"Section 8" holder, the ultimate retention device

• US 20070228754A1
• Filed: 03/28/2006
• Published: 10/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Joseph Rankin
• Original Assignee: Joseph Rankin
• Inventors: Rankin, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US11/390,842
• Publication Number:
  US 20070228754A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 294/137
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2005/008 Hand articles fastened to the wrist or to the arm or to the leg
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0566 Tubular, rod-shaped articles, e.g. batons
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/00 Holders or carriers for hand articles; Holders or carriers for use while travelling or camping

Abstract

The purpose of the invention is to specifically address the problem of maintaining control and retention of a tactical device such as a flashlight while allowing use of the retention hand by rotating the flashlight to the backside of the hand and gaining use of the palm of the same hand for normal gripping. The invention accomplishes this by the virtue of the design of a flexible figure “8” shape that has 2 holes incorporated into it. The one hole is sized so that the most common tactical flashlight body diameters will be a tight friction fit between it and the figure “8”. The other hole accepts a finger “sizing ring”. The sizing ring is easily replaceable and is also a friction fit into the figure “8”. The proper sizing ring will allow the device to rotate freely on a digit of the hand, typically the index finger. The flashlight is held firmly and allowed to rotate and change positions to go from a palm gripped position to a position on the back of the hand. With a flip of the wrist, the flashlight goes from the back of the hand to the gripping position while being firmly retained and in a predictable position, unlike a lanyard or unattached flashlight. Once the invention is flipped to the palm position, the flashlight is easily held in the palm of the hand in any of the accepted methods of tactical training such as the hand over hand position or the hand alongside the firearm position. If the invention is flipped the opposite direction, it will flex back to its neutral flat state and rest on the backside of the hand holding the invention, and use of the open hand is available.

Claims

1. ) A flexible retention device with multiple adjustable openings to grip objects inserted into the openings to comprise an adjustable retention system that will attach an object or an adjustable rigid insert to the device and the retention device will rotate on or about a digit of the hand allowing controlled forced flexibility from a normal resting state to a useful state of said device and the device returning to a normal resting state when forces are removed and while maintaining relative positions of the of the inserted objects.

2. ) A flexible gripping device in claim 1 wherein the device is able to be flexed and said device resilient properties will return said device to its normal resting state when the flexing forces are removed.

3. ) A gripping device in claim 1 wherein the device has at least 2 openings.

4. ) A gripping device in claim 1 wherein the device is a flexible molded material sized to apply a friction fit to the inserted objects.

5. ) A gripping device in claim 1 wherein an opening is designed to accept a rigid insert to effectively control the inside openings of the device.

6. ) A gripping device in claim 1 will expand and hold the rigid insert by friction.

7. ) A gripping device in claim 1 will hold rigid insert by mechanical design.

8. ) A gripping device in claim 1 wherein the device can be slid over an object and the friction produced from the object and the device will maintain relative fore and aft and relative rotational position to each other.

9. ) A gripping device in claim 1 wherein the material choice and the physical dimensions can determine the controlled flexibility of the device in linear, rotational, and bending modes.

10. ) A gripping device in claim 1 wherein the device can be deflected with applied force to allow the axis centerlines of the objects to move away from the normal objects axis positions.

11. ) A gripping device in claim 1 wherein the device will return to its natural position and allow the axis centerlines of the objects to move back to their normal axis positions.

12. ) A gripping device in claim 1 wherein the insert can be of a material to allow friction between the insert and the device and also allow movement or sliding of another object placed inside the gripped insert

13. ) A gripping device in claim 1 wherein if the insert is placed over a digit of the hand and an object is placed into the other opening, the object can be rotated about the centerline of the digit of the hand going from a palm position to a back of hand position allowing free movement of all the digits of the hand while retaining the device and object.

14. ) A gripping device in claim 1 wherein the gripping force applied with the hand will deform the flexible device to allow it to conform to the desired use and when said force is released, the flexible device will return to the normal resting state.

15. ) A gripping device in claim 1 wherein the device is used to hold a tactical flashlight that is predictably retained and able to be rotated about a digit of the hand into useful tactical operating positions