Graphite arrow and method of manufacture
OwnerGlen E. Thurberinventor
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Abstract
A graphite archery arrow having an elongate shaft, a fletching portion at the end of the shaft, and a tip portion at the opposite end of the shaft, the shaft consisting of a number of graphite fibers longitudinally oriented along the shaft; a number of graphite fibers biased to the longitudinally oriented graphite fibers; and a binder holding together the longitudinally oriented graphite fibers and the biased graphite fibers. The arrow may also have a tapered portion and a parallel portion.
Claims10
A graphite archery arrow having an elongate shaft, a fletching portion at a first end of the shaft, and a tip portion at a second end of the shaft, the shaft comprising:
- (a) a plurality of graphite fibers longitudinally oriented along the shaft;
- (b) a plurality of graphite fibers biased to the longitudinally oriented graphite fibers;
- (c) a binder holding together the longitudinally oriented graphite fibers and the biased graphite fibers;
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- (d) the shaft further comprising a parallel portion adjacent the second end and a tapered portion between the parallel portion and the first end, the diameter of the tapered portion gradually and continuously decreasing from the parallel portion and further comprising a second parallel portion at the first end forming the fletching portion.
A graphite archery arrow having an elongate shaft, a fletching portion at a first end of the shaft, and a tip portion at a second end of the shaft, the shaft comprising a parallel portion adjacent the second end and a tapered portion between the parallel portion and the first end, the diameter of the tapered portion gradually and continuously decreasing from the parallel portion and further comprising a second parallel portion at the first end forming the fletching portion.
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