Patent ID: 7856748
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: F41A

Abstract:
1. A bipod support, adapted to support a firearm, comprising: a leg support having a top, bottom, a front face, a rear face and two sides; two legs, each of said legs including a support end and a surface end, said support end including a pin hole; two pins; said leg support including two leg slots, each of said leg slots for receiving said support end of one of said two legs, each of said leg slots having an opening at said bottom of said leg support as an entrance to each of said leg slots by said support end of said legs, said leg support including two pin holes on said front face and two pin holes on said rear face, said pin holes of said front face aligned with said pin holes of said rear face such that there are two pairs of pin holes to receive said two pins, one of said pair of said pin holes aligned over one of said leg slots and the other of said pair of said pin holes aligned over the other of said leg slots, said support ends of said legs attached to said leg support by placing each of said support ends in one of said leg slots and inserting one of said pins into said pin holes of said leg support and said support end, each of said leg slots wide enough to allow rotation of said support end of legs about said pins; a spring between each of said leg slots and each of said support ends of said legs to bias each leg in an outward position from said leg support; a ball adapted to be mounted to a rifle stock, said ball having a diameter, said ball being spherical in shape with two sphere portions of said diameter removed to form two flat entrance sides on said ball, said entrance sides parallel to each other; a ball mount receiver to receive said ball, said ball mount receiver including an entrance slot and a ball retention area, said entrance slot leading to said ball retention area, said entrance slot having two parallel slot sides that form said entrance slot, said entrance slot being smaller between said two slot sides than that of said diameter of said ball, such that said ball can only enter and exit said entrance slot when said entrance sides are parallel with said two slot sides, said ball retention area being large enough to receive said diameter of said ball from said entrance slot and allowing said leg support to rotate about said ball when said ball is in said ball retention area; and wherein said ball includes a shaft adapted to be attached to the rifle stock; wherein said top of said leg support includes a shaft opening above said ball mount receiver to allow passage of said shaft of said ball to pass outward from said top of said leg support; wherein said two parallel slot sides of said entrance slot are on said rear face of said leg support; wherein said two parallel slot sides of said entrance slot extend thru said top of said leg support such that there is an opening between said top of said leg support and said rear face of said leg support which continues to said shaft opening on said top of said leg support to allow said rear face of said leg support to be folded back against the rifle stock; and wherein said leg support includes a wall between said shaft opening and said front face of said leg support which comes in contact with said shaft when said leg support is used to support the rifle stock.