Bow sight alignment system

• US 6,134,793 A
• Filed: 04/24/1998
• Issued: 10/24/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: James C. Sauers
• Original Assignee: James C. Sauers
• Inventors: Sauers, James C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Fulton, Christopher W.
• Application Number:
  US09/065,478
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• Field of Search: 33/265, 33/286, 33/293, 33/506, 33/241, 33/234, 124/87, 273/348, 273/358, 273/405, 473/569, 473/570, 473/578
• US Class Current: 33/265
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/467 for bows
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 11/27 for testing the alignment of axes means for centering or aligning a light guide within a ferrule G02B6/3834

Abstract

A laser is adapted for attachment to an arrow such that a beam projected from the laser is colinear with an axis of a shaft of the arrow. A first target has a first marking and a second marking thereon. The first and second markings are positioned such that when the laser is attached to the arrow, and the arrow is drawn on a bow, and the beam from the laser is projected on the second marking, and a person drawing the bow visually aligns the first marking with a sighting pin and a peep sight on a string of the bow, and the bow is a first pre-determined distance away from the first target, the sighting pin is properly aligned for aiming the arrow without the laser thereon from the bow toward a second target which is positioned a second pre-determined distance away from the bow.

Claims

1. A bow sight alignment system adapted for use with a bow, an arrow and a second target, the system comprising:

a. a laser adapted for attachment to the arrow such that a beam projected from the laser is generally parallel to an axis of a shaft of the arrow; and

b. a first target having a first marking and a second marking thereon, the first and second markings positioned such that when the laser is attached to the arrow, and the arrow is drawn on the bow, and the beam from the laser is projected on the second marking, and a person drawing the bow visually aligns the first marking with a sighting pin and a peep sight on a string of the bow, and the bow is a first pre-determined distance away from the first target, the sighting pin is properly aligned for aiming the arrow without the laser thereon from the bow toward a second target which is positioned a second pre-determined distance away from the bow.

2. The bow sight alignment system of claim 1, wherein the laser comprises an elongated body having a longitudinal axis, an aperture at a first end of the body through which the beam projects in a collinear relationship to the longitudinal axis, and a connection means at a second end of the body adapted for connecting the laser to the shaft of the arrow such that the axis of the shaft is collinear with the longitudinal axis of the body.

3. The bow alignment system of claim 2, wherein the connection means is a rod adapted for insertion into the shaft.

4. The bow alignment system of claim 1, wherein the first target has indicia thereon indicating the second pre-determined distance, and indicia thereon indicating the range of bow draw weights for which the first target is useful.