Firearm Rail Panel With Accessory Slots And Textured Grip
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern firearm rail systems lack a comprehensive solution for attaching accessories while providing a sturdy gripping surface, leading to gaps around mounted accessories and limited customization options for individual user needs.
Innovation Solution
A panel with slots and textured surfaces is designed to attach to firearm rail systems, allowing for the secure mounting of accessories through slots that surround the accessory, providing a continuous gripping surface and enhancing customization possibilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If accessories are mounted directly to the firearm rail system, then accessory attachment is achieved, but gaps are created around the accessory and gripping surface continuity is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The panel serves as an intermediary component between the firearm rail system and the accessory. It mounts to the rail system via slots and provides a textured gripping surface that extends around the accessory, eliminating gaps and maintaining surface continuity while securing the accessory in place.
2Ease of operation
If a textured gripping surface is provided around the rail system, then user grip is improved, but accessory mounting options are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The panel combines multiple functions: it provides a textured gripping surface for improved user grip while simultaneously incorporating slots for mounting various accessories. This multi-functional design allows the same component to enhance both ergonomics and accessory versatility without compromise.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple accessories are mounted on the rail system, then functionality is enhanced, but gaps and uneven surfaces are created
Solution Approach 1:
The panel acts as a mediating structure that accommodates multiple accessories mounted on the rail system. Its textured surface extends around each accessory, filling gaps and creating a uniform, continuous gripping surface that maintains surface uniformity even when multiple accessories are present.
Data Source
AI summary
A panel attachable to a firearm rail including an elongated body with a top side, an opposed bottom side, a front end, and a rear end. The front end and the rear end each includes at least one aperture extending through the top side to the opposed bottom side of the elongated body. The panel also includes a gripped surface on the top side of the elongated body and a slot extending through the top side to the opposed bottom side. The slot is configured to receive a firearm accessory.