Patent ID: 8904694

Claim:
A debris cover for a weapon magazine well comprising: a parallelepiped housing having a front wall, two identical side walls, a rear wall, an upper perimeter, and a lower perimeter, each wall defining a continuous outer perimeter and a continuous inner perimeter of the housing, the upper perimeter defining an upper opening wide enough to encompass the magazine well of a firearm, the lower perimeter defining a lower opening wide enough to receive a magazine therethrough, wherein the housing is configured to engage the magazine well of the firearm; a trigger guard aperture disposed on the rear wall proximal the upper perimeter; a retaining band continuously disposed around the outer perimeter proximal the upper perimeter, the retaining band having a fastening mechanism proximal the trigger guard aperture, the fastening mechanism configured to removably securing the debris cover to the magazine well of the firearm; a plurality of spring hinges disposed along the inner perimeter of the housing proximal the lower perimeter; and a plurality of door panels having a surface with a low coefficient of friction, the door panels fixedly pivotally attached to and in operational communication with the spring hinges, the door panels having a collective surface area sufficient to span the lower opening, each spring hinge configured to bias the door panels towards a flush registered alignment closing the lower opening, the spring hinges configured to alternately allow the door panels to fold in and rest proximal the inner perimeter of the housing upon insertion of the magazine through the lower opening of the housing.