US 4,054,288 AGranted

Foam plastic archery target with internal frame

OwnerRonald E. Perrine, Sr.inventor

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Abstract

An archery target having a backstop provided with markings representing a game animal, and the like, for forming a target area on the backstop. By constructing the backstop as a rectangular parallelepiped, markings can be provided on a pair of parallel faces in order to afford a choice of targets and to reduce wear on the backstop. The latter is enhanced by including in the markings designation of areas which are the primary target area in the animal, and by offsetting these designated areas from one another. The backstop is anchored at a desired location by a pair of rods extending through holes provided in the backstop and inserted into the ground or other support surface. An elastic element stretched between the rods above the backstop holds the backstop firmly in place relative to the internal frame formed by the rods.

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Dependent claims

An archery target comprising, in combination:

a. a backstop provided with markings forming a target area;
and
b. anchor means engaging the backstop for releasably retaining the backstop at a predetermined location, the backstop being in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped constructed from a foam material and provided with a pair of spaced, parallel through holes, with the anchor means including a pair of rods disposed in the holes and insertable into a support surface on which the backstop is arranged, said pair of rods disposed in said holes substantially perpendicular to the support surface, and the anchor means further including an elastic element detachably attached to and arranged extending between the rods, the parallelepiped arranged between the elastic element and the support surface, with the elastic element biasing the rods toward one another in order to bias the parallelpiped toward the support surface.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.