Bowstring release device
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1. In a bowstring release device for engaging and releasing a bowstring, the improvement which comprises:
- bowstring-engaging and releasing latch means adapted to engage and release a bowstring;
trigger means for actuating said latch means having a spring, a movable finger piece normally spring-biased by a spring to a forward position and adaped to be pulled back to said rearward position by a finger of the archer;
complementary detents on said trigger means and said latch means which are engaged in the rearward position of said finger piece to hold said latch means in bowstring-engaging position and which become disengaged when said finger piece is released and allowed to be moved toward the forward position by said spring, thereby allowing said latch means to move to bowstring-releasing position; and
,casing means for holding said trigger means and said latch means in operative position.
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Abstract
There is disclosed an archery release mechanism for releasing the bowstring of a free-standing bow in which a latch mechanism for latching onto the bowstring has a wrist band for attaching it to the wrist of the archer. The latch mechanism has a trigger adapted to engage the latch mechanism and hold it in latching position when the trigger is fully retracted so that the bowstring is released when the trigger is released. The latch mechanism is constructed also so that the latching mechanism is held in latch position when the trigger is not retracted so that the bowstring can be released by a pull of the trigger.
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1. In a bowstring release device for engaging and releasing a bowstring, the improvement which comprises:
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bowstring-engaging and releasing latch means adapted to engage and release a bowstring; trigger means for actuating said latch means having a spring, a movable finger piece normally spring-biased by a spring to a forward position and adaped to be pulled back to said rearward position by a finger of the archer; complementary detents on said trigger means and said latch means which are engaged in the rearward position of said finger piece to hold said latch means in bowstring-engaging position and which become disengaged when said finger piece is released and allowed to be moved toward the forward position by said spring, thereby allowing said latch means to move to bowstring-releasing position; and
,casing means for holding said trigger means and said latch means in operative position. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A bowstring release device for drawing and releasing a bowstring, which comprises in combination:
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a bowstring draw and release mechanism which comprises a finger piece spring-biased to forward position and means adapted to maintain said mechanism in bowstring-drawing mode when the finger piece is pulled back and in bowstring-releasing mode when said finger piece is released; attaching means for attaching said mechanism to the wrist of the archer in a position relative to said mechanism such that the finger piece can be held back by one or more of the archer'"'"'s fingers and such that when a bowstring is drawn, the stress of holding a bowstring in drawn position is borne substantially completely by said attaching means and substantially the only stress on the fingers in pulling back a bowstring is that engendered by the spring-biasing of the finger piece and the archer effects release of a bowstring by the same general type of motion of the fingers that is used in drawing and releasing a bowstring by the fingers in the usual manner.
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14. An archery release device for drawing and releasing a bowstring, which comprises:
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a latch mechanism for engaging a bowstring during the draw; trigger means for actuating said latch means having a movable finger piece normally spring-biased to a forward position and adaped to be pulled back to a rearward position by a finger of the archer; and means for holding said latch mechanism in latched position when said finger piece is in the rearward position but in release position when said finger is in the forward position, whereby the archer draws a bowstring with the finger piece pulled back to the rear position and releases a bowstring by releasing the finger piece.
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