Arrow rest assembly

An arrow rest assembly for an archery bow, the arrow rest assembly comprising:

• (a) a body structurally arranged for attachment to a riser of the bow;
• (b) a launcher engaged with the body, movable between a launcher-up position and a launcher-down position, and biased toward the launcher-up position;
• (c) a lever engaged with the body, movable between a brace position and a drawn position, and biased toward the drawn position;
• (d) a launcher-lever coupler movable between coupled and decoupled arrangements and biased toward the coupled arrangement, wherein (i) with the coupler in the coupled arrangement, the launcher and the lever are constrained to move together in an aligned arrangement, (ii) with the coupler in the coupled arrangement and the lever held in the brace position against bias force thereon, the launcher is held in the launcher-down position against bias force thereon, (iii) with the coupler in the coupled arrangement and the lever in the drawn position, the launcher is held in the launcher-up position, (iv) with the coupler in the decoupled arrangement, the launcher and the lever move independently and the launcher is moved to or held in the launcher-up position by the bias force thereon, and (v) with the coupler in the decoupled arrangement, relative motion of the launcher and the lever into the aligned arrangement enables biased movement of the coupler to the coupled arrangement;
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• (e) a switch arranged so that, with the coupler in the coupled arrangement and the lever held in the brace position against the bias force thereon, manual actuation of the switch results in movement of the coupler to the decoupled arrangement against the bias force thereon and biased movement of the launcher to the launcher-up position, the switch including an actuator positioned and arranged so that, with the arrow rest assembly attached to the riser of the bow, the switch can be actuated manually by pressing against the actuator a lateral surface of a shaft of an arrow nocked or positioned to be nocked onto a bowstring of the bow.