Fletch check test arrow

• US 5,423,553 A
• Filed: 10/03/1994
• Issued: 06/13/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Marshall Krieg
• Original Assignee: Marshall Krieg
• Inventors: Krieg, Marshall
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAPIRO, PAUL
• Application Number:
  US08/317,113
• Time in Patent Office: 253 Days
• Field of Search: 273/416, 273/419-420, 273/423
• US Class Current: 473/586
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 6/06 Tail ends, e.g. nocks, fletching

Abstract

A fletch check test arrow comprising a short shaft with a component for blunting a forward end of the short shaft. A fletching is affixed about the short shaft near the forward end thereof. A nock is on a rearward end of the short shaft. When the nock engages a serving portion of a bowstring, it will instantly show an archer if the fletching is touching a grip portion of a bow having an arrow rest, thereby causing a very erratic flight if released.

Claims

1. A fletch check test arrow comprising:

a) a short shaft;

b) means for blunting a forward end of said short shaft;

c) a fletching affixed about said short shaft near the forward end thereof; and

d) a nock on a rearward end of said short shaft, which when said nock engages a serving portion of a bowstring, it will instantly show an archer if said fletching is touching a grip portion of a bow having an arrow rest, thereby causing a very erratic flight if released.

2. A fletch check test arrow as recited in claim 1, wherein said short shaft is of a proper length to extend across the distance between the serving portion of the bowstring and the grip portion of the bow having the arrow rest, whereby said fletching will immediately be in position without the archer having to draw back said nock on the bowstring.

3. A fletch check test arrow as recited in claim 2, wherein said blunting means is a plastic cap member having a top surface and a depending side skirt which fits over the forward end of said short shaft.

4. A fletch check test arrow as recited in claim 3, wherein said fletching includes three vanes radially attached to said short shaft near the forward end thereof.

5. A fletch check test arrow as recited in claim 4, wherein said nock includes a head having a longitudinal slot therein, in which the serving portion of the bowstring can enter said slot.

6. A fletch check test arrow as recited in claim 5, further including means between said head of said nock and the rearward end of said short shaft, for axially rotating said short shaft about said head of said nock to obtain maximum clearance of said fletching at the grip portion of the bow having the arrow rest, so that all subsequent standard arrows can be manufactured accordingly.

7. A fletch check test arrow as recited in claim 6, wherein said axially rotating means includes:

a) said short shaft being a hollow tube; and

b) a cylindrical uni-bushing press fit onto said head of said nock, whereby said cylindrical uni-bushing is inserted into the rearward end of said hollow tube of said short shaft, to allow said head of said nock to rotate three hundred and sixty degrees in clockwise and counterclockwise directions.

8. A fletch check test arrow as recited in claim 7, wherein said vanes of said fletching are in a straight formation.

9. A fletch check test arrow as recited in claim 7, wherein said vanes of said fletching are in a right helical formation.

10. A fletch check test arrow as recited in claim 7, wherein said vanes of said fletching are in a left helical formation.