Rifle safety indicator
AssigneeViper Products Company, Inc.
InventorThomas E. Cacek
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Abstract
An indicator for use on a rifle to indicate from a distance that the bolt of the rifle is open, the rifle having a charging handle and a receiver, and comprising in combination a body having two forwardly extending upright rails which are laterally spaced apart; a forwardly extending base integral with the rails and from which the two rails depend; an indicator flag integral with the base and upstanding therefrom; the rails having forward ends configured for interfit with the receiver, and having rearward ends configured for interfit with the charging handle, whereby the flag projects visibly upwardly relative to charging handle and receiver.
Claims10
An indicator for use on a rifle to indicate from a distance that the bolt of the rifle is open, the rifle having a charging handle and a receiver, and comprising in combination:
- a) a body having two forwardly extending upright rails which are laterally spaced apart,
- b) a forwardly extending base integral with the rails and from which the two rails depend,
- c) an indicator flag integral with the base and upstanding therefrom,
- d) the rails having forward ends configured for interfit with the receiver, and having rearward ends configured for interfit with the charging handle, whereby the flag projects visibly upwardly relative to said charging handle and receiver,
- e) said rearward ends projecting rearwardly and being configured to interfit said charging handle,
- f) said base having a rearward terminus spaced rearwardly from said rial rearward ends.
An indicator for use on a rifle to indicate from a distance that the bolt of the rifle is open, the rifle having a charging handle and a receiver, and comprising in combination:
- a) a body having two forwardly extending upright rails which are laterally spaced apart,
- b) a forwardly extending base integral with the rails and from which the two rails depend,
- c) an indicator flag integral with the base and upstanding therefrom,
- d) the rails having forward ends configured for interfit with the receiver, and having rearward ends configured for interfit with the charging handle, whereby the flag projects visibly upwardly relative to said charging handle and receiver,
- e) said base having an inverted forwardly elongated channel shape.
An indicator for use on a rifle to indicate from a distance that the bolt of the rifle is open, the rifle having a charging handle and a receiver, and comprising in combination:
- a) a body having two forwardly extending upright rails which are laterally spaced apart,
- b) a forwardly extending base integral with the rails and from which the two rails depend,
- c) an indicator flag integral with the base and upstanding therefrom,
- d) the rails having forward end configured for interfit with the receiver, and having rearward ends configured for interfit with the charging handle, whereby the flag projects visibly upwardly relative to said charging handle and receiver,
- e) said flag comprising a forwardly elongated, upright plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.