US 11,913,747 B2
Base pad for magazine and magazine group
Piergiacomo Fausti, Gussago (IT); Stefano Fausti, Gussago (IT); and Elia Milani, Gussago (IT)
Assigned to MEC-GAR S.R.L., Gussago (IT)
Appl. No. 17/423,595
Filed by MEC-GAR S.R.L., Gussago (IT)
PCT Filed Jan. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/050371
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 16, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/148716, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 102019000000811 (IT), filed on Jan. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0107148 A1, Apr. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. F41A 9/65 (2006.01); F41A 9/71 (2006.01)
CPC F41A 9/65 (2013.01) [F41A 9/71 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A base pad for a firearm magazine, suitable for being releasably coupled to a lower end of the firearm magazine, said base pad comprising a base pad body made in one piece, wherein said base pad body comprises a body base and a peripheral wall, protruding peripherally from the body base, whereby the body base and the peripheral wall delimit a body compartment configured to face the lower end of the firearm magazine,
wherein anchoring means for anchoring the base pad to the firearm magazine are provided on said peripheral wall, on a side of the body compartment,
wherein said peripheral wall, on an outer side, opposite to the side of the body compartment, comprises fins, spaced apart from each other,
wherein the base pad further comprises two connecting ribs, connected to each other, each connecting rib of the two connecting ribs connecting two or more fins together,
wherein a first connecting rib of the two connecting ribs extends mainly along a first inclined rib direction and a second connecting rib of the two connecting ribs extends mainly along a second inclined rib direction that intersects the first inclined rib direction,
wherein the first inclined rib direction and the second inclined rib direction are inclined relative to a direction of greater extension of the fins.