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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2013
Brendon B. Zinsner, Sarasota, FL (US);
Brendon B. Zinsner, Sarasota, FL (US);
Other;
Abstract
A quick-detach, free floating, two-piece forward hand guard assembly for a rifle, which includes an inner barrel nut adapted for connection to the rifle's receiver and an outer barrel nut telescopically received over the inner barrel nut and secured thereto to prevent rotation therebetween. The hand guard assembly also includes a top hand guard element engaged with and extending forwardly from the outer barrel nut in a laterally-stable cantilevered orientation above the rifle's barrel. A bottom hand guard element is matingly engaged with the top hand guard element for surrounding the bottom portion of the rifle's barrel and free-floats from the top hand guard element. A spring-loaded detent screw attaches the top and bottom hand guard elements together and also engages the inner barrel nut. For quick-detach barrel removal, the outer barrel nut may be hinged for clamshell action, with the inner barrel nut having a separable two-piece extension.