Dual adjustable mounting shoe

• US 10,317,173 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2017
• Issued: 06/11/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Knight Vision, LLLP
• Original Assignee: Knight Vision, LLLP
• Inventors: DiCarlo, Joseph, McCreight, Jr., Robert J.
• Primary Examiner(s): King, Anita M
• Application Number:
  US15/498,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20170248389A1
• Time in Patent Office: 776 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/041 Allowing quick release of the apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/00 Other supports for positioning apparatus or articles heads thereof F16M11/02 ; undercarriages thereof F16M11/20 ; adapted to be stuck in the ground A45F3/44 ; sockets or holders for poles or posts E04H12/22; Means for steadying hand-held apparatus or articles supports for measuring instruments G01D11/30; supports for casings of remote control switching devices H01H9/025
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 11/003 Mountings with a dove tail element, e.g. "Picatinny rail systems"
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 11/007 the device being tilted in a vertical plane
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A dual-adjustable mounting shoe has a shoe body. A middle portion of the shoe body has at least one pocket formed therein. At least one pocket insert is positioned at least partially within the pocket. The pocket insert has a raised tooth positioned along a rear of the shoe body and a forward edge positioned along a front of the shoe body, wherein the at least one pocket insert is movable relative to the shoe body to adjust a position of at least one of the raised tooth and the forward edge relative to the shoe body. At least one fastener is engageable with the at least one pocket insert to secure the at least one pocket insert in a stationary position at least partially within the pocket. The dual-adjustable mounting shoe is usable with both a rear-indexing receptacle and a forward-indexing receptacle.

Claims

1. A dual-adjustable mounting shoe comprising:

a shoe body;

a middle portion of the shoe body having at least one pocket formed therein;

at least one pocket insert positioned at least partially within the pocket, the pocket insert having a raised tooth positioned along a rear of the shoe body and a forward edge positioned along a front of the shoe body, wherein the at least one pocket insert is movable relative to the shoe body to adjust a position of at least one of the raised tooth and the forward edge relative to the shoe body; and

at least one fastener engageable with the at least one pocket insert to secure the at least one pocket insert in a stationary position at least partially within the pocket.

2. The adjustable mounting shoe of claim 1, further comprising a base plate, wherein the shoe body is mounted to a surface of the base plate.

3. The adjustable mounting shoe of claim 2, wherein the surface of the base plate further comprises a base surface of the pocket, wherein the at least one pocket insert is securable to the base surface of the pocket.

4. The adjustable mounting shoe of claim 3, wherein the at least one fastener further comprises a threaded fastener engaged between the at least one pocket insert and the base surface of the pocket.

5. The adjustable mounting shoe of claim 1, wherein a plane of a base surface of the pocket is oriented substantially perpendicular to a plane of all sidewalls of the pocket.

6. The adjustable mounting shoe of claim 1, wherein the raised tooth of the pocket insert forms at least one edge of the pocket.

7. The adjustable mounting shoe of claim 1, wherein the at least one pocket insert is movable relative to the shoe body in at least a first direction and a second direction, wherein the first direction is substantially perpendicular to the second direction.

8. The adjustable mounting shoe of claim 1, further comprising a guiding system engagable with the at least one pocket insert to guide movement of the at least one pocket insert within the pocket.

9. The adjustable mounting shoe of claim 1, wherein the pocket insert further comprises a body portion connected to the raised tooth, wherein a height of the body portion is less than a height of the raised tooth.

10. The adjustable mounting shoe of claim 9, wherein the height of the body portion of the pocket insert is less than a height of the shoe body.

11. The adjustable mounting shoe of claim 1, wherein the at least one pocket insert further comprises a hole formed therein, wherein the at least one fastener is positioned through the hole, and wherein a head of the at least one fastener is positioned below a top surface of the at least one pocket insert.

12. A dual-adjustable mounting shoe comprising:

a shoe body;

a middle portion of the shoe body having a rear pocket and a forward pocket formed therein;

a first pocket insert positioned at least partially within the rear pocket, the first pocket insert having a raised tooth positioned along a rear of the shoe body, wherein the first pocket insert is movable relative to the shoe body to adjust a position of the raised tooth relative to the shoe body;

a second pocket insert positioned at least partially within the forward pocket, the second pocket insert having a forward edge positioned proximate to a front edge of the shoe body, wherein the second pocket insert is movable relative to the shoe body to adjust a position of the forward edge relative to the shoe body; and

at least one fastener engageable with each of the first and second pocket inserts, respectively, to secure the first and second pocket inserts in a stationary position at least partially within the pocket.

13. The dual-adjustable mounting shoe of claim 12, wherein each of the first pocket insert and the second pocket insert are independently movable.

14. The dual-adjustable mounting shoe of claim 12, wherein the forward edge of the second pocket insert is formed at an obtuse angle relative to a top plane of the second pocket insert.

15. The dual-adjustable mounting shoe of claim 12, wherein each of the first and second pocket inserts further comprise a guiding system engagable between a bottom surface of the first and second pocket inserts and a floor of the rear and forward pockets, respectively, wherein the guiding system guides a movement of the first and second pocket inserts in at least one direction.

16. The dual-adjustable mounting shoe of claim 12, wherein the second pocket insert has a thickness dimension that is greater than a thickness dimension of the first pocket insert.

17. The dual-adjustable mounting shoe of claim 12, wherein an upper surface of the second pocket insert is substantially coplanar with an upper surface of the shoe body.

18. The dual-adjustable mounting shoe of claim 12, wherein the shoe body further comprises a pocket-separation wall positioned between the rear and forward pockets.