US 12,256,816 B2
Fold-out accessory rest for pole
Richard V. Hutton, Jr., Bozeman, MT (US)
Filed by FHF GEAR, INC., Bozeman, MT (US)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/955,299.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/249,220, filed on Sep. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0096179 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. A45B 1/00 (2006.01); A45B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A45B 1/00 (2013.01) [A45B 5/00 (2013.01); A45B 2200/055 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fold-out accessory rest for attachment on a pole, as in a trekking pole or ski pole, and/or for attachment on a leg, as in a tripod leg, the fold-out accessory rest being for supporting a firearm, spotting scope, or camera lens and comprising:
a. An elongate rest body with a long axis along its length, and with top, middle and lower parts to be installed on a pole or leg;
b. A securement means on the rest body for attaching and securing the rest body to a pole or leg;
c. A receiving and securing structure at or near a top part of the rest body;
d. A flexible elongated rest-strap having a length between a proximal end and a distal end and adapted to be flexibly rotatably connected on its proximal end near the rest body's middle part;
e. A single strap-supporting flap having a flap proximal end and a flap distal end and being adapted to be flexibly rotatably connected on the flap proximal end near the rest body's lower part;
f. The rest-strap also being adapted to be flexibly foldably connected on its distal end to the flap distal end to form a flexibly foldable juncture between the rest-strap and the strap-supporting flap; and
g. Whereby the juncture between the rest-strap and the strap-supporting flap may be folded up so that both the rest-strap and the strap-supporting flap may be received and secured by the receiving and securing structure to place the rest-strap and the strap-supporting flap in a stowed folded-up (un-deployed) position with the rest-strap folded along said length and lying between the rest body and the single strap-supporting flap, and whereby the rest-strap and the strap-supporting flap may be conveniently and quickly un-secured from the receiving and securing structure to place the rest-strap and the strap-supporting flap in an outwardly unfolded (deployed) position whereby the rest-strap flexes to cradle the firearm, spotting scope, or camera lens.