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US 8,465,384 B2Granted
Fletching sleeve system and method of application and manufacture
OwnerBen D. Blosser, Sean E. Gordoninventors
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OwnerBen D. Blosser, Sean E. Gordoninventors
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A disclosed fletching sleeve system and method of application and manufacture includes a fletching sleeve configured to frictionally fit onto an arrow shaft. The sleeve defines glue application holes and channels or cavities on an inner surface thereof adjacent the glue holes. Glue disposed on the arrow shaft at the holes is drawn into conduits formed between the channels and/or cavities with the arrow shaft. The sleeve also comprises three vanes formed integrally with the sleeve as one piece. One of the vanes may comprise a recessed surface to receive a decorating or indicia sticker flush with the vane. A collet application tool comprises two semi-cylindrical fingers extending orthogonally from a handle body, the fingers configured to hold and expand the sleeve as it and the collet are slid over the arrow nock and shaft. A dual core pin method of manufacturing enables forming a straighter sleeve and facilitates draft.
An archery fletching sleeve configured to fit around an arrow shaft, the sleeve comprising a plurality of cavities and contact portions on an inner surface of the sleeve, the cavities configured to form at least one channel together with the arrow shaft for an application of an adhesive there between and the contact portions configured to directly contact the arrow shaft, the channel(s) configured to interconnect a plurality of glue holes or portals defined in the sleeve and draw a glue applied to the holes or portals through the channel(s) via a capillary action in the formed channel(s).
An archery fletching sleeve configured to fit around a commercially available arrow shaft, the sleeve defining at least one adhesive application portal formed together with the arrow shaft to receive an adhesive during an application thereof onto the arrow shaft wherein an adhesive application portal comprises any length, radius and shape in the sleeve and be joined by a plurality of glue slots of any length formed on an inside of the fletching sleeve running longitudinally, radially and any direction from one of a portal to another portal and to a slot dead-end.
An archery fletching sleeve configured to fit around a commercially available arrow shaft, the sleeve comprising at least one adhesive application portal therein, wherein a ratio of portal area to sleeve surface area is at least one part portal area in 18.4 parts sleeve surface area, the portal(s) configured to receive an adhesive applied to the arrow shaft at the portal(s).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.