DEVICE FOR ATTACHMENT TO A PROFILED RAIL

• US 20140190061A1
• Filed: 01/17/2012
• Published: 07/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RM Equipment Incorporated a Florida corporation (R/M Equipment Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: RM Equipment Incorporated a Florida corporation (R/M Equipment Incorporated)
• Inventors: Griffin, Todd
• Granted Patent: US 9,599,431 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 42/105
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 27/00 Accessories; Details or attachments not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 27/06 Adaptations of smallarms for firing grenades, e.g. rifle grenades, or for firing riot-control ammunition; Barrel attachments therefor signal pistols F41C3/02
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 11/003 Mountings with a dove tail element, e.g. "Picatinny rail systems"

Abstract

A device for selective affixation to a profiled rail is generally provided. The device generally includes a body and a clamp assembly operatively supported thereby. The body has an upper portion characterized by first and second opposing and spaced apart sidewall segments. The first sidewall segment has a profiled rail receiving surface and the second sidewall segment has a channeled face. The clamp assembly includes a clamping block adapted for advancement toward the profiled rail receiving surface of the first sidewall segment of the upper body portion, a portion of the clamping block pivotingly received by the channeled face of the second sidewall segment of the upper body portion so as to operatively self-seat the clamping block with a profiled rail interposed between the first sidewall segment and the clamping block of the clamp assembly upon advancement thereof.

Claims

1. A device for selective affixation to a profiled rail, the device comprising:

a. a body having an upper portion characterized by a first sidewall segment and a second sidewall segment, said second sidewall segment opposite and spaced apart from said first sidewall segment, said first sidewall segment having a profiled rail receiving surface, said second sidewall segment having a channeled face; and

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b. a clamp assembly operatively supported by said upper portion of said body for clamped engagement with a received profiled rail, said clamp assembly comprising a clamping block adapted for advancement toward said profiled rail receiving surface of said first sidewall segment of said upper portion of said body, a portion of said clamping block pivotingly received by said channeled face of said second sidewall segment of said upper portion of said body so as to operatively self-seat said clamping block with a profiled rail interposed between said first sidewall segment and said clamping block of said clamp assembly upon advancement thereof.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein said clamp block is biasingly spaced apart from said channeled face of said second sidewall segment of said upper portion of said body.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein said clamp block includes a surface adapted for cooperative engagement with a profiled rail segment.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein said portion of said clamping block pivotingly received by said channeled face of said second sidewall segment of said upper portion of said body is characterized by channel engaging member for receipt by a channel of said channeled face.

5. The device of claim 1 wherein said clamp block includes a surface having upper and lower portions, said upper portion adapted for cooperative engagement with a profiled rail segment, said lower portion cooperatively engageable with said second sidewall segment of said upper portion of said body.

6. The device of claim 1 wherein said clamp block includes a surface having upper and lower portions, said upper portion adapted for cooperative engagement with a profiled rail segment, said lower portion comprising said portion of said clamping block pivotingly received by said channeled face of said second sidewall segment of said upper portion of said body.

7. The device of claim 6 wherein said portion of said clamping block pivotingly received by said channeled face of said second sidewall segment of said upper portion of said body is characterized by channel engaging member for receipt by a channel of said channeled face.

8. The device of claim 1 wherein said clamp block includes a base having a non-linear profile.

9. The device of claim 1 wherein said clamp block includes a base characterized by a taper.

10. The device of claim 1 wherein said clamp block includes a base characterized by a slope.

11. The device of claim 1 wherein said clamp block is delimited by a base extending away and upward in relation to said portion of said clamping block pivotingly received by said channeled face of said second sidewall segment of said upper portion of said body.

12. The device of claim 1 wherein said body comprises a receiver of a weapon or weapon facsimile, or a portion of said receiver.

13. The device of claim 1 wherein said body comprises a receiver of a grenade launcher or grenade launcher facsimile, or a portion of said grenade launcher.

14. The device of claim 1 wherein said body comprises an interbar.

15. The device of claim 1 wherein said body comprises an accessory article or portion thereof.

16. The device of claim 1 wherein said body comprises a platform for an accessory article, said platform having a lower portion adapted to receive an accessory article or portion thereof.

17. The device of claim 1 wherein said body comprises an interbar, a lower portion thereof configured for operative combination with a receiver of a weapon or facsimile thereof.

18. The device of claim 1 wherein said body comprises an interbar, a lower portion thereof configured for operative combination with a grenade launcher or grenade launcher facsimile, or a portion of said grenade launcher.

19. The device of claim 1 in operative combination with a supplemental device or an accessory article.

20. The device of claim 1 in operative combination with weapon or weapon facsimile.

21. The device of claim 1 in operative combination with a host weapon or weapon facsimile characterized and/or in operative combination with a supplemental weapon or supplemental weapon facsimile.

22. The device of claim 1 wherein said upper portion of said body is further characterized by a transverse rib receivable within a recoil groove of a profiled rail of a rail structure characterized by a plurality of spaced apart recoil grooves.

23. The device of claim 1 wherein said clamp assembly further comprises a shaft upon which said clamping block is advanceable, said shaft extending from said first sidewall segment.

24. The device of claim 1 wherein said clamp assembly further comprises a shaft upon which said clamping block is advanceable, said shaft extending from said first sidewall segment, said shaft receivable within a recoil groove of a profiled rail of a rail structure characterized by a plurality of spaced apart recoil grooves.

25. The device of claim 1 comprising a further clamping assembly, said upper portion of said body further characterized by third and fourth sidewall segments, as said first and said second sidewall segments respectively, the device thereby characterized by a dual clamped interface for a profiled rail delimited in part by said first and second sidewall segments and said third and fourth sidewall segments.

26. A device for selective affixation to a profiled rail, the device comprising:

a. a body having an upper portion within which a profiled rail of a rail structure is receiveable; and

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b. a clamp assembly operatively supported by said upper portion of said body, said clamp assembly characterized by an advanceable self-seating clamping block having a face comprised of upper and lower face portions, said upper face portion characterized by a profiled rail receiving segment, said lower face portion characterized by a longitudinally extending rounded protuberance, said longitudinally extending rounded protuberance delimiting a forward most extent of said face of said advanceable clamping block.

27. A clamp assembly for operatively uniting a platform of or for a weapon or weapon facsimile to a profiled rail of a rail structure in furtherance of reversibly securing the weapon or weapon facsimile to the profiled rail, the platform characterized by an upper portion comprising a first sidewall segment and a second sidewall segment, the second sidewall segment opposite and spaced apart from the first sidewall segment, the first sidewall segment having a profiled rail receiving surface, said second sidewall segment having a profiled free edge segment, the clamp assembly operatively supported by the upper portion of the platform and comprising a clamping block adapted for advancement toward the profiled free edge segment of the second sidewall segment from a biased condition with respect thereto, a lower portion of a clamping face of said clamping block pivotingly received by said profiled free edge segment of the second sidewall segment so as to self-seat said clamping block with a profiled rail interposed between the first sidewall segment and said clamping block of said clamp assembly upon advancement thereof.