Firearms – Implements – Rests
Patent
1997-04-14
1998-10-13
Jordan, Charles
Firearms
Implements
Rests
F41A 2148
Patent
active
058194614
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus helps a user steadily hold a pointable device, such as a camera, a telescope, or a gun. It includes an arm rest having upper and lower portions, respectively, for supporting an upper arm from below and for restricting rotation of a lower arm bent at the elbow. The upper and lower arm holding portions each can press against a user's arm from enough directions to retard motion of the arm perpendicular to its length. The upper and lower portions can include cylindrical inner surfaces angled to bend an arm at least sixty degrees at the elbow. A support holds the arm rest from below. The support can include a rigid elongated member. In some embodiments, this member reaches to the ground. In many others, it rests against a user's hip and has a lower end designed to be supported by a pocket, belt, or Velcro pad on the user's hip. It is preferred that the elongated member slant down and in toward the hip from the arm rest at an adjustably fixed angle and that the lower arm holding portion be supported in a diagonal direction which points both up and in toward a position in front of the user's face. The apparatus often includes a mounting for the pointable device, preferably one which can be rotated with two degrees of freedom, and one the height of which relative to the arm rest can be adjustably fixed.
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Chelliah Meena
Jordan Charles
Porter Edward W.
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