Geometrical instruments – Straight-line light ray type – Structurally installed
Reexamination Certificate
2003-03-08
2004-06-08
Bennett, G. Bradley (Department: 2859)
Geometrical instruments
Straight-line light ray type
Structurally installed
Reexamination Certificate
active
06745482
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a bow sight. More particularly, the present invention relates to a bow sight with replaceable sight pin guard.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Archery requires precise aiming. To this end, even small improvements in the ability to sight are valuable benefits. The sighting devices utilized in archery have not changed greatly over the years. In most modern sighting systems, a sight extends from the bow handle and includes sight pins.
Because these sight pins on a hunter's bow are very susceptible to breakage during movement through underbrush and foliage common in hunting grounds, hunter bow sights of the pin type include fixed protective frames overlying the sight pins. These fixed protective frames, however, obstruct view of the target and thereby hinder aiming.
Thus, there exists a need for a bow sight having a pin guard that protects the sight pins when desired, but does not obstruct view of the target during aiming.
Numerous innovations for bow sights have been provided in the prior art that will be described infra. Even though these innovations may be suitable for the specific individual purposes to which they address, they each differ in structure and/or operation and/or purpose from the present invention in that they do not teach a bow sight having a pin guard that protects the sight pins when desired, but does not obstruct view of the target during aiming.
FOR EXAMPLE, typical prior art pin type bow sights include, to name a few, the “Cyclone,” the Lightning,” the “Thunder,” and the “Toxonics™ Hybrid
4
,” all manufactured by Browning Archery.
A typical prior art pin type bow sight
10
can best be seen in
FIG. 1
, which is a diagrammatic perspective view of a bow with a typical prior art pin type bow sight thereon, and as such, will be discussed with reference thereto.
The typical prior art pin type bow sight
10
has a base
12
for mounting to a bow
14
, at least one sight pin
16
extending from the base
12
, and a sight pin guard
18
attached to the base
12
and overlying the at least one sight pin
16
. The base
12
has a bow-facing surface
20
, an ambient-facing surface
22
that is opposite to the bow-facing surface
20
, and a pair of ends
24
. The sight pin guard
18
has a pair of legs
26
with terminal ends
27
, inner-facing surfaces
28
, and outer-facing surfaces
30
.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE, U.S. Pat. No. 4,535,747 to Kudlacek teaches an archery bow sight that includes a base plate arranged for removable attachment to the handle portion of a bow and supporting a longitudinally extendable mounting arm which mounts at its forward end a horizontally adjustable bow sight windage carriage which, in turn, mounts an elevation carriage provided for micrometrically graduated vertical movement perpendicular to the plane of movement of the aforesaid windage carriage. An elongated sight pin mounting block mounts a plurality of sighting pins for individual adjustment parallel and perpendicular to the longitudinal dimension of the block in order to provide yardage and elevation adjustment of each pin for sighting on targets of various distances while also providing for horizontal adjustment of each pin for various windage conditions.
STILL ANOTHER EXAMPLE, U.S. Pat. No. 4,788,961 to Toth teaches an archery bow having accessories attached to the bow by a support block having an internal opening which receives a tang extending from an archery accessory. Accessories which may be attached to the bow include a detachable sight, an auxiliary arrow holder and a bow-fishing reel. More than one accessory may be locked to the support block. A shoulder is formed where the tang extends from the accessory to aid in positioning the accessory in the support block. The auxiliary arrow holder is an arm having an arrow support bracket on the end opposite the tang which includes a plurality of resilient fingers aligned on opposite sides and axially offset from each other for gripping the shaft of an arrow. The bow-fishing accessory includes a reel having a thin rim with a concave perimeter and a brace offset from the central axis of the rim. The reel is connected to the support block by an arm extending between the brace and the tang. A detachable quiver may be attached to the support block with the support block including one part of the detachable quiver mount and the quiver including a second part of the detachable quiver mount.
YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE, U.S. Pat. No. 4,819,611 to Sappington teaches a flexible sight pin for an archery bow sighting device in which the flexible sight pin is mounted to the body of the sighting device to permit universal flexing movement of the sight pin upon encountering a force of greater magnitude. The flexible sight pin includes a first portion attached to the body of the sighting device, a second portion constituting an elongated flexible element connected at one end thereof to the first portion and also to a third portion on the opposite end of the second portion. The third portion terminates in an archer's sight at the free end of the flexible sight pin.
STILL YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE, U.S. Pat. No. 5,413,084 to Haggard teaches an archery sight and arrow rest combination that incorporates the positioning of the sight generally vertically above the arrow rest. Positioning of the sight generally vertically above the arrow rest eliminates any undesirable effects from archer induced torque on the bow handle. Both the sight and rest are positioned rearwardly of the bow handle. Should the bow handle be twisted due to archer induced torque, both the sight and arrow rest will move to effectively the same position. Thus, when the archer sights along the sight member, the arrow will be pointing in the same direction. In the prior art, the arrow rest was often behind the bow handle with the sight in front of the bow handle. When archer induced torque occurred, the archer would be sighting along one line, while the arrow would actually be aimed along another. The combination has addressed this problem. In addition, the combination provides a one-piece easily removable sight and arrow rest combination that the archer may quickly and easily remove. Since the sight and arrow rest are delicate members, facilitating the removal by the archer will ensure that they are easily protected during transport.
YET STILL ANOTHER EXAMPLE, U.S. Pat. No. 5,488,941 to Springstead teaches a brush guard (10) for preventing brush (75) from becoming wedged between the upper limb (101) of a bow (100) and a quiver (200) mounted on the bow (100); wherein, the brush guard (10) includes an elongated brush guard arm member (50) releasably attached to the quiver cap (204) on one end (51) and disposed proximate to the upper limb (101) on the other end (32).
STILL YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE, U.S. Pat. No. 5,676,122 to Wiseby et al. teaches an arrangement for a sight for a bow having at least two independently adjustable sighting members which are capable of being displaced and guided in the desired adjustment direction, and are supported by a guide intended for that purpose. At least one of the sighting members is capable of removable connection to a common drive member extending along the guides for the purpose of adjusting the sighting members independently of one another.
YET STILL ANOTHER EXAMPLE, U.S. Pat. No. 6,061,919 to Reichert teaches a range finder and sight guide for an archer's bow, particularly for hunting of game, such as deer. The device thereof includes a frame removably mounted to the archer's bow and having a pair of vertically oriented guide rails for slidably receiving a slide member. A pair of pivotal arms are rotatably mounted to the slide member where each arm fixedly mounts a horizontally disposed range pin. By manually adjusting the slide member, the respective range pins may be moved closer or farther apart to accurately define the intended game target. Further included is a horizontally disposed sight pin fixedly secured to the slide member and which remains intermediate
Bennett G. Bradley
Hoffman Bernard S.
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