Loop-shaped Sling Adapter for use on Buffer Tube Assembly or Rifle Stock

• Main Author: KING JOHNATHAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.11.2010
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; BLASTING; HEATING; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; SMALLARMS, e.g. PISTOLS, RIFLES; WEAPONS

A clamping sling attachment is configured for use on a carbine or rifle such as the M4 having it's a butt stock mounted on a cylindrical proximally projecting buffer tube, where a distal end of the buffer tube is threaded into the rear of the rifle's receiver. The sling attachment is releasably mountable on the buffer tube as an openable spring-clamp like loop which can be opened enough to go around the buffer tube's cylindrical outer wall. The sling attachment also has a laterally or transversely projecting sling mount defining a substantially vertical, transverse sling-hook receiving through-bore on one side to which the lower end of a weapon sling is releasably attachable. The buffer tube's central axis is the same as the sling attachment loop's central axis and is substantially perpendicular to the sling attachment's transverse sling-hook receiving through-bore.