Arrow nock orientation assembly
AssigneeSaunders Archery Company
InventorCharles A. Saunders
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Abstract
An adapter for placement between to intercouple an arrow shaft with a nock for reproducibly establishing a selectable preferred orientation between a reference vane on an arrow shaft and a bowstring-receiving slot of the arrow nock which is affixed on the arrow shaft at an end thereof. The adapter and the nock carry annular markers or a scale indicia, and the adapter and nock indicia are manually rotationally displacable with respect to one another to establish selectively and reproducibly desired annular orientational relationships between the plane of a shaft-carried reference vane and a plane defined by the bowstring slot in the arrow nock. The adapter may be tapered or otherwise adapted to accommodate nocks having diameters which are less than the size of the arrowshaft.
Claims11
In combination with an arrow shaft assembly including a shaft having a cock feather or reference vane fixed thereto and extending therealong, and in which said arrow shaft terminates in an arrow nock with a bowstring-receiving slot formed therein;
- reference means for adjustably and reproducibly establishing a selectable, predetermined, annular orientational modal disposition of said bowstring-receiving slot of said arrow nock with respect to said reference vane of said arrow shaft;
- said reference means comprising
- adapter means coaxial with and interposed lineally between and intercoupling said arrow shaft with said nock,
- means for securing said adapter means to said shaft against axial separation from and against rotational displacement relative thereto,
- an arrow nock for attachment to said adapter means coaxially therewith,
- collar-like band means encircling said adapter means in an annular zone abutting said shaft,
- marker means and reference index means carried on said adapter means and on said nock,
- scale indicia means for establishing selectable relative annular positioning of said arrow nock with respect to an annular reference position delineated by said reference vane on said arrow shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.