BOW STRING RELEASE

• US 3,768,456 A
• Filed: 09/30/1971
• Issued: 10/30/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Albert L. Hansen, Jep F. Hansen
• Original Assignee: Albert L. Hansen, Jep F. Hansen
• Inventors: Hansen, Jep F., Hansen, Albert L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pinkham, Richard C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Browne, William R.
• Application Number:
  US05/185,154
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 124/35A,41,3R 273/63,64 63/15.5,15.6,3,1,2
• US Class Current: 124/35.2
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 5/1469 Bow-string drawing or releasing devices F41B5/1473 takes precedence

Abstract

An elongated body including remote forwardly facing and rearwardly facing opposite side surfaces, as well as opposite ends between which said side surfaces extend. The body is adapted to be held horizontally in at least substantially closed fist of the user disposed in horizontal position with the rearwardly facing side surface of the body opposing the palm of the user, and at least some of the forwardly facing side surfaces of the body opposing the inner surfaces of the free end portions of some of the fingers of the hand of the user. One end portion of the body includes an upstanding opening therethrough for the index finger of a user and having a forward terminus defining an elongated transversely extending notch open at its opposite ends and opening laterally toward the end of the body upon which the lateral projection is disposed and the notch is operable to seatingly receive a bow string therein. The opening has removable sleeves positioned therein to receive various size fingers. The bowstring releasably seats behind a flange which forms a portion of the notch. The flange is adjustably shiftable for use with various sizes and types of bow strings.

Claims

1. A bow string releasing device comprising a horizontally elongated body including upper and lower sides and remote forwardly facing and rearwardly facing front and rear side surfaces as well as opposite ends betwen which said forwardly and rearwardly facing side surfaces extend, said body being adapted to be held horizOntally in at least a substantially closed fist of a user with the rear side of the body opposing the palm of a user and at least some of the forwardly facing side surfaces of the body opposing the inner surfaces free end portions of some of the fingers of a user, said body, at one end thereof, having an upstanding opening formed therethrough opening upwardly and downwardly through said upper and lower sides intermediate said front and rear sides of said body in which to receive an index finger of a user of said release, said front side surface of said other end of said body defining at least one upstanding forwardly opening finger receiving recess spaced therealong from said one end toward the other end of said body and adapted to have a user'"'"''"'"'s finger received therein, the portion of said one end of said body defining the forwardmost extremity of said opening including a forwardly projecting extension including means coacting with said extension and body and defining a vertically extending and horizontally opening notch opening toward said one end of said body, the horizontally opening open end of said notch being disposed, when in use, in generally front-to-rear alignment with the center of said finger opening and a bow string, said notch being adapted to seatingly receive a bow string therein with the opposite end portions of a bow string extending outwardly of the opposite ends of the notch, said means comprising a flange, means supporting said flange from said extension for permitting adjustable shifting of said flange longitudinally of said body.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein an end face of said flange defines the forward extremity of the notch and is radiused forwardly relative to said forwardly facing side surfaces of said body.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein said front side surface includes a plurality of finger receiving recesses disposed in side by side relation and aligned generally longitudinally of said body.

4. The combination of claim 3 wherein said recesses open outwardly in a forward direction relative to said forwardly facing side surfaces of said body, but are when in use, generally aligned in a front to rear direction relative to said forwardly and rearwardly facing side surfaces of said body.

5. A bow string string releasing device comprising a horizontally elongated body including upper and lower sides and remote forwardly facing and rearwardly facing front and rear side surfaces as well as opposite ends between which said forwardly and rearwardly facing side surfaces extend, said body being adapted to be held horizontally in at least a substantially closed fist of a user with the rear side of the body opposing a palm of a user and at least some of the forwardly facing side surfaces of the body opposing the inner surfaces of the free end portions of some fingers of a user, said body, at one end thereof, having an upstanding opening formed therethrough opening upwardly and downwardly through said upper and lower sides intermediate said front and rear sides of said body in which to receive an index finger of a user of said release, said front side surface of said other end of said body defining at least one upstanding forwardly opening finger receiving recess spaced therealong from said one end toward the other end of said body and adapted to have a user'"'"''"'"'s finger recieved therein, the portion of said one end of said body defining the forwardmost extremity of said opening including a forwardly projecting extension including means coacting with said extension and body and defining a vertically extending and horizontally opening notch opening toward said one of said body, the horizontally opening open end of said notch being disposed, when in use, in generally front-to-rear alignment with the center of said finger opening and a bow string, said notch being adapted to seatingly receive a bow string therein with the opposite end portions of a bow string extending outwardly of the opposide ends of the notch, and selectively usable telesCopingly nestable sleeves removably secured in said opening whereby the effective diameter of said opening may be varied.

6. The combination of claim 5 wherein the forward extremity of said notch is defined by a flange adjustably shiftable relative tr said extension longitudinally of said body.

7. The combination of claim 6 wherein an end face of said flange defines the forward extremity of the notch and is radiused forwardly relative to said forwardly facing side surface of said body.