least a first of the pair of members having selected outer surfaces that compressively inter fit within a weapon trigger guard between a front surface of a trigger and inner surfaces of the trigger guard;
- and
- the other of the pair of members inter fitting within the trigger guard and a rear surface of the trigger and compressively against a portion of an inner surface of the trigger guard
A method of safely securing a trigger of a weapon with a device and to fluidly eject the device to expose the trigger comprising the steps of:
- forming a device from a deformable material;
- providing forward and rearward projections with the forward projection having an exposed front surface
- compressively inter-fitting the deformable device within a weapon trigger guard and around the front and rear of a trigger;
- forming the exposed front surface with a defined portion;
- and
- pushing against the defined portion and fluidly ejecting the device from its plugged position while simultaneously freeing and exposing the trigger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.