Crossbow bolt retention plunger
AssigneeKiller Instinct, Inc.
InventorDavid McNeil
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Abstract
A crossbow can include a bolt retention plunger configured to retain a bolt against a rail of a crossbow. The bolt retention plunger can be movable between a retention mode and a neutral mode and can be operable in the retention mode to engage a bolt to consistently and evenly hold it adjacent the rail. The bolt retention plunger can define a planar surface facing the rail. The planar surface can contact the bolt along a linear line of tangency, rather than a point, extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the bolt. The crossbow can include a safety extending in the receiver and an anti-dry fire element movably disposed in the receiver. The bolt retention plunger can be separately operable from and distal from the anti-dry fire element and the safety.
Claims20
A crossbow comprising:
- a first limb and an opposing second limb;
- a bowstring extending between the first limb and the second limb;
- a frame joined with the first limb and the second limb and including a rail, the bowstring extending transverse to the frame and moveable between an undrawn more and a drawn mode;
- a receiver joined with the frame, the receiver including a catch configured to maintain the bowstring in the drawn mode;
- a bolt retention plunger disposed adjacent the bowstring catch, the bolt retention plunger being movable between a retention mode and a neutral mode, the bolt retention plunger operable in the retention mode to engage a bolt disposed adjacent the rail, the bolt retention plunger defining a planar surface facing the rail, the planar surface configured to contact the bolt along a line of tangency in the retention mode, the line of tangency extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the bolt,
- wherein the bolt retention plunger is biased against the bolt when the bolt is extended toward the catch along the rail when the bowstring is in the drawn mode.
A crossbow comprising:
- a first limb and a second limb supported by a frame that includes a rail;
- and
- a bolt retention plunger movably disposed above the rail and operable in a retention mode to engage a bolt disposed adjacent the rail,
- wherein the bolt retention plunger defines a planar surface facing the rail and configured to contact the bolt along a line of tangency in the retention mode, the line of tangency extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the bolt.
A crossbow comprising:
- a receiver joined with a frame supporting a first limb and a second limb, the receiver including a catch configured to maintain a bowstring in the drawn mode between the first limb and the second limb;
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- a bolt retention plunger operable in a retention mode to engage a bolt disposed adjacent the rail, thereby capturing the bolt relative to the rail and forcing the bolt against the rail,
- wherein the bolt retention plunger includes a plane that faces the rail to engage the bolt along a line of tangency of the bolt in the retention mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.