Apparatus for cleaning the nock end of an archery arrow

• US 4,866,810 A
• Filed: 08/18/1988
• Issued: 09/19/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Donald S. Kudlacek
• Original Assignee: Donald S. Kudlacek
• Inventors: Kudlacek, Donald S.
• Primary Examiner(s): MOORE, CHRISTOPHER K
• Application Number:
  US07/233,973
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 15/104.04, 15/236.06, 15/105, 30/172, 30/454, 30/455, 30/457, 30/462, 51/170 R, 51/172, 51/204, 51/205 R, 51/330
• US Class Current: 15/236.06
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 25/00 Domestic cleaning devices not provided for in other groups of this subclass for cleaning spectacles G02C13/00

Abstract

An arrow shaft nock end cleaning apparatus includes a body member having a socket in one end arranged to receive the tapered nock end portion of an arrow having its nock removed. A plurality of knurled cleaning pins are disposed circumferentially around the socket and are each arranged to present a working surface disposed angularly relative to the socket axis to closely match the external configuration of a tapered nock end portion of an arrow shaft to be cleaned. An end cap having an arrow shaft-guiding opening is arranged on the open end of the body, the cap opening disposed in alignment with the socket so as to guide an arrow shaft longitudinally thereinto. Rotation of the arrow shaft and body member relative one to the other scrapes the tapered surface of the nock end portion of the arrow shaft against the confronting working surfaces of the knurled cleaning pins, removing unwanted debris therefrom, roughing the surface area of the tapered nock end portion on the shaft, and trueing up the tapered nock end portion of the shaft in preparation of reattaching a replacement nock.

Claims

1. Apparatus for cleaning hardened glue and other debris adhering to the tapered metal nock end portion of an archery arrow shaft having the nock removed therefrom, the cleaning apparatus comprising:

(a) a body member having an open end forming a hollow socket arranged to freely receive the tapered metal nock end portion of an arrow shaft, and

(b) a cleaning head including three knurled cylindrical pins secured non-rotatably to and converging inwardly from the open end of the body member, each pin presenting a convex face twowards the center of said socket, said pins being arranged symmetrically at circumferentially spaced intervals in said socket, the nock end-contacting portions of said faces of said pins defining a surface matching the contour of a tapered metal nock end portion of an arrow shaft whereby rotation of the arrow shaft and body member relative one to the other with the adhering hardened glue and other debris contacting said knurled surface effects removal of said glue and other debris from the tapered metal nock end portion of the arrow shaft.