Compound bow with counteracting weight
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1. A rotating member for use with a compound bow, comprising:
- a body having a rotation point for journaling the body to a bow limb, the body having a rest position and a drawn position in use with respect to the bow limb, the body including a counteracting weight constructed and arranged such that when the body returns to the rest position from the drawn position a net counteracting centrifugal force is generated acting against a forward force of the bow, wherein the body is a pulley.
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Abstract
An inventive cam body which includes a counteracting weight which generates a net counteracting centrifugal force to act against the forward force of the bow.
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1. A rotating member for use with a compound bow, comprising:
a body having a rotation point for journaling the body to a bow limb, the body having a rest position and a drawn position in use with respect to the bow limb, the body including a counteracting weight constructed and arranged such that when the body returns to the rest position from the drawn position a net counteracting centrifugal force is generated acting against a forward force of the bow, wherein the body is a pulley.
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2. A rotating member for use with a compound bow, comprising:
a body having a rotation point for journaling the body to a bow limb, the body having a rest position and a drawn position in use with respect to the bow limb, the body including a counteracting weight constructed and arranged such that when the body returns to the rest position from the drawn position a net counteracting centrifugal force is generated acting against a forward force of the bow, wherein the body is a cam. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 7)
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5. A rotating member for use with a compound bow, comprising:
a body having a rotation point for journaling the body to a bow limb, the body having a rest position and a drawn position in use with respect to the bow limb, the body including a counteracting weight constructed and arranged such that when the body returns to the rest position from the drawn position a net counteracting centrifugal force is generated acting against a forward force of the bow, wherein a sum of two sides of a right triangle defined by a bowstring contact point and the rotation point is greater than three inches. - View Dependent Claims (6, 8)
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9. A rotating member for use with a compound bow, comprising:
a body having a rotation point for journaling the body to a bow limb, the body having a rest position and a drawn position in use with respect to the bow limb, the body including a counteracting weight constructed and arranged such that when the body returns to the rest position from the drawn position a net counteracting centrifugal force is generated acting against a forward force of the bow, wherein the counteracting weight is movably mounted to the body the counteracting weight moves between a drawn position on the body and a rest position on the body to generate the net counteracting centrifugal force and wherein the body includes a counteracting weight chamber containing the counteracting weight which is held in a rest position in the chamber by gravity when the body is in the rest position and which is moved by gravity to a drawn position when the body is rotated to the drawn position, the chamber constructed and arranged such that a counteracting centrifugal force is generated acting against the forward force of the bow when the body rotates to the rest position from the drawn position, causing the counteracting weight to move from the drawn to the rest position in the chamber. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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12. A rotating member for use with a compound bow, comprising:
a body having a rotation point for journaling the body to a bow limb, the body having a rest position and a drawn position in use with respect to the bow limb, the body including a counteracting weight constructed and arranged such that when the body returns to the rest position from the drawn position a net counteracting centrifugal force is generated acting against a forward force of the bow, wherein the counteracting weight is movably mounted to the body the counteracting weight moves between a drawn position on the body and a rest position on the body to generate the net counteracting centrifugal force and wherein the counteracting weight is a movable arm mounted for rotation to the body. - View Dependent Claims (13)
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14. A compound bow comprising:
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a pair of flexible resilient first and second bow limbs, each bow limb having an inner and outer end; a handle connecting the inner ends of the bow limbs; a rotating member attached to the outer end of each bow limb; a bowstring arranged relative to the rotating members such that in use the bow has a rest position and a drawn position, wherein as the bow is moved to the drawn position by pulling the bowstring each rotating member rotates about a rotation point and the bow limbs are flexed to store energy, and wherein when the bowstring is released the rotating members rotate in the opposite direction and the bow limbs unflex, the movement of the bowstring and bow limbs creating a forward force on the bow when the bow returns to the rest position; at least one of the rotating members having a counterbalancing weight portion spaced from the rotation point of the rotating member, the rotating member being constructed and arranged to generate a counteracting centrifugal force acting against the forward force of the bow as the bow returns to the rest position. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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