Stock for a firearm

• US 8,296,986 B1
• Filed: 05/29/2012
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLC (Vista Outdoor Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Alliant Techsystems Incorporated (Northrop Grumman Corporation)
• Inventors: Cook, Clifton L., Gregory, Thomas M., Kincaid, Robert A., Yeates, Eric M., Todd, Birten L., Cauble, Gary, Michaels, Chris, Bentley, James K., Sparing, Kurtis
• Primary Examiner(s): HAYES, BRET C
• Application Number:
  US13/482,041
• Time in Patent Office: 154 Days
• Field of Search: 42/710.1, 42/74
• US Class Current: 42/71.01
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 25/10 Spring-operated systems
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 23/06 Stocks or firearm frames specially adapted for recoil reduction
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 23/16 Forestocks; Handgrips; Hand guards pump-action guns F41C7/02

Abstract

A firearm stock having an internal cavity, a buttplate assembly and an engaging lever. The buttplate assembly has a base member including a locking leg. The locking leg includes a locking notch and the base member includes an attachment leg. The attachment leg includes an attachment aperture. The buttplate assembly is pivotally coupled, via an attachment pin, to a rear portion of the stock. The engaging lever is positioned through an aperture in an upper portion of the stock and comprises a body extending from a head to a locking tab. The body also includes a release notch in a central portion. The body is positioned within the locking notch when the buttplate assembly is in a closed position and the body is removed from the locking notch when the engaging lever is rotated into a release position.

Claims

1. A stock for a firearm, comprising:

a stock having an internal cavity;

a buttplate assembly having a base member, wherein the base member includes a locking leg extending from the base member, wherein the locking leg includes a locking notch formed in a portion of the locking leg, and wherein the base member includes an attachment leg extending from the base member, wherein the attachment leg is substantially L-shaped and includes an attachment aperture formed in a portion of the attachment leg;

wherein the buttplate assembly is pivotably coupled, via interaction of an attachment pin and the attachment aperture, to a rear portion of the stock;

wherein the attachment leg is shaped such that the buttplate assembly can be pivoted from a closed position to an open position relative to the stock; and

an engaging lever positioned through an engaging lever aperture formed through an upper portion of the stock, wherein the engaging lever comprises a body that extends from a head to a locking tab, wherein a release notch is formed in a central portion of the body, such that when the buttplate assembly is in a closed position and the engaging lever is in a locking position, the body is positioned within the locking notch of the locking leg and when the engaging lever is rotated into a release position the body is removed from the locking notch.

2. The stock of claim 1, wherein the engaging lever aperture includes a bore hole that extends through the stock and a countersunk hole formed into the surface of the stock to provide receptacles for the head and locking tab of the engaging lever.

3. The stock of claim 1, wherein the locking notch formed in a top portion of the locking leg.

4. The stock of claim 1, wherein said locking notch formed in a bottom portion of the locking leg.

5. The stock of claim 1, further comprising an O-ring positioned between the base member and the stock.