Firearm Accessory Mount Concentric Alignment Manufacturing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing firearm scope mounts often suffer from inaccuracies due to internal stresses and distortions during manufacturing, leading to misalignment of accessory clamps and uneven clamping forces, which affect the precision of aiming devices like scopes and laser sights.
Innovation Solution
A method of manufacturing firearm accessory mounts involves securing a raw material, shaping it into accessory rings aligned along a common axis, forming apertures through these rings, and dividing them into receivers and caps while maintaining concentric alignment to reduce stress and distortion, ensuring accurate assembly and secure mounting of accessories.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If traditional manufacturing methods are used to produce accessory rings, then production is simpler and faster, but internal stresses and distortions cause misalignment and uneven clamping forces
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by performing stress relief heat treatment on the accessory rings before final assembly and alignment. This preliminary stress relief prevents subsequent distortion and misalignment during assembly, ensuring accurate concentric alignment of the rings with the firearm barrel axis without requiring complex realignment procedures later in the manufacturing process.
2Ease of manufacture
If accessory rings are manufactured separately and assembled, then production is easier, but misalignment and distortion occur during assembly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the accessory rings with the mounting base into a single integrated component that is machined as one piece from a solid block of material. This eliminates the need for separate manufacturing and assembly of the rings, thereby maintaining ease of manufacture through standardized machining processes while ensuring perfect concentric alignment and eliminating misalignment issues that would arise from assembling separate components.
3Manufacturing precision
If high precision machining is used for accessory rings, then alignment accuracy improves, but manufacturing time and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by establishing precise reference surfaces and alignment features during the initial rough machining stage, then using these pre-established references for subsequent precision operations. This preliminary setup of alignment references enables high precision machining of the accessory rings and mounting base without requiring repeated measurements and adjustments, thereby maintaining manufacturing efficiency while achieving the required alignment precision.
Data Source
AI summary
A firearm accessory mount is described herein. The firearm accessory mount is manufactured by securing a raw amount of material, shaping the raw amount of material to generate receiving structures positioned on a mounting base along a common axis, forming apertures through the receiving structures to form accessory rings along a single axis from one direction and at least substantially dividing each of the accessory rings into receivers and caps.