Clamp for retail display of extra firearm barrel

• US 7,797,872 B1
• Filed: 11/07/2007
• Issued: 09/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: O.F. Mossberg & Sons Incorporated (Mossberg Corporation, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: O.F. Mossberg & Sons Incorporated (Mossberg Corporation, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lynch, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): JOHNSON, STEPHEN
• Application Number:
  US11/936,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20100236123A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,049 Days
• Field of Search: 42/77, 211/64
• US Class Current: 42/77
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 21/08 Barrel junctions
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 23/18 Rests for supporting smallarms in non-shooting position racks for storage A47B81/00; racks in vehicles B60R7/14
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 27/00 Accessories; Details or attachments not otherwise provided for

Abstract

A display clamp, and related method, are disclosed for removably attaching a second, interchangeable barrel to a fully assembled long gun (i.e., a shotgun or rifle) for display purposes only, wherein the extra barrel'"'"'s gas cylinder or lug is suspended from the long gun'"'"'s magazine tube, and held in place by the shotgun'"'"'s/rifle'"'"'s removable magazine cap. The method and apparatus allow a retail store (or buyer) to display the firearm and extra barrel as a combination unit either vertically or horizontally oriented within display cases.

Claims

1. A method of removably attaching a second, interchangeable barrel to a magazine tube of a fully assembled long gun, wherein the method comprises:

a. mounting a display clamp on the magazine tube;

b. removably holding the clamp onto the magazine tube by a removable magazine cap;

c. slipping a gas cylinder of the second barrel onto a barrel support of the clamp; and

d. removably holding the clamp onto the second barrel by a retainer cap.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the long gun is a shotgun.

3. The method of claim 2 further including displaying the shotgun and attached second barrel as a combination unit vertically within a display case.

4. The method of claim 2 further including displaying the shotgun and attached second barrel as a combination unit horizontally within a display case.

5. A method of removably attaching a second, interchangeable barrel to a magazine tube of a fully assembled shotgun, wherein the method comprises:

a. mounting a display clamp on the magazine tube of the shotgun;

b. removably holding the clamp onto the magazine tube by a removable magazine cap;

c. slipping a gas cylinder of the second barrel onto a barrel support of the clamp;

d. removably holding the clamp onto the second barrel by a retainer cap; and

e. whereby the attached second barrel is substantially parallel to a first barrel of the assembled shotgun.