Method of manufacturing a firearm accessory mount

• US 10,663,262 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2018
• Issued: 05/26/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WHG Properties, LLC
• Original Assignee: WHG Properties, LLC
• Inventors: Geissele, William H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Freeman, Joshua E
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cochran, Bridget A
• Application Number:
  US16/224,919
• Publication Number:
  US 20190195600A1
• Time in Patent Office: 524 Days
• Field of Search: 42124
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/387 Mounting telescopic sights on smallarms
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/393 Mounting telescopic sights on ordnance; Transmission of sight movements to the associated gun
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 11/003 Mountings with a dove tail element, e.g. "Picatinny rail systems"
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 11/004 Mountings with clamping means on the device embracing at least a part of the firearm, e.g. the receiver or a dustcover F41G11/003 takes precedence

Abstract

A firearm accessory mount is described herein. The firearm accessory mount is manufactured by securing a raw amount of material, shaping the raw amount of material to generate receiving structures positioned on a mounting base along a common axis, forming apertures through the receiving structures to form accessory rings along a single axis from one direction and at least substantially dividing each of the accessory rings into receivers and caps.

Claims

1. A method of manufacturing a firearm accessory mount, comprising:

securing a raw amount of material;

shaping the raw amount of material to generate receiving structures integrally formed on a mounting base along a common axis;

forming apertures along the common axis through the receiving structures to form accessory rings; and

at least substantially dividing each of the accessory rings into receivers and caps.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the apertures are formed in a single operation from one direction.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least substantially dividing comprises leaving a section of undivided material between the receivers and the caps of each accessory ring, wherein the section of undivided material retains the caps connected to the receivers, and wherein the section of undivided material is manually breakable to allow the caps to be disconnected from the receivers.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising separating the sections of undivided material to separate the caps from the receivers.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising buffing the separated receivers and caps to remove any remaining portions of the sections of undivided material.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least some of the raw amount of material remains secured throughout the shaping, forming, and dividing operations.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein dividing is performed with a dividing tool, and wherein the dividing tool divides the accessory rings along a common plane so that the receivers are substantially identical and the caps are substantially identical.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the formed accessory rings are concentric along the common axis.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising completing the forming operation after the shaping operation.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the shaping is performed using a shaping tool, wherein the forming is performed using a forming tool, and wherein the dividing is performed using a dividing tool.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the shaping tool is a CNC machine, wherein the forming tool is a boring bit, and wherein the dividing tool is a cutting saw.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein:

shaping the raw amount of material to generate receiving structures comprises shaping a proximal receiving structure and shaping a distal receiving structure while the proximal and distal receiving structures are part of the raw amount of material;

forming apertures through the receiving structures includes forming apertures within the proximal receiving structure and distal receiving structure along the common axis from a single direction; and

at least substantially dividing each of the accessory rings includes creating a proximal dividing channel and a distal dividing channel that are co-planar.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the proximal and distal apertures are formed in a single operation.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the proximal and distal apertures are concentric about the common axis.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the divided proximal and distal receiving structures comprise a lower base and an upper cap, the dividing channel substantially extending between the lower base and the upper cap.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the proximal lower base and the distal lower base are rigidly secured with respect to each other throughout the shaping, forming and creating operations.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising separating the proximal upper cap from the proximal lower base, and separating the distal upper cap from the distal lower base.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the shaping operation occurs before the forming operation, and the forming operation occurs before the creating operation.