Patent ID: 8607490
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: F41C

Abstract:
1. A quick release, free floating, multi-piece forward hand guard assembly for a rifle having a receiver and a barrel, said hand guard assembly comprising: an inner barrel nut adapted to be affixed to a front of the receiver of the rifle, said inner barrel nut defining two circumferential grooves about a periphery thereof and axially spaced one from the other; an outer barrel nut telescopically received over said inner barrel nut and longitudinally secured thereto, said outer barrel nut further including two set screws axially spaced in like manner to said two circumferential grooves, and each said set screw engaging one of said inner barrel nut circumferential grooves, causing said outer barrel nut to be non-rotatable with respect to said inner barrel nut; a first hand guard element engaged with and extending forwardly from said outer barrel nut in a laterally stable cantilevered fashion; and a second hand guard element matingly engaged with said first hand guard element for surrounding the rifle's barrel, free floating therefrom, and attached to said first hand guard element with at least one quick release fastener.