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US 8,397,414 · App. 13/066,800 · Granted Mar 19, 2013

Buttstock pre-adjustment block

Inventor: Ian Thomas Walters (Fayetteville, AR)
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Patent No.
US 8,397,414
App. No.
13/066,800
Granted
Mar 19, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention presented here is an add-in part designed for the M4 and similar commercial AR-15 rifle variants or any other weapon using an adjustable multi position receiver extension based on the M4 pattern. Its purpose is to be installed in the longitudinal adjustment slot of the receiver extension tube limiting the buttstock's maximum extension travel to a preselected position.

Claims (15)

1. A structural device installed into the longitudinal slot of an M4 type receiver extension prior to the installation of a telescoping carbine buttstock, said M4 type receiver extension comprising:

A cylindrical body predominantly inline with a bore axis of a firearm and,

A lower rectangular portion at a bottom center position of the cylindrical body with a longitudinal slot that contains a plurality of locking detent holes in the underside of it wherein said longitudinal slot is a known depth from the surface of the lower rectangular portion and the locking detent holes are a known depth from the surface of the longitudinal slot designed for the receiving of a telescoping buttstock's positional locking pin wherein the longitudinal slot allows the bin and buttstock to slide fore and aft and the locking detent holes arrest the buttstock via its positional locking pin in a desired position;

Said structural device comprising a body with an upper portion of a cylindrical shape and a lower portion of a rectangular shape wherein the upper portion inserts axially into a locking detent hole and the lower portion occupies space between locking detent holes in the longitudinal slot of an M4 type receiver extension.

2. A structural device installed into the longitudinal slot of an M4 type receiver extension prior to the installation of a telescoping carbine buttstock, said M4 type receiver extension comprising:

A cylindrical body predominantly inline with a bore axis of a firearm and,

A lower rectangular portion at a bottom center position of the cylindrical body with a longitudinal slot that contains a plurality of locking detent holes in the underside of it wherein said longitudinal slot is a known depth from the surface of the lower rectangular portion and the locking detent holes are a known depth from the surface of the longitudinal slot designed for the receiving of a telescoping buttstock's positional locking pin wherein the longitudinal slot allows the bin and buttstock to slide fore and aft and the locking detent holes arrest the buttstock via its positional locking pin in a desired position;

Said structural device comprising a rectangular body that inserts into the longitudinal slot of an M4 type receiver extension and occupies the space between locking detent holes in the longitudinal slot of an M4 type receiver extension.

3. A structural device installed into the longitudinal slot of an M4 type receiver extension prior to the installation of a telescoping carbine buttstock, said M4 type receiver extension comprising:

A cylindrical body predominantly inline with a bore axis of a firearm and,

A lower rectangular portion at a bottom center position of the cylindrical body with a longitudinal slot that contains a plurality of locking detent holes in the underside of it wherein said longitudinal slot is a known depth from the surface of the lower rectangular portion and the locking detent holes are a known depth from the surface of the longitudinal slot designed for the receiving of a telescoping buttstock's positional locking pin wherein the longitudinal slot allows the bin and buttstock to slide fore and aft and the locking detent holes arrest the buttstock via its positional locking pin in a desired position;

Said structural device comprising a cylindrical body wherein the upper half inserts axially into a locking detent hole and the lower half extends into the longitudinal slot of an M4 type receiver extension.

4. Device from claim 1 that when installed prior to a telescoping buttstock prevents the buttstock's positional locking pin from engaging undesired locking detent holes in an M4 type receiver extension during its normal use of extending from a more collapsed position.

5. Device from claim 2 that when installed prior to a telescoping buttstock prevents the buttstock's positional locking pin from engaging undesired locking detent holes in an M4 type receiver extension during its normal use of extending from a more collapsed position.

6. Device from claim 3 that when installed prior to a telescoping buttstock prevents the buttstock's positional locking pin from engaging undesired locking detent holes in an M4 type receiver extension during its normal use of extending from a more collapsed position.

Continuity (2)
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