Archery release aid light apparatus

• US 20090090342A1
• Filed: 10/09/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eric Braden, William C. Freitag
• Original Assignee: Eric Braden, William C. Freitag
• Inventors: Braden, Eric, Freitag, William C.
• Application Number:
  US12/287,587
• Publication Number:
  US 20090090342A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 124/35.2
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 9/02 the power supply being a battery or accumulator
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/008 Leisure, hobby or sport articles, e.g. toys, games or first-aid kits; Hand tools; Toolboxes
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 5/1438 Buttons
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 5/1469 Bow-string drawing or releasing devices F41B5/1473 takes precedence

Abstract

A small, light-weight, portable lighting device that attaches to an archery release aid providing sufficient illumination to assist the archer in attaching the release aid to the bowstring or loop and/or the arrow to the nocking position of the bowstring is provided. The light apparatus has a housing, a power supply, a button and a lighting device. The housing has a first outer wall component and a second outer wall component, with each of the first and second outer wall components attached to one another. The housing has an interior cavity, and a first aperture and a second aperture. The power supply is preferably located inside the housing. The button is preferably depressable, and is retained in the cavity, with the button being visible through the first aperture. Preferably the button projects through the first aperture, and the lighting device projects through the second aperture.

Claims

1. An archery release aid light apparatus comprising

a housing having a first outer wall component and a second outer wall component, said first and second outer wall components attached to one another, said housing having an interior cavity, said housing having a first aperture and a second aperture,

a power supply located inside said housing,

a depressable button, said button retained in said cavity, said button visible through said first aperture, and

a lighting device, said lighting device having a lighting device housing, a light emitting member, and circuitry, said circuitry having a first component and a second component, said first component extending from said lighting device to a location intermediate said power supply and said button, said second component extending from said lighting device to a location intermediate said power supply and said second outer wall component, said lighting device housing projecting through said second aperture.

2. The archery release aid light apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first aperture is of a first area and said second aperture is of a second area, said first aperture being larger in area than said second aperture.

3. The archery release aid light apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said housing has a top wall, a bottom wall, and a side wall, with the top wall being generally rectangular in shape.

4. The archery release aid light apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said first aperture is located in said top wall and said second aperture is located in said side wall.

5. The archery release aid light apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said first aperture is larger in area than said second aperture.

6. The archery release aid light apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said button projects through said first aperture.

7. The archery release aid light apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said light emitting member is a light emitting diode.

8. The archery release aid light apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first component and said second component are each conductors.

9. An archery release aid apparatus having secured thereto a light apparatus with the light apparatus comprising

a housing having a first outer wall component and a second outer wall component, said first and second outer wall components attached to one another, said housing having an interior cavity, said housing having a first aperture and a second aperture,

a power supply located inside said housing,

a depressable button, said button retained in said cavity, said button visible through said first aperture, and

a lighting device, said lighting device having a lighting device housing, a light emitting member, and circuitry, said circuitry having a first component and a second component, said first component extending from said lighting device to a location intermediate said power supply and said button, said second component extending from said lighting device to a location intermediate said power supply and said second outer wall component, said lighting device housing projecting through said second aperture.