Optics mount for a firearm

• US 8,726,562 B1
• Filed: 02/16/2012
• Issued: 05/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Scot Hoskisson
• Original Assignee: Scot Hoskisson
• Inventors: Hoskisson, Scot
• Primary Examiner(s): CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE
• Application Number:
  US13/398,453
• Time in Patent Office: 824 Days
• Field of Search: 421/35, 421/25, 421/48, 421/36, 421/37, 421/38, 421/24, 421/26, 421/27, 421/28
• US Class Current: 42/135
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 11/003 Mountings with a dove tail element, e.g. "Picatinny rail systems"

Abstract

An optics mount for a firearm is disclosed. The optics mount includes a laterally adjustable member and a base member. The laterally adjustable member comprises a first engaging member and a scope bracket. The base member may comprises a side rail receptor shaped to engage a side rail mount of a firearm (or another type of engaging mechanism) and a second engaging member shaped to slidably engage the first engaging member in a lateral direction of the optics mount. In one configuration, the optics mount may also be repositioned in a longitudinal direction along the optics mount.

Claims

1. An optics mount for a firearm comprising:

a laterally adjustable member comprising a first engaging member and a scope bracket, the scope bracket having a center, the center of the scope bracket being equidistant from opposite ends of the scope bracket along a lateral direction, the lateral direction comprising a first lateral direction and a second lateral direction, the first lateral direction being opposite the second lateral direction; and

a base member comprising a second engaging member and a side rail receptor shaped to slidably engage a side rail mount of a firearm, the base member having a center, the center of the base member being equidistant from opposite ends of the base member along the lateral direction, wherein the first engaging member and second engaging member are shaped and oriented to allow lateral adjustment of the laterally adjusting member relative to the base member in the first lateral direction and the second lateral direction,

the base member comprising a first side and a second side, the first side being opposite the second side along the lateral direction, the side rail receptor being disposed on the second side of the base member, the first lateral direction extending away from the first side and the second lateral direction extending away from the second side, wherein the laterally adjustable member extends away from the base member such that the center of the scope bracket is offset from the center of the base member in the second lateral direction.

2. The optics mount of claim 1, wherein the base member further comprises a plurality of engaging members arranged in a row.

3. The optics mount of claim 2, wherein the laterally adjustable member may be selectively unsecured and re-secured to one or more engaging members of the base member to enable longitudinal adjustment of the laterally adjustable member relative to the base member.

4. The optics mount of claim 3, wherein a longitudinal axis of the second engaging member extends in the lateral direction.

5. The optics mount of claim 3, wherein a longitudinal axis of the first engaging member extends in the lateral direction.