Patent ID: 7591098
Filing Date: 2009-09-22
Classification: F41G

Abstract:
1. An accessory device for a firearm carrying a longitudinal rail including a transverse slot, the accessory device comprising: a housing; elongate members secured to said housing, said elongate members complementing the rail for enabling said housing to be retainably slid along the rail; a generally U-shaped plate including two resilient legs longitudinally extending from a base pivotally secured to said housing about a transverse axis, each of said legs having a free end and an upstanding protuberance in the vicinity of said free end, said legs transversely urgable for resiliently displacing the free ends toward one another; and said housing adapted for releasably retaining said free ends in a first vertical position with the upstanding protuberances non-receivable in the slot when said housing is applied to said rail with said free ends resiliently displaced toward one another and said plate downwardly pivoted, said housing adapted for supporting said free ends in a second vertical position with said upstanding protuberances receivable in the slot.