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Coupled dual switch actuators with lockout feature for a lighting attachment to a firearm

  • US 10,451,384 B2
  • Filed: 03/15/2017
  • Issued: 10/22/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An illuminator for use with a firearm having a trigger disposed below and aligned longitudinally with a barrel of the firearm, comprising:

  • a housing including the illuminator and a battery, the housing mountable under the barrel and forward of and proximate the trigger of the firearm; and

    a first and a second mechanically coupled, pivoting switch actuator are each mounted at a respective pivot center disposed along a common transverse centerline on a rearward surface of the housing, one on either side of the plane of the trigger;

    whereinthe first and second mechanically coupled, pivoting switch actuators are operable such that pivoting of either the first or the second pivoting switch actuator about its respective pivot center locks the other of the first or second pivoting switch actuators from pivoting.

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