Height-Adjustable and Foldable Gun Rest

Abstract

The invention is a height adjustable gun rest that can be attached, and carried folded, on a rifle's fore-end. Known gun rests are in particular unsuitable on snow, and therefore unsuitable for grouse top-hunting for instance. Loud or awkward folding, or unsuitable exterior form (for carrying the rifle on the back), are other problems relevant to this kind of hunting. The invention includes a supporting leg 1 , a bearing plate 2 , and a pivot catch 3 . The fore-end 101 can be imagined as the upper horizontal bar of a “Z” where the supporting leg, pivoted to the fore-end, is the inclined line and the bearing plate, pivoted to the supporting leg, is the lower horizontal bar. This arrangement facilitates compact and simple folding. The bearing plate provides large contact surface. The pivot catch fix the leg's inclination angle; that is, one of the angles of the “Z” is constant while the other is variable. The pivot catch may in particular be a crossbar, between the leg and the fore-end, whose attachment along the fore-end is adjustable.

1 . Height adjustable and foldable gun rest including a, at its first end, to the gun's fore-end  101  by a first pivot attached supporting leg  1  that has a closed position and extended positions, characterized in that, the supporting leg at its second end is, by means of a second pivot, attached to a bearing plate  2 ; and that one of the pivots has a pivot catch  3  that, in said extended positions, adjustably fixates the supporting leg's inclination to the fore-end or to the bearing plate.  
   
   
       2 . Height adjustable and foldable gun rest according to  claim 1 , 
 characterized in that, the pivot catch consists of a crossbar that joins two of three, in a triangular pattern arranged, pivots of which one constitute the supporting leg's first pivot and the two that are joined by the crossbar are attached one to the supporting leg and one to the fore-end.    
   
   
       3 . Height adjustable and foldable gun rest according to  claim 2 , 
 characterized in that, the crossbar and the fore-end's shared pivot is movable to several positions along the fore-end, thereby obtaining said adjustable fixation of the supporting leg's inclination.    
   
   
       4 . Height adjustable and foldable gun rest according to  claim 2 , 
 characterized in that, the supporting leg's first pivot is movable to several positions along the fore-end, thereby obtaining said adjustable fixation of the supporting leg's inclination.    
   
   
       5 . Height adjustable and foldable gun rest according to  claim 3 , 
 characterized in that, said positions along the fore-end comprises a row of recesses  51 .    
   
   
       6 . Height adjustable and foldable gun rest according to  claim 2 , 
 characterized in that, the supporting leg is composed of two parallel rails  1   a ,  1   b  movable, and adjustable in several positions, along each other; the first rail  1   a  attached to the fore-end and the second rail  1   b  attached to the bearing plate; and that said crossbar joins the second rail and the fore-end.    
   
   
       7 . Height adjustable and foldable gun rest according to  claim 1 , characterized in that, the supporting leg's first pivot includes a first coupling element  45  detachable from a second coupling element  45 *.  
   
   
       8 . Height adjustable and foldable gun rest according to  claim 1 , characterized in that, the bearing plate can be turned, around the supporting leg's second pivot, to a position whereat it can be fastened to the supporting leg by means of a locking device  7 , thereby elongating the supporting leg.  
   
   
       9 . Height adjustable and foldable gun rest according to  claim 8 , 
 characterized in that, the locking device also fastens the supporting leg to the fore-end, in the closed position.    
   
   
       10 . Height adjustable and foldable gun rest according to  claim 1 , characterized in that, a fastener  8  anchors the bearing plate to the supporting leg's second pivot; and that the bearing plate, being in a first position, can be loosened from the fastener, turned or moved, and anchored by the fastener in a second position.  
   
   
       11 . Height adjustable and foldable gun rest according to  claim 1 , characterized in that, the bearing plate in its one end has a recess  22  and that the supporting leg's first pivot has a for the recess suitable form, to stably hold the bearing plate to the fore-end in the closed position.