Crossbow sight mount
AssigneeKiller Instinct, Inc.
InventorDavid McNeil
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Abstract
A crossbow is provided including a barrel, a bowstring and a sight mount that surrounds the barrel. The sight mount can include a mounting rail and can be configured so that the bowstring is drawn through the sight mount during a draw cycle of the bowstring. The sight mount can form a tube with mount walls that partially and/or completely surround the barrel. The tube can include a lower mount wall and the barrel can include a lower barrel surface. The tube can be joined with the barrel via a connection between only the lower mount wall and the lower barrel surface. The barrel can be separated along its lateral surfaces from lateral mount walls of the sight mount via gaps between those elements.
Claims20
A crossbow comprising:
- a barrel having an upper barrel surface adjacent which a bolt can be movably disposed, a lower barrel surface opposite the upper surface and facing a ground surface when the crossbow is readied for firing, a first lateral barrel surface and an opposing second lateral barrel surface extending between the upper barrel surface and the lower barrel surface;
- a bowstring configured to move the bolt adjacent the upper barrel surface when the crossbow is shot;
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- a sight mount comprising a mounting rail joined with an upper mount wall, a lower mount wall opposite the upper surface and facing a ground surface when the crossbow is readied for firing, a first lateral mount wall and an opposing second lateral mount wall extending between the upper mount wall and the lower mount wall,
- wherein the first lateral mount wall is separated from the first lateral barrel surface by a first lateral gap, whereby vibration is impaired from transmission directly from the first lateral barrel surface to the first lateral mount wall,
- wherein the second lateral mount wall is separated from the second lateral barrel surface by a second lateral gap, whereby vibration is impaired from transmission directly from the second lateral barrel surface to the second lateral mount wall,
- wherein the upper mount wall and mounting rail are disposed above the upper barrel surface adjacent which the bolt can be movably positioned,
- wherein the first lateral mount wall and the second lateral mount wall are spaced a lateral width from one another so that the bowstring is drawn between the first lateral mount wall and the second lateral mount wall during a draw cycle of the bowstring.
A crossbow comprising:
- a barrel having an upper barrel surface adjacent which a bolt can be movably disposed, a lower barrel surface opposite the upper surface and facing a ground surface when the crossbow is drawn during a draw cycle of the bowstring, a first lateral barrel surface and an opposing second lateral barrel surface extending between the upper barrel surface and the lower barrel surface;
- a bowstring configured to move the bolt adjacent the upper barrel surface;
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- a sight mount comprising a mounting rail and a tube, the tube secured to the barrel and surrounding the barrel such that an upper mount wall extends above the upper barrel surface and a lower mount wall extends below the lower barrel surface, the sight mount includes a first lateral mount wall and an opposing second lateral mount wall,
- wherein the first lateral mount wall and the second lateral mount wall are spaced a first lateral width from one another so that the bowstring is drawn between the first lateral mount wall and the second lateral mount wall within the first lateral width during the draw cycle of the bowstring.
A crossbow comprising:
- a barrel adjacent which a bolt can be movably disposed;
- a bowstring configured to move the bolt adjacent the barrel;
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- a sight mount comprising a mounting rail secured to the barrel, the sight mount surrounding the barrel,
- wherein the bowstring is drawn through the sight mount during a draw cycle of the bowstring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.