Patent Publication Number: US-11035648-B2

Title: Quick-release adapter

Description:
TECHNICAL FIELD 
     The present disclosure relates to the technical field of security equipment, and in particular to a quick-release adapter. 
     BACKGROUND 
     An important law enforcement manner of the policeman and other security personnel is to wear a gun, so it is very important to place the gun. The modern holster basically should be convenient to carry, not affect the action of the user, and be simply, conveniently and quickly putted on and off. 
     The holster mostly designs a mounting guide rail for holster accessories. Using a connector of the guide rail for the holster accessories, the gun can be easily putted in and taken out of the holster along the guide rail. However, the existing holster generally is common leather or polystyrene and is designed too simply so as to only protect the gun, but not protect a switch of the gun, and when putting on the holster, the user cannot randomly move. When a user puts on a holster with a gun, such holster may affect the action of the user. Moreover, as the holster is a functional part, the user cannot take out and put in the gun by any angles unless following the guide rail of the holster, which is inconvenient to use. Moreover, the user needs to load the gun by double hands after taking out the gun, which is not beneficial to quick use. 
     Therefore, it is an emergent technical problem how to provide a functional part mounting device which can be conveniently and quickly mounted and detached and has high stability and safety in the prior art. 
     SUMMARY 
     An objective of the present disclosure is to provide a quick-release adapter to solve the technical problem that it is lack of a functional part mounting device which can be conveniently and quickly mounted and detached and has high stability and safety in the prior art. 
     To achieve the objective above, the present disclosure provides a quick-release adapter, comprising a quick-release part and a functional part. 
     The quick-release part comprises a fixing part and a regulating part. The regulating part is engaged with or detached and separated from the fixing part through a chute. 
     The U-shaped chute is formed in the fixing part and located in three sides of a chute surface of the fixing part to form a U-shaped structure. 
     The regulating part slides into the fixing part along the chute to form an engaged quick-release part. 
     The functional part is fixed to a functional mounting surface of the regulating part through a rotating mechanism. The functional part rotates around the rotating mechanism. Further, the rotating mechanism comprises rotation holes, a regulating rod, a rotation, fixing disc and a rotation limiting disc. The regulating rod passes through the rotation holes of the regulating part and the functional part to fasten the regulating part and the functional part. The functional part is limited through the matching of the rotation limiting disc on the functional part and the rotation fixing disc on the regulating part. 
     Optionally, the rotation fixing disc and the rotation limiting disc are gears with protruded teeth. A groove is arranged between every two adjacent protruded teeth. The groove and the protruded teeth are matched with each other. After the regulating rod is loosened, the protruded teeth of the rotation limiting disc are loosened from the grooves of the rotation fixing disc to regulate the position of the rotation limiting disc. 
     Optionally, the rotation fixing disc is equipped with at least two limiting holes in, the periphery of the rotation hole. The rotation limiting disc is equipped with limiting bulges at positions corresponding to the limiting holes. The limiting bulges match with the limiting holes. Loosening the regulating rod, the limiting bulges of the rotation limiting disc are loosened from the limiting holes of the rotation fixing disc to regulate the position of the rotation limiting disc. 
     Optionally, an arc rotation slot is formed in the rotating mechanism on the regulating part. The functional part is engaged in the arc rotation slot. 
     Optionally, a rotation control button and a rotation control rod are arranged on the rotating mechanism on the regulating part. The rotation control rod is connected with the rotating mechanism on the regulating part to drive a rotary plate to rotate. The rotation control button is connected with the rotation control rod and controls the rotation control rod to move or stop. 
     Optionally, the quick-release adapter further comprises a supporting part. The supporting part comprises a quick-release part supporting surface and a quick-release part limiting protruded disc. The quick-release part limiting protruded disc and the quick-release part supporting surface form a step structure. The quick-release part limiting protruded disc is attached with the fixing part to fix the fixing part to the supporting part. 
     Optionally, the fixing part comprises a latching groove located in one side of the U-shaped structure. 
     The regulating part comprises a latch. The latch is located at a position, corresponding to the latching groove, of a side of the regulating part. 
     Optionally, the latch is elastic and has a slope towards a bottom side of a U-shaped groove. After the latch slides into the latching groove, a latching side face of the latch relative to the slope is engaged with the latching groove. After the latch is pressed down, the latching side face slides out of the latching groove such that the engagement of the fixing part and the regulating part is released. 
     The quick-release adapter of the present disclosure achieves the following beneficial effects: 
     (1) According to the quick-release adapter of the present disclosure, the fixing part is engaged with and detached from the regulating part through the chute such that the functional part fixed to the regulating part can be quickly and stably mounted at the fixing part to achieve quick mounting and detachment of the functional part. The fixing part and the regulating part can be detached and assembled to achieve a random replacement function of different functional parts on a wearable belt and to improve the mounting and carrying flexibility of the functional part. 
     (2) According to the quick-release adapter of the present disclosure, the functional part is detachably mounted at a fixing part of the supporting part through the supporting part and the quick-release part. The functional part can be quickly and safely mounted and detached through the quick-release part. A user can mount and detach the functional part by multiple angles. Therefore, the user can conveniently use the functional part, and the safety and the stability of the functional part during mounting and detaching are improved. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       To describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure or in the prior art more clearly, the following briefly describes the accompanying drawings required for describing the embodiments or the prior art. Apparently, the accompanying drawings in the following description show some embodiments of the present disclosure, and persons skilled in the art may still derive other drawings from these accompanying drawings. 
         FIG. 1  is a schematic structural diagram of a quick-release adapter in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 2  is a schematic structural diagram of a quick-release part of a quick-release adapter in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 3  is a schematic diagram showing a separated structure of a quick-release part of a quick-release adapter in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 4  is a schematic diagram showing an internal structure of a regulating part of a quick-release adapter in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 5  is a schematic diagram showing a side structure of a regulating part of a quick-release adapter in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 6  is a schematic structural diagram of a rotation fixing disc of another quick-release adapter in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 7  is a schematic structural diagram of an optional quick-release adapter in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 8  is a schematic structural diagram of a supporting part of an optional quick-release adapter in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 9  is a schematic structural diagram of a quick-release part of an optional quick-release adapter in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 10  is a schematic diagram showing an internal structure of a regulating part of a quick-release adapter in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 11  is a schematic diagram showing another internal structure of a regulating part of a quick-release adapter in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 12  is a schematic structural diagram of yet another quick-release adapter in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 13  is a schematic structural diagram when functional parts are detached from quick-release adapters on a wearable belt in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 14  is a schematic structural diagram when quick-release adapters are installed on a wearable belt in an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
     
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS 
     The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application are clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings of the embodiments of the present application. Apparently, the described embodiments are some rather than all of the embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments obtained by persons skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present disclosure without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure. 
     Embodiment 1 
     As shown in  FIG. 1  to  FIG. 5 ,  FIG. 1  is a schematic structural diagram of a quick-release adapter in an embodiment;  FIG. 2  is a schematic structural diagram of a quick-release part of a quick-release adapter in an embodiment;  FIG. 3  is a schematic diagram showing a separated structure of a quick-release part of a quick-release adapter in an embodiment;  FIG. 4  is a schematic diagram showing a structure of a regulating part of a quick-release adapter in an embodiment;  FIG. 5  is a schematic diagram showing a side structure of a regulating part of a quick-release adapter in an embodiment. A quick-release adapter comprises a quick-release part  101  and a functional part  102 . 
     The quick-release part  101  comprises a fixing part  111  and a regulating part  112 . The regulating part  112  is engaged with or detached and separated from the fixing part  111  through a chute  113 . 
     The fixing part  111  comprises the chute  113  and a latching groove  114 . The chute  113  is U-shaped and located in three sides of a chute surface of the fixing part to form a U-shaped structure. The U-shaped structure comprises side slots in two sides and a bottom side slot in a bottom side. The latching groove  114  is located in one side of the U-shaped structure and is used for matching with a latch of the regulating part to limit the regulating part to the interior of the fixing part so as to prevent the regulating part from dropping off. 
     The regulating part  112  comprises a fixing part attaching surface  115 , a functional part mounting surface  116  and a latch  117 . The functional part mounting surface  116  and the fixing part attaching surface  115  are arranged back to back. The latch  117  is located in a position, corresponding to the latching groove, of a side of the regulating part. The regulating part slides into the fixing part along the chute to form an engaged quick-release part. The regulating part slides out of the fixing part along the chute to achieve detachment of the quick-release part. 
     The functional part  102  is fixed to the functional mounting surface  116  of the regulating part through a rotating mechanism. The functional part rotates around the rotating mechanism. Optionally, the functional part, may be a holster or accessories fitting for the quick-release part, such as a flashlight pouch, a truncheon pouch, a handcuff pouch, an expandable baton pouch, a pepper spray pouch and the like. 
     The regulating part of the quick-release part slides into the chute of the fixing part to achieve its quick wearing function, meanwhile, the latch is engaged in the latching groove of the chute such that the regulating part cannot easily slide away the fixing part. When the regulating part needs to be detached from the functional part, the regulating part can be pulled out after the latch is pressed down so as to achieve a quick release function of the regulating part attaching with the functional part. 
     The rotating mechanism  201  comprises rotation holes  211 , a regulating rod, a rotation fixing disc  213  and a rotation limiting disc  214 . The regulating rod passes through the rotation holes  211  of the regulating part and the functional part to fasten the regulating part and the functional part. The regulating rod may be a thumbscrew which can limit the functional part through the matching of the rotation limiting disc on the functional part and the rotation fixing disc on the regulating part by regulating the fastening degree of the regulating part and the functional part to cause that the functional part cannot rotate. After the regulating rod is loosened, the matching between rotation limiting disc on the functional part and the rotation fixing disc on the regulating part is, loosened such that the functional part can rotate. Optionally, as shown in  FIG. 7  to  FIG. 9 ,  FIG. 7  is a schematic structural diagram of an optional quick-release adapter in an embodiment;  FIG. 8  is a schematic structural diagram of a supporting part of an optional quick-release adapter in an embodiment;  FIG. 9  is a schematic structural diagram of a quick-release part of an optional quick-release adapter in an embodiment. The quick-release adapter further comprises a supporting part  801  used for mounting the quick-release part  101 . The, fixing part  111  of the quick-release part and the supporting part  801  may be connected by using the rotating mechanism  201  to achieve a rotation function of the quick-release part on the supporting part. In the matching of the rotation hole  211  in the supporting part  801 , the rotation fixing disc  213 . the rotation limiting disc  214  on the fixing part  111  and the regulating rod  212 . the regulating rod (which may be the thumbscrew) passes through the rotation holes of the supporting part and the fixing part to fasten or loosen the fixing part and the supporting part. The regulating part and the functional part also adopt the same rotating mechanism. 
     In some optional embodiments, as shown in  FIG. 1  to  FIG. 4 , the functional part  102  is connected with the regulating part  112  through the rotating mechanism  201  on the functional mounting surface. The functional part  102  rotates around the rotating mechanism  201 . 
     In some optional embodiments, an arc rotation slot  217  is formed in the rotating mechanism  201  on the regulating part  112 . The functional part  102  is engaged in the arc rotation slot  217 . 
     In some optional embodiments, as shown in  FIG. 4  to  FIG. 6 ,  FIG. 6  is a schematic structural diagram of a rotation fixing disc of another quick-release adapter in embodiments of the present disclosure. The rotation fixing disc  213  and the rotation limiting disc  214  are gears with protruded teeth  501 . A groove  502  is arranged between every two adjacent protruded teeth. The groove and the protruded teeth are matched with each other. After the regulating rod is loosened, the protruded teeth of the rotation limiting disc are loosened from the grooves of the rotation fixing disc to regulate the position of the rotation limiting disc. 
     In some optional embodiments, as shown in  FIG. 8  and  FIG. 9 , the rotation fixing disc  213  is equipped with at least two, limiting holes  601  in the periphery of the rotation hole. The rotation limiting disc  214  is equipped with limiting bulges  602  at positions corresponding to the limiting holes. The limiting bulges match with the limiting holes. Loosening the regulating rod, the limiting bulges of the rotation limiting disc are loosened from the limiting holes of the rotation fixing disc to regulate the position of the rotation limiting disc. 
     In some optional embodiments, as shown in  FIG. 10  and  FIG. 11 ,  FIG. 10  is a schematic diagram showing an internal structure of a regulating part of a quick-release adapter in embodiments of the present disclosure.  FIG. 11  is a schematic diagram showing another internal structure of a regulating part of a quick-release adapter in embodiments of the present disclosure. A rotation control button  215  and a rotation control rod  216  are arranged on the rotating mechanism  201  on the regulating part  102 . The rotating mechanism on the regulating part is a rotary plate. The rotation control rod  216  is connected with the rotary plate to drive the rotary plate to rotate. The rotation control button  215  is connected with the rotation control rod and controls the rotation control rod to move or stop. Optionally, a main rotary gear is mounted at the center of the rotary plate, a plurality of shift grooves are circumferentially arranged in the main rotary gear, and the rotation control rod is provided with a shift hook matching with the shift grooves. Through the matching of the shift hook and the different shift grooves, the angle regulation of the holster can be achieved, and a proper angle of the functional part is to be regulated. Optionally, the latch  117  and the rotation control button  215  can be connected with the regulating part or the rotating mechanism through springs  13 . 
     In some optional embodiments, as shown in  FIG. 12 ,  FIG. 12  is a schematic structural diagram of yet another quick-release adapter in embodiments of the present disclosure. The quick-release adapter further comprises a supporting part  801 . The supporting part comprises a quick-release part supporting surface  811  and a quick-release part limiting protruded disc  812 . The quick-release part limiting protruded disc  812  and the quick-release part supporting surface  811  form a step structure. The quick-release part limiting protruded disc is attached with the fixing part to fix the fixing part to the supporting part. Optionally, the fixing part can be fixed to the supporting part through screws. The functional part can also be fixed to the main rotary gear of the regulating part through screws. The supporting part may be a waist protection plate which can be putted on the waist of a user such that the user can conveniently carry it. 
     In some optional embodiments, as shown in  FIG. 13  and  FIG. 14 ,  FIG. 13  is a schematic structural diagram when functional parts are detached from quick-release adapters on a wearable belt in embodiments of the present disclosure.  FIG. 14  is a schematic structural diagram when quick-release adapters are mounted on a wearable belt in embodiments of the present disclosure. The multiple quick-release adapters are mounted on a wearable belt  901  through the supporting parts. The positions of the functional parts of the different quick-release adapters can further be exchanged without detaching the supporting parts and the fixing parts, thereby greatly improving the use convenience. 
     Although the preferred embodiments of the present disclosure have been described, persons skilled in the art can make additional changes and modifications to these embodiments once they learn the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, the appended claims are intended to be interpreted as including the preferred embodiments and all changes and modifications that fall within the scope of the present disclosure. Obviously, persons skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations to the present disclosure without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. In this way, if these modifications and variations of the present disclosure belong to the scope of the claims of the present disclosure and its equivalent technology, the present disclosure is intended to include these modifications and variations.