Weapon magazine cushion

Abstract

The weapon magazine cushion is a protective accessory for releasably fastening to a weapon magazine having a magazine base that is directed outward at the lower grip end of the weapon in the installed position and has a substantially planar magazine-base underside to which the weapon magazine cushion is fastened in a self-adhesive manner. It has a blocklike body with a flat abutment side directed toward the magazine-base underside with a rounded end face. The body is formed from an adhesive polyurethane gel material that is elastically deformable under pressure and is enclosed by a non-adhesive and protective skin, apart from on the abutment side.

Claims

1. A weapon magazine cushion for releasably fastening to a weapon magazine having a magazine base that is directed outward at a lower grip end of a weapon in an installed position and has a substantially planar magazine-base underside, comprising: a blocklike body with a flat abutment side configured for direction toward a magazine-base underside, wherein the body has a rounded end, and wherein the body is formed from an adhesive polyurethane gel material that is elastically deformable under pressure and is enclosed by a skin apart from on the abutment side, and wherein the adhesive polyurethane gel is self adhering, and on the abutment side is fastenable and releasable from the magazine-base underside.

2. The weapon magazine cushion as claimed in claim 1 configured for fastening to a substantially cuboidal magazine.

3. The weapon magazine cushion as claimed in claim 1 configured for fastening to a box magazine, stick magazine, trapezoidal magazine or curved magazine.

4. The weapon magazine cushion as claimed in claim 1 wherein the body is fully or regionally beveled or rounded at an encircling edge on a side remote from the abutment side.

5. The weapon magazine cushion as claimed in claim 1 wherein the body is beveled on a side opposite from the rounded end.

6. The weapon magazine cushion as claimed in claim 1 wherein the body has a thickness of at least 2 mm.

7. The weapon magazine cushion as claimed in claim 1 wherein the body has a beveled face, and wherein the beveled face is wider than a thickness of the body.

8. The weapon magazine cushion as claimed in claim 1 wherein the gel material of the body has a Shore-000 hardness of 15 to a Shore-A harness of 60.

9. The weapon magazine cushion as claimed in claim 1 wherein the skin is formed on outwardly directed sides of the body apart from en the abutment side by a sprayed skin, painting, coating or an applied film.

10. The weapon magazine cushion as claimed in claim 1 wherein the gel material and/or the skin is dyed.

11. A weapon magazine comprising a weapon magazine cushion as recited in claim 1 attached to a base of the weapon magazine.

12. The weapon magazine of claim 11 wherein the weapon magazine is a box magazine, stick magazine, trapezoidal magazine or curved magazine.

Description

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) In the following text, the invention is explained in more detail by reference to an exemplary embodiment shown in the drawing, in which:

(2) FIG. 1a shows a weapon magazine cushion schematically in cross section as seen from one of the end sides,

(3) FIG. 1b shows the weapon magazine cushion schematically in plan view of the flat side/abutment side, and

(4) FIG. 1c shows the weapon magazine cushion schematically in cross section from the side; and

(5) FIG. 2 shows a schematic view of the weapon magazine cushion attached to a magazine, in side view.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

(6) The illustration is schematic and not to scale. FIG. 1 shows a weapon magazine cushion 10 according to the invention in different views, in section from the front or rear, in plan view and in section from the side. In this case, identical elements are provided with the same reference signs.

(7) FIG. 1a shows the weapon magazine cushion 10, which has a dimensionally stable, injection-molded body 11 made of a polyurethane gel, as seen in a cross-sectional view from one of the end sides, i.e. in transverse section. The cross-sectional shape of the body 11 can be seen, whichapart from on the abutment side 12, with which the body 11 bears against a magazine that is not shown in this illustration and adheres theretois enclosed by a skin 13. The body 11 has a thickness 18. This thickness is a maximum thickness; toward its edges, the body is beveled or rounded, such that the thickness is smaller there. As the cross section shows, the weapon magazine cushion 10 illustrated here is rounded in the transverse direction.

(8) FIG. 1b shows a plan view of the flat side, or the abutment side 12. The body 11 or the weapon magazine cushion 10 as a whole is not provided with the skin 13 on this side, and so the gel material is exposed and can be brought into adhesive contact with the magazine to which it is intended to be applied. The weapon magazine cushion 10 is rounded on one end side 14. On the abutment side 12, it is tacky and as a result self-adhering to different surfaces. The surface of the abutment side 12 is shaped such that it matches numerous common magazine base plate forms.

(9) FIG. 1c shows a cross-sectional view of the same weapon magazine cushion 10 from the side, i.e. in longitudinal section. The free abutment side 12, not provided with a skin, and the opposite side 16 provided with the skin 13 can be seen. At the encircling edge 17, the weapon magazine cushion 10 is inclined in the longitudinal direction andas was previously apparent in FIG. 1arounded in the transverse direction.

(10) FIG. 2 shows the weapon magazine cushion 10, as described above, in abutment against a conventional weapon magazine 20. The magazine has a magazine housing 22 and a magazine base 24 having a magazine base underside 26. The weapon magazine cushion 10 adheres to this magazine base underside 26, which is formed in an entirely planar manner here.