Modular Carrier With Adjustable Retention For Firearm Accessories
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional carriers for firearms and accessories, such as magazines, face challenges in accommodating varying sizes and shapes, offering durability, and providing versatile carry and attachment configurations, often relying on less-rigid materials like fabric that limit performance and options.
Innovation Solution
A modular carrier system comprising pivotally and adjustably attached shell components with interchangeable clips and a locking plate, allowing for customizable retention and mounting configurations, including a storage compartment and removable backer for comfort, formed through injection molding for enhanced durability and quality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If fabric and less-rigid pouches are used to accommodate various sizes and shapes, then versatility is improved, but durability and structural stability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The carrier is divided into a body portion and a magazine portion that can be separately assembled and configured. The body portion contains retention members that can be adjusted independently, allowing the carrier to accommodate different magazine sizes while maintaining structural integrity through the segmented design
Solution Approach 2:
The carrier body is designed with universal retention members that can accommodate multiple magazine sizes and configurations. The adjustable retention system allows a single carrier body to serve multiple functions for different firearm accessories while maintaining durability through the rigid polymer construction
2Strength
If rigid structures are used to provide stability and durability, then strength is improved, but adaptability to various sizes and shapes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The retention members are designed to be adjustable within the rigid carrier body, allowing dynamic reconfiguration of the internal space. This enables the rigid structure to adapt to different magazine sizes and shapes while maintaining the overall structural stability and durability of the carrier
3Ease of manufacture
If fabric pouches are used for carrying accessories, then ease of manufacture is improved, but reliability and retention security deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The fabric retention system is replaced with a mechanical retention system using rigid retention members with adjustable positions and secure engagement features. This substitution provides reliable retention security while the injection molding process maintains ease of manufacture through automated production
4Adaptability or versatility
If interchangeable components are added to provide versatility, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple retention members are integrated into a single carrier body, allowing various mounting configurations and retention options without requiring separate components. This merging approach provides customizable retention and versatility while simplifying the overall device structure and reducing the number of parts
Data Source
AI summary
Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a modular carrier for a tactical implement or for an accessory to a weapon, tool, or other implement, for example. The modular carrier comprises first and second shell components to at least partially encase the accessory. The first and second shell components are adjustably attached using at least one attachment member on each of the first and second shell components, to form an enclosure. At least one adjustable retention component may be used with the attachment members to adjust the retention of the enclosure.