Backpack-style firearm/bow/fishing rod carrier
OwnerGregory M. Homeyerinventor
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Abstract
A "backpack"-style carrier for transporting sporting equipment such as a rifle, a shotgun, an archery bow, or a fishing rod. The butt end of the rifle stock, the pulley end of a compound bow, or the handle grip of a fishing rod is disposed in the device's lower "pocket". The barrel, the upper bow limb, or the upper fishing rod portion is held in place by an upper strap which closes with a hook and loop fastening system. Shoulder straps attached to the device allow the sporting equipment to be carried "backpack"-style, in a vertical position. An optional waist belt provides additional stability.
Claims5
An assembly for carrying a firearm, a bow, or one or two fishing rods, said assembly comprising:
- (1) a flexible main strap with an upper end folded over and attached to itself to form an upper loop, and with a lower portion turned upward to approximate a J-shape terminating in a tag lower end;
- (2) a circular strap perpendicularly disposed to said main strap and attached to said main strap near the lower end and also attached at a second point 180.degree. removed to said tag lower end of said main strap;
- (3) a flexible enclosing strap, an end of said enclosing strap having been inserted through said upper loop, and both ends of said enclosing strap then fastened to each other with releasable fastening means;
- (4) a pair of upper shoulder straps, an end of each of said upper shoulder straps having been attached to a back flat side of said upper end of said main strap, and another end of each of said upper shoulder straps having a coupling means attached thereto;
- (5) a pair of lower shoulder straps, an end of each of said lower shoulder straps having been attached in a spaced apart relationship to a back flat side of said circular strap, and another end of each of said lower shoulder straps having been respectively inserted into said coupling means on each said end of each of said upper shoulder straps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.