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US 2020/0049454 A1Published application
Lateral Flashlight Lever Clamp
OwnerAlex Rockwell Leutzingerinventor
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An apparatus that attaches to a long-gun-mounted flashlight and augments the flashlight with a secondary mechanical means of activation, so that the user can activate the flashlight in a more ergonomic, less awkward motion, with their support hand. The inventive apparatus includes a two-piece, clam-shell clamp which attaches the apparatus to the tailcap of a long-gun-mounted flashlight. A lever/paddle is attached to the two-piece clamp by way of a pivot pin, which affords the lever/paddle a swinging motion, and allows a protrusion on the underside of the paddle/lever to make slight contact with the host flashlight's tailcap activation button. When the paddle/lever is depressed, the pivot mechanism converts lateral activation pressure on the paddle/lever to forward activation pressure on the host flashlight's button, wherein activating the flashlight.
A mechanical apparatus that attaches to a tubular-bodied, long-gun-mounted flashlight which affords a user, the ability to activate the flashlight's tailcap button by pressing a lever or paddle with said user's support hand, whereby utilizing a system of leverage that converts the direction of mechanical actuation required to press the flashlight's tailcap button, from forward pressure that is parallel to the flashlights body, to lateral pressure that is perpendicular to the flashlight's body, such that the flashlight's inherent method of activation is augmented with a secondary method of activation.
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