Archery release
AssigneeH.I.T. Outdoors, LLC
InventorBrian K. Jones
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Abstract
An archery release including a release head, a wrist strap, a flexible connector between the head and strap, and a mounting base including a fastener that at least partially pierces the flexible connector and/or compresses the flexible connector against the mounting base to secure the flexible connector in a fixed position relative to the wrist strap. The mounting base and fastener facilitate secure adjustment of the length of the flexible connector between the wrist strap and the release head to thereby fit the stature of the archer. An archery release also is provided including a release head having a trigger stop post disposed in a trigger well and configured to impair or arrest movement of the trigger without the trigger engaging the material of the head.
Claims20
An archery release comprising:
- a release head having a longitudinal axis;
- a movable jaw joined with the release head, the movable jaw movable between a closed position and an open position, the movable jaw defining a bowstring notch configured to restrain a bowstring in the closed position;
- a wrist strap configured to engage an archer's appendage;
- a flexible connector joined with the wrist strap and extending to the release head, the flexible connector including an upper surface and a lower surface;
- a mounting base joined with the wrist strap, the mounting base including a lower portion and a bridge disposed over the lower portion, the flexible connector disposed between the bridge and the lower portion of the mounting base, the bridge extending over the upper surface of the flexible connector so that the upper surface is adjacent the bridge, the lower portion extending under the lower surface so that the lower surface is adjacent the lower portion;
- and
- a fastener extending through the bridge and directly engaging the upper surface of the flexible connector so that at least the upper surface of the flexible connector is deformed by a tip of the fastener and the flexible connector is compressed against the lower portion of the mounting base and the flexible connector is secured in a fixed orientation relative to the mounting base,
- whereby the fastener and flexible connector are adjustable to enable an archer to select a distance between the mounting base and the release head to fit the release to the archer,
- wherein the bridge is set at a fixed distance above the lower portion,
- wherein the fixed distance does not change as the flexible connector is compressed against the lower portion of the mounting base.
An archery release comprising:
- a release head;
- a wrist strap configured to engage an archer;
- a flexible connector extending between the release head and the wrist strap;
- a mounting base joined with the wrist strap and including a bridge that extends over the flexible connector;
- and
- a fastener extending through the bridge and at least partially piercing an upper surface of the flexible connector to secure the flexible connector in a fixed position relative to the mounting base;
- wherein the upper surface of the flexible connector is deformed when the upper surface is at least partially pierced by the fastener;
- wherein the bridge remains static, without being compressed against the flexible connector, as the fastener secures the flexible connector in a fixed position relative to the mounting base.
An archery release comprising:
- a release head;
- a movable jaw defining a bowstring notch that is configured to restrain a bowstring, the moveable jaw joined with the release head;
- a wrist strap configured to engage an archer, the release head joined with the wrist strap;
- wherein the release head defines a trigger well within which a trigger is movably disposed,
- wherein a trigger stop post extends through at least a portion of the release head and through at least a portion of the trigger well,
- wherein the trigger stop post is disposed transverse to a path of movement of the trigger, and configured to arrest movement of the trigger,
- whereby the trigger is impaired from slapping against the release head,
- wherein the trigger well is bounded by a first wall and a second opposing wall, and a third wall extending between the first wall and the second wall,
- wherein the trigger stop post extends from the first wall to the second wall,
- wherein the first wall defines a first hole and the second wall defines a second hole, and
- wherein the trigger stop post includes a first end disposed in the first hole and a second end disposed in the second hole, with a portion therebetween that extends through the trigger well.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.