Patent ID: 8567106

Claim:
A retractable bipod assembly comprising: a pair of leg assemblies adapted to support a firearm dining shooting thereof; a housing adapted to be secured to a front portion of the firearm for pivotally mounting the leg assemblies between a folded up, storage position and folded down, support position; and a coupling arrangement defined by gear teeth between the leg assemblies wherein the leg assemblies are in direct driving engagement and in continuous contact with one another enabling pivotal movement of one of the leg assemblies to automatically cause simultaneous pivot movement of the other of the leg assemblies, wherein the housing includes a pair of vertically extending side walls, each of the side walls being formed with an outwardly facing leg-receiving pocket defined by a first wall extending inwardly and downwardly from he side wall and connected to a second wall extending downwardly and outwardly therefrom, the first walls converging towards each other and the second walls diverging from each other, the pockets holding the leg assemblies at angular orientations relative to the side walls, the leg assemblies having lower portions engageable and disengageable with the first walls between the folded up, storage position, and the folded down, support position, and the gear teeth lying adjacent the second walls.