Mechanical guns and projectors – Spring – Bow
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-12
2001-12-18
Ricci, John A. (Department: 3712)
Mechanical guns and projectors
Spring
Bow
C124S025600, C124S086000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06330881
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to the general field of archery, specifically to archer's bow quivers, and more particularly to a bow quiver arranged in balanced alignment with the longitudinal centerline of an archer's bow, to provide an archer with a convenient quivered supply of reserve shooting arrows for sequential arrow reload, without sacrifice to the critical shooting balance of a selected bow.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Archery is a popular sport and hobby which has gained increasing popularity for use in hunting and rapid shooting contests. Constant factors in archery are the interfering bulk of the bow, maintaining a critical shooting balance and the convenience of means available to the archer to assure a ready supply of arrows as the need arises. With the popularity of sporting contests and hunts involving movement of the archer from position to position, the convenience of a quiver which enables minimum motion reloading has become particularly desirable.
Particularly in the sport of bow hunting, it is generally necessary to get as close as possible to the quarry in order to assure that the arrow finds its mark. In the hunting environment, it is not unusual for a bow hunter to be required to stand in a still position to avoid detection by the quarry, and in many instances, movement that may be necessary to load or reload a bow is detected by the quarry and the opportunity to shoot is lost. Loading or nocking an arrow, or reloading an arrow after a missed shot, typically requires movement by the hunter which can easily be detected by the quarry. Thus, it is desirable to have a convenient means and location for storing arrows which allows the archer to load and reload with minimum detectable arm and hand movement.
Modern bows are sophisticated devices which are carefully engineered and balanced to provide an accurate platform for the repeatable accurate release of arrows. Generally, the hand grip and arrow rest are positioned as close to the centerline of the arc of the bow as possible so that the hand of the archer supporting the bow can effortlessly maintain the bow generally perpendicular when an arrow is nocked and the bow drawn to a shooting tension. Special sights and stringing means have been developed to assure the accuracy of the flight of an arrow, each of which are generally keyed to the centerline of the arc of the drawn bow and the ability of the archer to maintain the arrow along the centerline of the arc in an arrow launch plane during release to a target.
The prior art is replete with various quiver means for storing arrows on a bow and various devices for reloading arrows. Typically quiver means store the arrows in an arrangement generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the bow which add bulk to the profile of the bow and require significant movement of the archer's arm and hand in order to remove the arrow from the quiver and reload the bow. Typically, the center of gravity of such quiver means loaded with reserve arrows is to the side of the longitudinal axis of the bow which creates additional forces at the extended hand of the archer which supports the bow in the shooting position. Thus, the hand of the archer which supports the bow is not only supporting the weight of the bow and nocked arrow in a raised position, but the additional weight of a loaded quiver mounted generally parallel to the longitudinal centerline of the bow creates torque force moments at the hand which must be counteracted to maintain the bow in a perpendicular position. This torque must be compensated for by an archer in his shooting habits and as the plurality of reserve arrows is spent, the change in weight changes the torque which must be compensated for. Further complicating the process, such parallel mounted quivers are generally arranged significantly spaced from the bow to assure clearance of the arrow during the shooting act, increasing the moment of torque at the hand and increasing the bulk of the profile of the bow, which is problematic in dense foliage and obviates the presence of the hunter to his quarry.
Arrow reloading means of the prior art typically maintain several arrows in a complex mechanical apparatus that requires multiple moving parts to function. Many of such means make mechanical sounds when they are functioning, that are distinct from the environmental background sounds and are easily detected by the quarry. Such complex means are subject to malfunction because of the dirt and rough handling imposed upon the equipment in field use.
It is an object of this application to provide a detachable means for convenient storage of arrows on a bow in a position amenable to rapid reloading.
Another object of the application is to provide a means that allows reloading a bow with minimum hunter movement.
A still further object of the invention is to provide a light-weight, non-complex device, that is adaptable for convenient attachment to any size archery bow, which will retain the center of gravity of the bow as close as possible to its longitudinal axis and allow minimum change in bulk to the profile of the bow.
These and other objects of the invention will be apparent from the following description of the invention.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Typically, archer's bows comprise a riser, which is that portion of the bow generally about the middle of the bow generally containing a hand grip and/or arrow shelf and/or arrow rest, and resilient upper and lower limbs which extend from opposite ends of the riser to the remote ends of the bow. The ends of the limbs generally comprise means such as notches, wheels, eccentrics or the like to engage a bowstring. Traditional bows, can be one piece or multiple piece units and may be straight, curved, re-curved and the like, generally comprising notches or the like at opposite ends for attachment of a bowstring. Modern bows are generally three piece units and can also be straight, curved, re-curved and the like and may also be compound actuated. Many modern and some traditional bows have one or more mounting hole(s), arranged in the riser section along about the longitudinal axis of the bow, for attaching various accessories which may be used by an archer. Most have a mounting hole located below the hand grip, but many modern bows arrange a mounting hole above the hand grip at about the center of the arc, sometimes referred to as the center of the axle to axle length of a compound bow and/or the centerline of the bow.
One embodiment of the quiver device of the instant invention comprises an arrow head receiver unit which is configured to receive and firmly engage the arrow head ends of a plurality of arrows, and an arrow shaft receiver unit which is configured to grip the shafts of the plurality of arrows at a point spaced rearwardly along the arrows from their respective arrow head ends. Both the arrow head receiver unit and the arrow shaft receiver unit are mounted to the riser portion of the bow, preferably with the arrow head receiver unit mounted above the hand grip and the arrow shaft receiver unit preferably combined with a cable guard unit of a modern compound bow and mounted to a cable guard mounting hole below the arrow head receiver unit. In a most preferred embodiment, the arrow head receiver unit is mounted to the riser of the bow at about the end thereof wherein the upper limb extends therefrom, while the arrow shaft receiver unit is mounted by means of the cable guard mounting hole in the riser, just below or above the hand grip.
In a most preferred embodiment, the bow comprises detachable limbs, and the remote end of a limb comprises an axle having an eccentric such as a wheel and the like, which engages a cable type bowstring. The arrow head receiver unit comprises an arrow head receiver means mounted to a mounting plate, an end of the mounting plate being mounted to about the upper end of the riser, with the arrow head receiver being positioned in the area between the bow and the bowstring in a plane spaced to one side of the arrow launching plane. By arrow launch p
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