US 5,495,969 AGranted

Recreational vehicle portable gun rack system

OwnerJohn Cardenasinventor

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Abstract

A gun rack engages the rear of the back seat of a sports vehicle and enables weapons to be carried in a manner tilting toward the front of the vehicle. The rack has no middle struts which would interfere with the scope of rifle and thus allows the rifle to be carried scope down, a much more stable configuration. The rack of the present invention is completely foldable from and to a storage position, and contains specialized structures to enable tie down. Tie-downs are made with respect to eyelets which exist in the rear of sports vehicles, and tie down is effected through the use of quick release straps. Tie down is achieved both at the upper and lower end of the rack of the present invention. Self tying is achieved through a wrap-around strap, or through a decorative over cover. The decorative over cover helps to disguise the presence of the weaponry and thus to reduce the incidence of theft.

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Dependent claims

A gun rack comprising:

an upwardly disposed rifle barrel support supported by an upper end of an upper portion of said gun rack;
an upwardly disposed rifle bumt support supported by a lower end of a lower portion of said gun rack, and wherein said upper portion of said gun rack is pivotable with respect to said lower portion of said gun rack from an open position about a central axis to a position where said rifle barrel support is adjacently disposed with respect to said rifle butt support;
and,
said lower portion of said gun rack further including a pair of "P" shaped elongated loops each having a first segment disposed on said central axis and an opposite segment spaced from said first segment, each opposite segment defining a support disposed parallel to said central axis and wherein said upper portion of said gun rack has a pair of loops each pivotally engaging said first segments, respectively, of the "P" shaped loops of said lower portion of said gun rack, said opposite segments of said "P" shaped loops adapted to overlie and abut said upper position to support said upper and lower portions in said open position.

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