Patent ID: 8496212
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: F16M,F41A

Abstract:
1. A bipod assembly comprising: (a) a clamp body mounted on first and second bipod legs for supporting a firearm, said first and second bipod legs having a proximal end hingedly attached to said clamp body; (b) said first and second bipod legs each having a distal end opposing said proximal end, wherein said distal end carries an end effecter; (c) said end effecter comprising a central substantially planar six-sided polygon central segment of a truncated triangle shape having alternating short and long sides from which depend first, second and third radially spaced triangular claw members; (d) said short sides defining truncated tips; (e) said first, second and third claw members depending downwardly respectively from said short sides at a selected angle substantially 80 degrees from horizontal when said central segment is in a substantially horizontal orientation to define a cup-shaped three pointed surface engaging support configured to grasp and laterally compress, but not sink into a terrain surface; (f) said claw members defining a pair of triangular angularly disposed wall segments having abutting edges depending from said short sides and terminating in a point; and (g) said abutting edges of each claw member spaced outwardly from said claw member beyond an imaginary vertical plane intersecting said short side.