String mounted peep sight for archery

• US 7,621,055 B1
• Filed: 09/23/2008
• Issued: 11/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ernest Brooks
• Original Assignee: Ernest Brooks
• Inventors: Brooks, Ernest
• Primary Examiner(s): Guadalupe-McCall; Yaritza
• Application Number:
  US12/236,398
• Time in Patent Office: 427 Days
• Field of Search: 332/65, 124 86- 88, 124 90- 92
• US Class Current: 33/265
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/467 for bows

Abstract

A peep site as a sighting mechanism for an archery bow and arrow slidably mounts on an archery bow string. The peep site is self-aligning with an elastic string anchored between the peep site and an archery bow that pulls the peep site forward toward the bow when the bow string is stretched. The mount has a slot between the hole on one mount end and the other mount end to which the elastic string attaches. To install the mount the bow string is inserted through the slot and into the hole. The slot is then closed, either by one end of the elastic string looped around the mount or by a plug secured to the mount. A member with a peep hole extends from the mount such that when the mount is forward aligned and located on the bow string at a preferred position, the peep hole is in a natural, or convenient, location for the user to view a target through the peep hole. To locate the mount on the bow string at the preferred position a clip is secured firmly on the bow string. In use then, when the bow string is pulled into a cocked position, the mount slides upward into abutment with the clip at the preferred position and into forward alignment such that the peep hole is in the convenient location for the user to view the target through the peep hole.

Claims

1. A peep sight for mounting to an archery bow and bow string for aiming an arrow loaded therebetween, comprising:

(a) a clip mountable to the bow string having a clip hole through which the bow string may pass without adjustment of position between the bow string and the clip;

(b) a mount with a mount hole through the mount and a mount slot from a mount end through the mount to the mount hole such that a bow string is receivable through the mount slot and into the mount hole such that the mount is slidable in the mount hole;

(c) a peep sight member extending radially from the mount near the mount first end with a peep sight hole approximately parallel to a mount longitudinal axis through which peep sight hole a user views and aligns a target with an arrow set in the bow and the bow string in the normal manner and function of an archery bow and arrow;

(d) an elastic string with a first elastic string end secured about the mount closing the mount slot and containing a bow string therein and the elastic string secured to the bow on a second elastic string end, the string clip being positioned on the bow string such that when the bow string is pulled back to a bow cocked state ready to shoot an arrow the mount slides on the bow string into abutment with the string clip under pull of the elastic string, the clip being positioned on the bow string such that the elastic string is approximately parallel to the arrow, the elastic string stretching as the bow string is pulled back, pulling the mount into a plane defined by the bow string and the bow thereby aligning the peep sight hole parallel to the arrow.

2. The peep sight of claim 1 further comprising a mount groove circumferential around the end into which the elastic string first end is looped in securing the elastic string to the mount, preventing the elastic string from sliding off the mount when the string is stretched.

3. The peep sight of claim 1 further comprising a plug having a plug bore in the plug from a plug first end along a plug longitudinal axis, the plug bore receiving the mount end until the mount end is held in the plug bore thereby closing the mount slot to contain the bow string received therein.

4. The peep sight of claim 3 wherein the mount end comprises a pair of opposed legs on each side of the slot joined at a line of flexure such that the legs can flex about the line of flexure, the legs being urged together as they are received into the plug bore with resilient flexure, the flexure providing a capturing action between the plug and the mount legs.

5. The peep sight of claim 4 wherein the mount legs diminish in thickness from the mount hole to the mount second end such that the legs bend increasingly more from the mount hole to the mount first end.

6. The peep sight of claim 3 wherein the first elastic string end is secured to the plug.

7. The peep sight of claim 6 further comprising a plug groove circumferential around the plug into which groove the elastic string first end is looped, preventing the looped string from sliding off the plug when the elastic string is stretched.

8. The peep sight of claim 6 wherein the plug comprises a plug hole transversely through the plug near a plug second end, wherein the first elastic string end is secured to the plug through the plug hole.

9. The peep sight of claim 3 wherein the end further comprises a lip extending outward near the mount end and the plug further comprises a bore groove about the periphery of the bore such that as the end is received into the bore the lip engages the bore groove thereby preventing the plug from sliding off the end.

10. The peep sight of claim 9 wherein the lip releasably engages the bore groove.

11. A peep sight for mounting to an archery bow and bow string for aiming an arrow loaded therebetween, comprising:

(a) a clip mountable to the bow string having a clip hole through which the bow string may pass without adjustment of position between the bow string and the clip;

(b) a mount with a mount hole through the mount and a mount slot from a mount end through the mount to the mount hole such that a bow string is receivable through the mount slot and into the mount hole such that the mount is slidable in the mount hole;

(c) a peep sight member extending radially from the mount near the mount first end with a peep sight hole approximately parallel to a mount longitudinal axis through which peep sight hole a user views and aligns a target with an arrow set in the bow and the bow string in the normal manner and function of an archery bow and arrow;

(d) an elastic string with a first elastic string end secured about the mount closing the mount slot and containing a bow string therein and the elastic string secured to the bow on a second elastic string end under pull of the elastic string, the clip being positioned on the bow string such that when the bow string is pulled back to a bow cocked state ready to shoot an arrow the mount slides on the bow string into abutment with the clip, the clip being positioned on the bow string such that the elastic string is approximately parallel to the bow string, the elastic string stretching as the bow string is pulled back, pulling the mount into a plane defined by the bow string and the bow thereby aligning the peep sight hole parallel to the arrow;

(e) a mount groove circumferential around the mount end into which the first elastic string end is looped in securing the elastic string to the mount, preventing the elastic string from sliding off the mount when the string is stretched;

(f) a plug having a plug bore in the plug from a plug first end along a plug longitudinal axis, the plug bore receiving the mount end until the mount end is held in the plug bore thereby closing the mount slot to contain the bow string received therein, wherein the slot divides the mount end into opposing mount legs, the mount legs bending as they are being urged together as they are received into the plug bore with resilient flexure, the flexure providing a capturing action between the plug and the mount legs.

12. The peep sight of claim 11 wherein the mount legs diminish in thickness from the mount hole to the mount second end such that the legs bend increasingly more from the mount hole to the mount first end.

13. The peep sight of claim 11 wherein the first elastic string end is secured to the plug.

14. The peep sight of claim 13 further comprising a plug groove circumferential around the plug into which groove the first elastic string end is looped, preventing the looped string from sliding off the plug when the elastic string is stretched.

15. The peep sight of claim 13 wherein the plug comprises a plug hole transversely through the plug near a plug second end, wherein the first elastic string end is secured to the plug through the plug hole.

16. The peep sight of claim 13 wherein the mount legs further comprise a lip extending outward near the mount second end and the plug further comprises a bore groove about the periphery of the bore such that as the mount legs are received into the bore the lip engages the bore groove thereby preventing the plug from sliding off the mount legs unless the legs are urged together thereby releasing the engagement of the lip with the bore groove.

17. A peep sight for mounting to an archery bow and bow string for aiming an arrow loaded therebetween, comprising:

(a) a clip mountable to the bow string having a clip hole through which the bow string may pass without adjustment of position between the bow string and the clip;

(b) a mount with a mount hole through the mount and a mount slot from a mount end through the mount to the mount hole such that a bow string is receivable through the mount slot and into the mount hole such that the mount is slidable in the mount hole, wherein the slot divides the mount end into opposing mount legs;

(c) a peep sight member extending radially from the mount near the mount first end with a peep sight hole approximately parallel to a mount longitudinal axis through which peep sight hole a user views and aligns a target with an arrow set in the bow and the bow string in the normal manner and function of an archery bow and arrow;

(d) an elastic string with a first elastic string end secured about the mount closing the mount slot and containing a bow string therein and the elastic string secured to the bow on a second elastic string end, the string clip being positioned on the bow string such that when the bow string is pulled back to a bow cocked state ready to shoot an arrow the mount slides on the bow string into abutment with the string clip under pull of the elastic string, the clip being positioned on the bow string such that the elastic string is approximately parallel to the arrow, the elastic string stretching as the bow string is pulled back, pulling the mount into a plane defined by the bow string and the bow thereby aligning the peep sight hole parallel to the arrow, and further comprising a mount groove circumferential around the legs into which the elastic string first end is looped in securing the elastic string to the mount, preventing the elastic string from sliding off the mount when the string is stretched;

(e) a plug having a plug bore in the plug from a plug first end along a plug longitudinal axis, the plug bore receiving the mount legs until the mount legs are held in the plug bore thereby closing the mount slot to contain the bow string received therein, wherein the mount legs are received into the plug bore, the mount legs bending as they are being urged together as they are received into the plug bore with resilient flexure, the flexure providing a capturing action between the plug and the mount legs, wherein the mount legs diminish in thickness from the mount hole to the mount second end such that the legs bend increasingly more from the mount hole to the mount first end;

wherein the elastic string first end is secured to the plug.

18. The peep sight of claim 17 further comprising a plug groove circumferential around the plug into which groove the first elastic string end is looped, preventing the looped string from sliding off the plug when the elastic string is stretched.

19. The peep sight of claim 17 wherein the plug comprises a plug hole transversely through the plug near a plug second end, wherein the first elastic string end is secured to the plug through the plug hole.

20. The peep sight of claim 17 wherein the mount legs further comprise a lip extending outward near the mount end and the plug further comprises a bore groove about the periphery of the bore such that as the mount legs are received into the bore the lip engages the bore groove thereby preventing the plug from sliding off the mount legs unless the legs are urged together thereby releasing the engagement of the lip with the bore groove.