Trigger release device for bow strings

• US 4,036,204 A
• Filed: 12/10/1975
• Issued: 07/19/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joseph D. Scott
• Original Assignee: Joseph D. Scott
• Inventors: Scott, Joseph D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pinkham, Richard C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Browne, William R.
• Application Number:
  US05/639,353
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• Field of Search: 124/35 A, 124/24 R, 124/23 R, 124/35 R, 128/321
• US Class Current: 124/35.2
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 5/1469 Bow-string drawing or releasing devices F41B5/1473 takes precedence

Abstract

A release device for drawing the bow string which is released to propel an arrow having an arrangement of first and second pivoted jaw members each having a jaw thereon mounted by means of a pivot pin to a handle. A pivoted trigger member on the handle has a notch therein into which fits a projecting portion on the first jaw member for engagement when the jaws are closed. The jaws are clamped over the bow string and the trigger is pulled to disengage the projecting portion and release the bow string and arrow.

Claims

1. In a release device for the bow string of a bow which is used to propel an arrow:

a handle,

a pair of first and second opposed jaws pivotally mounted on said handle and each of said jaws having a cavity therein so that said jaws when closed together from an opening therebeneath in which a bow string is confined,

a first jaw member including said first jaw thereon and a second jaw member including said second jaw thereon, said first and second jaw members each being elongated and having a respective first pivot connected by first pivot means therebetween, said first pivot means mounting said first and second jaw members on said handle,

a trigger member having a pivot attaching portion and there being second pivot means pivotally connecting the pivot attaching portion of said trigger member with said second jaw member,

a trigger on said trigger member,

a notch in said trigger member, and

a projecting portion on said first jaw member for engagement in said notch in said trigger member when said jaws are closed.

2. The device in claim 1 wherein said first jaw member is formed with a recessed cavity thereon receiving part of said trigger member therein, said second jaw member also having a recessed cavity thereon receiving part of said first jaw member therein whereby said first jaw member fits into the cavity in said second jaw member.

3. The device in claim 1 wherein the first jaw member comprises a center portion and a recessed terminal portion with a hole therein, said trigger member having a hole therein, matching with said hole in said first jaw member, a pivot pin connecting said first jaw member and said second jaw member.

4. The device in claim 3, said second jaw member comprising a notch defining therewith the protrusion which fits into the notch in the trigger member.