Protective device for mounting blades on arrowhead

A hand-held protective device to facilitate the safe loading of blade elements into an arrowhead, said device comprising

• a spool-like body formed with a principal central bore extending axially into said body,
• an array of spaced blade receiving slots formed in said body, said slots communicating with and extending radially from said central bore at selectable arcuate spacings from one another within the body of said device along the length of said bore, and the arcuate spacing of said slots being in correspondence with arcuate spacing of blade elements as secured in the head of an arrow, and
• blade entry interference means in the path of insertion of a blade element into a slot of said device, for retaining said blade element in said slot,
• said blade entry interference means being carried by a wall bounding said slot and projecting into said slot and toward an opposed bounding wall thereof to provide a constricted zone in said slot in the path of entry of a blade element into said slot,
• said blade entry interference means adapted frictionally to abut against a blade at said contricted zone of said slot upon projection of said blade through said zone.