Humane bleeder arrow

• US 4,212,463 A
• Filed: 02/17/1978
• Issued: 07/15/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Enoch B. Pratt, Robert J. Repinski
• Original Assignee: Enoch B. Pratt, Robert J. Repinski
• Inventors: Pratt, Enoch B., Repinski, Robert J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shapiro, Paul E.
• Application Number:
  US05/878,717
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 273/106.5 R, 273/106.5 A, 273/106.5 B, 29/413, 29/414, 29/415, 74/57, 124/24 R
• US Class Current: 473/581
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/362 Arrows or darts F42B12/38 takes precedence, having means for implantation, e.g. hypodermic projectiles F42B12/54; arrows or darts in general F42B6/00
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 6/04 Archery arrows F42B6/08, F41B5/06, F42B12/362 take precedence

Abstract

A humane hunting arrow which is particularly designed to most effectively obtain the utmost bleed-out possible for a given hit in the shortest period of time. The shaft of the arrow is hollow and is designed to facilitate passage of blood therethrough. Further, the shaft may be provided, either on its inside or outside surfaces, with one or a plurality of weakened areas in the form of grooves, scratches, scored or marked lines, or the like, for facilitating shearing of the arrow shaft thereat after the hit has been registered. Clean breakage of the arrow shaft at the point adjacent the animal'"'"'s flesh facilitates bleed-out. The broadhead arrow tip includes an opening for creating a reservoir near the open front end of the arrow shaft for further facilitating and expediting the passage of blood therethrough. The element for attaching the broadhead to the shaft allows the complete inside diameter of the arrow shaft to be free of obstructions to further facilitate bleed-out. The attachment element further provides a tension arrangement which allows the pointed broadhead to easily enter the hide and to slide off bone and hard cartilage beneath the hide to enable the broadhead to penetrate the flesh of the animal deep enough to even further facilitate bleed-out.

Claims

1. Apparatus, which comprises a hunting arrow including an elongated, hollow shaft having an inner surface, an outer surface and groove means formed thereon for facilitating the shearing of said shaft at the position thereof, said groove means comprising at least one groove extending circumferentially about said shaft, wherein said inner surface is smooth and of a substantially constant diameter along the entire lenght of said shaft and wherein said arrow includes an open front end at the forward portion of said shaft of a diameter equal to said constant diameter, and further comprising arrowhead means attached to said open front end of said arrow so as not to obstruct fluid flow thereinto, said arrowhead means comprising a sleeve affixed to said outer surfaces of said shaft, a substantially planar broadhead removably mountable on said sleeve, and a substantially planar blade insert oriented at right angles to said broadhead and removably mountable on said sleeve and broadhead.

2. The apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said broadhead and said blade insert each include means formed therein for establishing a space between the animal tissue and said open end of said shaft to facilitate blood flow thereinto.

3. The hunting arrow as set forth in claim 2, wherein said space establishing means includes apertures formed in said broadhead and in said blade insert.

4. The hunting arrow as set forth in claim 3, wherein said apertures are somewhat heart-shaped.

5. The hunting arrow as set forth in claim 3, wherein said broadhead and said blade insert each terminate at like ends thereof in spaced base prongs adapted to be received in said sleeve.

6. Apparatus, which comprises a hunting arrow, including a hunting broadhead, a nock and a shaft, said shaft comprising an elongated, hollow shaft having an inner surface, an outer surface and means formed thereon for facilitating the shearing of said shaft at the position thereof, wherein said means comprises a plurality of individual grooves extending circumferentially and spaced longitudinally along said shaft.

7. The apparatus as set forth in claim 6, wherein said plurality of grooves are formed on the inner surface of said shaft.

8. The apparatus as set forth in claim 6, wherein said plurality of grooves are formed on the outer surface of said shaft.

9. Apparatus, which comprises a hunting arrow including a hunting broadhead, a nock and a shaft, said shaft comprising an elongated, hollow shaft having an inner surface, an outer surface and means formed thereon for facilitating the shearing of said shaft at the position thereof, wherein said means comprises at least one groove spirally formed on said shaft, said groove extending in a spiral fashion about the circumference of said shaft a plurality of times and having a pitch approximately on the order of magnitude or less than the diameter of said shaft.

10. The apparatus as set forth in claim 9, wherein said groove is formed on the inner surface of said shaft.

11. The apparatus as set forth in claim 9, wherein said groove is formed on the outer surface of said shaft.

12. The apparatus as set forth in claim 9, further comprising a second groove spirally formed on said shaft in a sense opposite to that of said one groove.

13. The apparatus as set forth in claim 9, further comprising a plurality of grooves spirally formed on said shaft.

14. A hunting arrow, which comprises a hunting broadhead, a nock and a shaft, said shaft comprising an elongated, hollow shaft having an inner surface, an outer surface and groove means formed thereon for facilitating the shearing of said shaft at the position thereof, wherein said groove means comprises at least one groove extending circumferentially about said shaft.

15. A hunting arrow, which comprises an elongated, hollow shaft having an inner surface, an outer surface and means formed thereon for facilitating the shearing of said shaft at the position thereof, said shaft including an open front end and further comprising arrowhead means attached to said open front end of said shaft so as not to obstruct fluid flow thereinto;

wherein said arrowhead means comprises a sleeve affixed to said outer surface of said shaft, a substantially planar broadhead removably mountable on said sleeve, and a substantially planar blade insert oriented at right angles to said broadhead and removably mountable on said sleeve and broadhead, said broadhead and said blade insert each including means formed therein for establishing a space between the animal tissue and said open end of said shaft to facilitate blood flow thereinto, said space establishing means including apertures formed in said broadhead and in said blade insert;

wherein said broadhead and said blade insert each terminate at like ends thereof in spaced base prongs adapted to be received in said sleeve, and further comprising hole means formed in said spaced base prongs for facilitating installation and removal of said broadhead and said blade insert.

16. A hunting arrow, which comprises an elongated, hollow shaft having an inner surface, an outer surface and means formed thereon for facilitating the shearing of said shaft at the position thereof, said shaft including an open front end and further comprising arrowhead means attached to said shaft so as not to obstruct fluid flow thereinto,

and further comprising means for coupling said arrowhead means to said shaft to permit said arrowhead means to shift laterally with respect to said shaft upon impact, said coupling means comprising a sleeve affixed to the outer surface of one end of said shaft, said arrowhead means including spaced base prongs adapted to be received about said sleeve;

wherein said arrowhead means comprises a substantially planar broadhead with said prongs formed at the rearward end thereof and including means for accommodating said sleeve therewithin.

17. The hunting arrow as set forth in claim 16, wherein said sleeve accommodating means comprises a pair of elongated cutouts one formed on the inner edge of each of said prongs.

18. Apparatus, which comprises a hunting arrow including an elongated, hollow shaft having an inner surface, an outer surface and groove means formed thereon for facilitating the shearing of said shaft at the position thereof, said groove means comprising a plurality of individual grooves extending circumferentially and spaced longitudinally along said shaft, wherein said inner surface is smooth and of a substantially constant diameter along the entire length of said shaft and wherein said arrow includes an open front end at the forward portion of said shaft of a diameter equal to said constant diameter, and further comprising arrowhead means attached to said open front end of said arrow so as not to obstruct fluid flow thereinto, said arrowhead means comprising a sleeve affixed to said outer surfaces of said shaft, a substantially planar broadhead removably mountable on said sleeve, and a substantially planar blade insert oriented at right angles to said broadhead and removably mountable on said sleeve and broadhead.

19. Apparatus, which comprises a hunting arrow including an elongated, hollow shaft having an inner surface, an outer surface and groove means formed thereon for facilitating the shearing of said shaft at the position thereof, said groove means comprising at least one groove spirally formed on said shaft, said groove extending about the circumference of said shaft a plurality of times and having a pitch approximately on the order of magnitude or less than the diameter of said shaft, wherein said inner surface is smooth and of a substantially constant diameter along the entire length of said shaft and wherein said arrow includes an open front end at the forward portion of said shaft of a diameter equal to said constant diameter, and further comprising arrowhead means attached to said open front end of said arrow so as not to obstruct fluid flow thereinto, said arrowhead means comprising a sleeve affixed to said outer surface of said shaft, a substantially planar broadhead removably mountable on said sleeve, and a substantially planar blade insert oriented at right angles on said sleeve and broadhead.