US 12,235,077 B2
Magazine attached illuminating device
Michael Frank Hughes, Maple Falls, WA (US); and Britton R Lentz, Everson, WA (US)
Filed by NextLevel Training LLC, Ferndale, WA (US)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/976,972.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/274,030, filed on Nov. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0134871 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. F41G 1/35 (2006.01); F41A 9/64 (2006.01); F41G 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC F41G 11/001 (2013.01) [F41A 9/64 (2013.01); F41G 1/35 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A magazine attached illuminating device for a firearm having a magazine, the magazine attached illuminating device comprising:
an illuminating device body configured to be attached on a bottom of the magazine, the illuminating device body having:
a slot; and
an attaching cap to be detachably coupled to the illuminating device body, wherein the attaching cap, in entirety, is outside the slot, when the attaching cap is coupled to the illuminating device body;
a prime illuminator attached to a front end of the illuminating device body and a body of the prime illuminator extends in the slot to be removably disposed in the slot, wherein the body of the prime illuminator includes a power source disposed therein, the prime illuminator protrudes outwards from the illuminating device body, and is angled with respect to each of the illuminating device body and the attaching cap, the prime illuminator is configured to throw light on an object, the prime illuminator defines a center of throw of the light, and luminescent dispersion from the light; and
a switch member attached to a rear end, opposite to the front end, of the illuminating device body to turn the magazine attached illuminating device on and off;
wherein the power source provided in the body of the prime illuminator to power the prime illuminator upon actuation of the switch member, and
wherein a center throw of light from the prime illuminator is configured to be vertically lower from a bore axis extending longitudinally through a geometric center of a muzzle of the firearm.