Hunting arrow

• US 4,266,782 A
• Filed: 04/03/1980
• Issued: 05/12/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Michael J. Patterson
• Original Assignee: Michael J. Patterson
• Inventors: Patterson, Michael J.
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAPIRO, PAUL
• Application Number:
  US06/136,887
• Time in Patent Office: 404 Days
• Field of Search: 273/419-423, 273/416
• US Class Current: 473/586
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 6/06 Tail ends, e.g. nocks, fletching

Abstract

A hunting arrow has a shaft with a steel tip and a game penetrating two-part fletch. The first parts of the fletch are made of thin flexible razor sharpened steel that are in alignment with the remaining parts of the fletch which are usually flexible plastic or feathers. The razor sharpened steel parts of the fletch insure a large initial wound and faster kill.

Claims

1. A hunting arrow comprising a shaft, a tip on one end of said shaft and a circumferentially spaced fletch inwardly of the other end of said shaft, a notch in said other end of said shaft, said fletch comprising several angular shaped thin steel members, each having a razor sharpened leading edge, said leading edge disposed at an angle from said shaft and several flexible, thin, generally rectangular secondary members, each in axial alignment with said thin steel members and in abutment therewith.

2. The hunting arrow of claim 1 and wherein said angular shaped thin steel members and said rectangular secondary members are partially embedded in said shaft.

3. The hunting arrow of claim 1 and wherein said shaft is formed in at least two parts in end to end engagement and the angular shaped thin steel members are affixed to one of said parts and extend outwardly radially therefrom.

4. The hunting arrow of claim 3 and wherein the shaft is formed of three parts and the angular shaped thin steel members are affixed to the middle one of said three parts and the shaft parts are detachably engaged to one another.

5. The hunting arrow of claim 4 and wherein the three parts of said shaft are provided with registering threaded patterns to form said detachable attachments.

6. The hunting arrow of claim 1 and wherein said rectangular secondary members are formed of synthetic resin.