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US 11,555,665 B2Granted
Archery arrow puller
OwnerRonald Scott Richmondinventor
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Abstract
An archery arrow/bolt pulling device designed for the safe, easy, non-destructive and one handed extraction of deeply embedded, complete arrow or bolt assemblies regardless of shaft diameter or arrowhead type from foam and other target materials. This device pulls with three surrounding gripping jaws in a coaxial path with the long axis of the arrow/bolt and the combined mechanical advantage power of lever, fulcrum and cam while overcoming the minimal movement of the load end of the lever by means of a ratcheting pawl and toothed pull rod.
Claims18
An archery arrow puller for pulling an archery arrow or bolt from a material pierced thereby, comprising:
- a. a frame, wherein said frame comprises:
- i. a body portion comprising:
- a) a longitudinal bore;
- b) a muzzle endwall portion abutting a first end of said longitudinal bore;
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- c) a breech endwall portion abutting a second end of said longitudinal bore, wherein each of said breech endwall portion and said muzzle endwall portion is slotted so as to provide for accepting a shaft of an archery arrow or bolt to be pulled;
- and a first side of said body portion incorporates an opening which in cooperation with said slotted breech and muzzle endwall portions provides for said shaft of said archery arrow or bolt to be received within said longitudinal bore and located along a pull axis of the archery arrow puller within said longitudinal bore;
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- ii. a handle portion depending from said body portion;
- b. a jaw holder assembly configured to slide within said longitudinal bore of said body portion of said frame, wherein said jaw holder assembly comprises:
- i. a jaw holder comprising a plurality of three radial slots distributed around said pull axis, wherein each radial slot of said plurality of three radial slots incorporates a plurality of first angled jaw-clamping ramps;
- ii. a plurality of three jaws, wherein each jaw of said plurality of three jaws cooperates with a corresponding radial slot of said plurality of three radial slots of said jaw holder, each said jaw incorporates a shaft-gripping surface on a radially-inboard side of said jaw, and incorporates a plurality of second angled jaw-clamping ramps on a radially-outboard side of said jaw, said plurality of second angled jaw-clamping ramps on said radially-outboard side of each said jaw cooperate with a corresponding said plurality of first angled jaw-clamping ramps of a corresponding said radial slot in engagement therewith, so as to provide for moving said jaw radially inboard towards said pull axis responsive to a motion of said jaw holder in a first direction towards said breech endwall portion relative to said jaw, or responsive to a motion of said jaw in a second direction towards said muzzle endwall portion of said frame relative to said jaw holder;
- iii. a plurality of three bias-springs, wherein each bias-spring of said plurality of three bias-springs is operative between said jaw holder and a corresponding said jaw of said plurality of three jaws;
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- iv. a pull rod, wherein said pull rod extends through said breech endwall portion, a first end of said pull rod is operatively coupled to said jaw holder at a location within said body portion of said frame, a second end of said pull rod extends through said breech endwall portion, and said pull rod provides for pulling said jaw holder towards said breech endwall portion of said frame to pull said shaft from the material pierced by said shaft;
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- c. a squeeze-trigger-actuated ratchet mechanism that provides for engaging with and translating said pull rod so as to cause said jaw holder assembly operatively coupled thereto to translate along said longitudinal bore towards said second end thereof.
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A method of pulling an archery arrow or bolt from a material pierced thereby, comprising:
- a. placing of a longitudinal bore of a frame of an archery arrow puller around a shaft of an archery arrow or bolt to be pulled from the material pierced thereby, wherein the operation of placing said longitudinal bore of said frame of said archery arrow puller around said shaft comprises sliding slotted portions of muzzle and breech endwall portions of said frame over said shaft with said muzzle endwall portion of said frame facing said material pierced thereby, wherein said slotted portions of said muzzle and breech endwall portions are aligned with and surround a pull axis of said archery arrow puller;
- b. biasing each jaw of a plurality of three jaws in a first direction towards said muzzle endwall portion of said frame with a corresponding associated spring-bias force, wherein each jaw of said plurality of three jaws is operatively associated with a corresponding radial slot of a plurality of radial slots in an associated jaw holder within said longitudinal bore of said frame, each said jaw is located along a different radial axis relative to one another at a corresponding different angular position about said pull axis so as to provide for clamping said shaft between said plurality of three jaws when said jaws are moved radially inwards towards said pull axis, each said jaw comprises a shaft-gripping surface on a radially-inboard side of said jaw, and a plurality of first angled jaw-clamping ramps on a radially-outboard side of said jaw, each said corresponding radial slot incorporates a plurality of second angled jaw-clamping ramps that cooperate with corresponding said plurality of first angled jaw-clamping ramps on said radially-outboard side of said jaw in engagement therewith, so as to provide for moving said jaw radially inboard towards said pull axis responsive to a motion of said jaw holder in a second direction towards said breech endwall portion relative to said jaw, or responsive to a motion of said jaw in said first direction towards said muzzle endwall portion of said frame relative to said jaw holder;
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- c. moving said jaw holder toward said breech endwall portion of said frame, thereby causing each said jaw to move radially inwards towards said pull axis and thereby clamp against said shaft responsive to the action of said plurality of first angled jaw-clamping ramps of said each said jaw sliding relative to corresponding said plurality of second angled jaw-clamping ramps associated with said corresponding radial slot while simultaneously causing each said jaw to move towards said breech endwall portion and thereby extract said shaft from said material pierced thereby following contact of said muzzle endwall portion of said frame with a surface of said material pierced by said shaft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.