Adjustable firearm accessory
AssigneeSig Sauer, Inc.
InventorMichael K. Morrison
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Abstract
A firearm accessory mounted to a firearm accessory rail and allowing adjustment of the accessory relative to the firearm accessory rail includes an indexing member having a tab structured to engage with one of the series of slots of the firearm accessory rail, and having two or more indexing slots, the two or more indexing slots spaced apart from one another at a distance less than the regular pitch interval of the accessory rail, and a single clamp having a crossmember structured to engage with one of the two or more indexing slots, the single clamp structured to simultaneously secure the accessory and the indexing member to the firearm accessory rail in a single clamping action.
Claims17
1-5. (canceled)
A firearm accessory including a mounting system for adjustably mounting the accessory to a firearm accessory rail having a series of slots, the firearm accessory comprising:
- a main body;
- an angled portion coupled to the main body and structured to clamp to a first angled portion of the firearm accessory rail;
- an adjustment plate including at least two slots in which a distance between the at least two slots is less than a slot pitch of the series of slots of the firearm accessory rail;
- a keeper having an angled portion and structured to clamp to a second angled portion of the firearm accessory rail, the second angled portion of the firearm accessory rail opposite the first angled portion of the accessory rail;
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- a single clamping device coupled between the main body and the keeper, the single clamping device structured to cause the angled portion and the keeper to engage the firearm accessory rail at respective angled portions of the firearm accessory rail.
A firearm accessory mountable to an accessory mounting rail having a longitudinal axis and a slot extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the firearm accessory comprising:
- an accessory device;
- an adjustment plate positioned between the accessory device and the accessory mounting rail when the firearm accessory is mounted to the accessory mounting rail, the adjustment plate having a tab protruding from a first side of the adjustment plate, the tab being sized and shaped to engage the slot on the accessory mounting rail to establish a longitudinal position of the adjustment plate along the longitudinal axis of the accessory mounting rail, the adjustment plate further including two or more detents on a second side of the adjustment plate opposite the first side, the detents being spaced apart longitudinally;
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- a clamp carried by the accessory device, the clamp structured to engage the accessory mounting rail to draw the clamp and the accessory device toward the accessory mounting rail and into engagement with one of the detents on the adjustment plate to secure the accessory device to the accessory mounting rail at a selected position along the longitudinal axis of the rail and to press the adjustment plate against the accessory mounting rail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.