Expanding broadhead
AssigneeBarrie Archery, LLC
InventorsBruce Barrie, John C. Sodaro
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Abstract
A broadhead being attachable to an arrow shaft, includes a blade support having an internal passage defined in a blade receiving body, the blade receiving body having a plurality of slots defined therein extending from the internal passage to a blade receiving body external margin and having a camming surface. A translatable ring is disposed in the internal passage, and a plurality of extendable blades, each blade being shiftably coupled to the ring proximate a blade first end and being at least partially disposed in a respective slot when in a blade retracted disposition, a blade second end being cammable outward to a blade extended disposition by interaction with the body camming surface. A method of operating an expandable broadhead is further included.
Claims20
A broadhead being attachable to an arrow shaft, comprising;
- a blade support having an internal passage defined in a blade receiving body, the blade receiving body having a plurality of slots defined therein extending from the internal passage to a blade receiving body external margin and having a camming surface;
- a translatable ring disposed in the internal passage;
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- a plurality of extendable blades, each blade being shiftably coupled to the ring proximate a blade first end and being at least partially disposed in a respective slot when in a blade retracted disposition, a blade second end being cammable outward to a blade extended disposition by interaction with the body camming surface.
A method of operating an expandable broadhead, comprising:
- defining an internal passage in a blade receiving body of a blade support, defining in the blade receiving body a plurality of slots extending from the internal passage to a blade receiving body external margin and forming a body camming surface;
- translatably disposing a ring in the internal passage;
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- shiftably coupling each blade of a plurality of extendable blades to the ring proximate a blade first end and at least partially disposing each blade in a respective slot when in a blade retracted disposition and camming outward a blade second end to a blade extended disposition by blade second end interaction with the body camming surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.