Diagonally Split Sight Mount Rings for Firearm Adjustment Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sight mounts for firearms with optically magnified sights often obscure adjustment knobs, making it necessary for shooters to change their body position to adjust settings, and they either block vertical or horizontal adjustments, or result in misalignment and increased weight when accommodating additional accessories.
Innovation Solution
A sight mount with diagonally split rings that allow clear access to adjustment knobs, integrated accessory attachment points for 45-degree mounting, and a built-in spirit level for level verification, ensuring the firearm is held correctly without tilting, with squared sides for easy visual reference.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If rings are split horizontally to attach riflescopes, then the riflescope can be easily mounted, but the attachment points obscure the horizontal adjustment knobs
Solution Approach 1:
The ring is divided into two halves that can be separately positioned and attached. The split is located at the top and bottom rather than horizontally across the middle, allowing the adjustment knobs to remain visible and accessible while still enabling easy mounting by simply placing the riflescope between the ring halves and securing them with screws.
Solution Approach 2:
The ring split is positioned asymmetrically at the top and bottom rather than horizontally across the center. This asymmetric positioning ensures that the attachment points do not interfere with the location of the adjustment knobs, allowing both mounting ease and knob accessibility to be maintained simultaneously.
2Ease of manufacture
If rings are split vertically to attach riflescopes, then the riflescope can be easily mounted, but the attachment points block the vertical adjustment knobs
Solution Approach 1:
The ring is divided into two halves that can be separately positioned and attached. The split is located at the top and bottom rather than horizontally across the middle, allowing the adjustment knobs to remain visible and accessible while still enabling easy mounting by simply placing the riflescope between the ring halves and securing them with screws.
Solution Approach 2:
The ring split is positioned asymmetrically at the top and bottom rather than horizontally across the center. This asymmetric positioning ensures that the attachment points do not interfere with the location of the adjustment knobs, allowing both mounting ease and knob accessibility to be maintained simultaneously.
3Adaptability or versatility
If accessory mounting solutions are integrated into ring halves, then accessories can be mounted, but the adjustment knobs become obscured
Solution Approach 1:
Accessory mounting points are integrated only into specific areas of the ring halves that do not interfere with the adjustment knobs. The top and bottom portions of the ring halves include threaded holes for accessory attachment, while the sides remain clear to provide unobstructed access to the adjustment knobs on the riflescope.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the riflescope position is raised above the firearm, then accessories can be mounted in front, but the centre of gravity increases and adjustable cheek rest is required
Solution Approach 1:
The sight mount provides multiple mounting positions and configurations for both the riflescope and accessories. The base plate and ring structure allow flexible positioning options that enable accessories to be mounted without necessarily raising the riflescope, maintaining a lower centre of gravity while still providing versatility for accessory attachment at various angles and positions.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables shooters to adjust and verify the firearm's alignment without changing their body position, allows for accessory mounting without part replacement, and maintains clear access to all adjustment knobs, ensuring accurate and level shooting.
Implementation Method 1
a back portion of the base plate of the sight mount is provided with an integrated spirit level so that the shooter can verify that the firearm is being held level and does not tilt to the side
Data Source
AI summary
A sight mount for firearms, consisting of a base plate (101), arranged to be fitted onto a firearm. The sight mount is fitted with integrated and split rings and two top ring halves (106,124) are arranged to attach a riflescope. The sight ring (104,111) is diagonally split (103) and has planar sides in the vertical and horizontal planes as to make visible the visible the adjustment knobs of the riflescope when in a firing position and to visualize parallel reference lines in the environment, thus providing a subconscious perception of the weapons vertical alignment.