Patent ID: 8707604

Claim:
A bipod foregrip comprising: a longitudinally extending mounting base with an upwardly opening dovetail shaped groove in the upper surface constructed to slidingly engage a dovetail mounting rail of a firearm and locking structure designed to hold the mounting base in a selected place along a dovetail mounting rail; a fixed gripping portion affixed to the base adjacent the rear end of base; a movable gripping portion having a first end pivotally attached adjacent a lower extremity of the fixed gripping portion and an opposed end, the movable gripping portion being pivotal between a stored orientation and an extended orientation, the opposed end being positioned in abutting engagement with a lower surface of the mounting base in the stored orientation; the movable gripping portion including two legs forming the movable gripping portion in the stored orientation and extending angularly outwardly and downwardly into a bipod rest in the extended orientation, and a manually operable locking mechanism designed to releasably lock the movable gripping portion in either one of the stored orientation or the extended orientation; and wherein the movable gripping portion pivotally attached to the fixed gripping portion includes a pivotal mounting element pivotally attached to the fixed gripping portion to define a first pivotal axis extending transversely to the longitudinal direction of the mounting base and pivotally attached to the movable gripping portion to define a second pivotal axis extending in a direction perpendicular to the first pivotal axis.