Reversible Low-Profile Weapon Telescope Mount
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing weapon telescope mounts lack universality and often have high profiles, which alter the center of gravity and make guns bulky and awkward to handle, particularly for Heckler & Koch models, interfering with OEM sighting devices and compromising accuracy.
Innovation Solution
A reversible, low-profile weapon telescope mount with a longitudinal planar top support and four downwardly depending legs that clamp onto the gun's side flanges, allowing the scope to be removed without removing the mount, maintaining the gun's balance and OEM sighting functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a high-profile scope mount is used, then the scope can be securely mounted, but the gun's center of gravity is altered and the gun becomes bulky and awkward to handle
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from high-profile mounts to a low-profile design by changing the vertical dimension of the mount structure. The mount rests against the bottom of the receiver with legs extending downward, rather than upward, fundamentally altering the spatial arrangement to maintain gun balance while providing secure scope mounting.
Solution Approach 2:
The mount employs asymmetric leg configuration where legs of different lengths are used to accommodate various receiver types. The legs are positioned at asymmetric locations on the receiver, allowing the same mount design to adapt to different gun models while maintaining a low profile that preserves handling characteristics.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a universal scope mount is designed, then it can attach to multiple gun models, but it cannot accommodate all different weapon configurations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal mount design that can attach to multiple Heckler & Koch gun models (HK31, 33, 51, 53, 91, 93, 94, MP5, G3) through standardized attachment points on the receiver. The mount uses generic flange locations and receiver geometry that are common across these models, eliminating the need for model-specific mounts while maintaining secure attachment.
Solution Approach 2:
The mount incorporates adjustable components including telescoping legs and movable mounting brackets that can be reconfigured to accommodate different receiver geometries. This dynamic adjustability allows a single mount design to adapt to various gun configurations without requiring multiple specialized mounts.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a scope mount is removed and reattached frequently, then the scope can be changed between shots, but the accuracy is affected and time is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent separates the mount from the scope, creating an independent mount system that remains permanently attached to the gun while the scope can be easily attached and detached. This segmentation allows the mount to stay in place providing consistent reference points for accuracy, while the scope can be interchangeably changed without remounting the entire assembly.
4Measurement precision
If a scope mount interferes with the OEM sighting device, then the mount can be positioned for optimal scope alignment, but the original gun sights cannot be used
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the mounting function from the top of the receiver where it would interfere with OEM sights, and relocates it to the bottom of the receiver. This extraction allows the scope mount to be positioned optimally for alignment while leaving the OEM sighting devices fully accessible and functional on the top of the receiver.
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AI summary
A low profile, reversible weapon telescope mount is provided. The mount has a longitudinal planar top support having a series of ridges and recesses disposed thereupon in an alternating and parallel orientation to that of a central axis of the support. Attached to opposed peripheral side edges of the support are four downwardly depending legs. The support and legs form a channel of the scope mount that surrounds a top end of a weapon receiver, such as a rifle, such that a bottom surface of the top planar support rests upon a top surface of the receiver. Each leg has a movable guide finger supported in a vertical channel formed in each leg. Each guide finger has an inwardly extending ledge member for grabbing outwardly extending flanges of the rifle receiver. The finger is guided up and down by an pin inserted through the leg and finger when a screw, acting upon the finger is tightened or loosened. The mount can be reversed so that its front end is closer to the head of the user of the weapon while still permitting a telescope to be mounted thereupon.