BOWSTRING-MOUNTED PEEP SIGHT

• US 3,703,771 A
• Filed: 02/10/1971
• Issued: 11/28/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles A. Saunders
• Original Assignee: Charles A. Saunders
• Inventors: Saunders, Charles A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Forman, Leonard
• Assistant Examiner(s): Stephan, Steven L.
• Application Number:
  US05/114,108
• Time in Patent Office: 657 Days
• Field of Search: 33/46A,52 124/23,24,3R,3A
• US Class Current: 33/265
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 5/1419 String mounted peep sights sights mounted on the bow itself F41G1/467
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/08 with aperture ; tubular or of ring form; Peep sights F41G1/42 takes precedence

Abstract

A bowstring-mounted peep sight including a body having vertically disposed side channels serving as housings and guides for carrying the strands of a divided multi-filament bowstring. A frame encircling the body of the sight and overlying the divided strands firmly embraces the peep sight body along opposed sides thereof, the frame including internally formed upper and lower bosses or hubs having axially disposed in-line passages adapted slidably to receive the bowstring therethrough, whereby the peep sight is conveniently secured on the bowstring in any selectable position. The body of the peep sight, adjacent the area of the sighting port, is provided with a grating-type surface contour to eliminate reflection and glare in the region of the port.

Claims

1. An archery peep sight adapted for securement on a stranded bowstring of a bow and comprising:

an elongated frame having a longitudinal axis adapted to extend along the bowstring when the peep sight is functionally secured to the bowstring, said frame including a pair of opposed, laterally separated band means generally paralleling the longitudinal axis of said frame, a pair of axially spaced boss means interconnecting said band means at corresponding opposite ends thereof, each said boss means having formed therein an axial, through passage for receiving a stranded bowstring therethrough, a peep sight body physically dimensioned for cooperation with and for framed securement within said frame, said body adapted to seat firmly within said frame and to serve as a mechanical divider of filaments of the stranded bow-string passing axially through said passages in said boss means, longitudinally extending filaments of said stranded bow-string being disposed to embrace said peep sight body and to pass on each of opposite lateral sides thereof in contact therewith, said filaments being confined between said body and facing surfaces of said band means of said frame stressing thereagainst, said filaments being thereby securely retained between said body and said band means to support said peep sight frictionally on said bowstring, said body being formed with a viewing port extending therethrough in a direction generally normal of a longitudinal axis of said peep sight and its supporting bowstring, whereby said port serves as a peep sight port along a path of view of an archer when the latter draws the bowstring.

2. The structure as set forth in claim 1 and further comprising groove means extending longitudinally along said body of said peep sight on opposed lateral sides of said body, said groove means constituting at least partially recessed strand receiving guides for seating of said strands therewithin to enhance securement thereof.

3. The structure as set forth in claim 1 and further comprising light baffle means to minimize objectionable reflection of ambient light impinging upon and reflected from a surface of said peep sight facing an archer during use of said peep sight, said baffle means comprising grating means formed on a facing said surface of said peep sight body and encircling said peep sight port, said grating means consisting of arrays of alternating raised portions and depressed portions in said peep sight body.

4. The structure as set forth in claim 3 wherein said arrays of alternating raised portions and depressed portions define a plurality of radial sectors disposed annularly about said peep sight port.

5. The structure as set forth in claim 1 and wherein saiD boss means define annular collars about said bowstring passing threthrough and further comprising a band-like clamping element adapted for encircling and grippingly stressing against said collars to lock said collars on said bowstring, thereby to hold said peep sight securely in a selectable fixed position on the bowstring.

6. The structure as set forth in claim 4 wherein said radial sectors disposed annularly about said peep sight port form a multifaceted dish-like recess extending inwardly of said peep sight body into a face thereof presented to an archer during drawing of the bow and use of said peep sight.