Is There A Device That Holds A Bow At Full Draw

ABSTRACT

An archery bow tensioning device for property a bow string in a fully drawn position wherein 1 terminate of a rod is freely received in and releasable from a blind diameter provided in the bow handle, and the opposite end of the rod is provided with a trigger mechanism having a safety catch.

ARCHERY BOW TENSIONING DEVICE

Background of the Invention

The manual holding of a bowstring at a full draw readiness state with an arrow supported between the rest on the bow handle and its nock notched on the bowstring requires great strength on the part of the archer or bowman, particularly, if held in this state for whatever appreciable length of time resulting in the archer becoming weary, thereby affecting the accuracy of the arrow being shot. That is particularly true when the bow is a chemical compound bow.

To overcome this trouble, it has been proposed to fixedly mountain one end of a stabilizing or tension bar to the bow handle and to provide the opposite stop of the bar with a trigger mechanism for releasably holding the bowstring in the fully fatigued position. This relieves the archer from manually holding the bowstring while aiming the pointer.
While these proposed stabilizing confined and associated triggers accept been satisfactory for their intended purpose, they accept been characterized by certain disadvantages in that the confined are permanently attached to the bow handles resulting in the bows being hulky and cumbersome, and therefore non readily storable Later considerable research and experimentation, the tension device of the present invention has been devised which is freely mounted on the bow handle and releasable therefrom after the pointer has been shot; the conventional trigger mechanism has also been improved by providing a safety take hold of.

Summary of the invention

The tensioning device of the nowadays invention com prises, essentially, a rod having one end adapted to exist freely received within a recessed blind bore provided in the bow handle. The opposite end of the rod is provided with a trigger machinery having a safety latch to prevent the inadverrent shooting of an pointer. If the how handle is matte of metal, the recessed bullheaded diameter is provided by drilling a bore into the handle of the bow. If the bow is made of wood, a fitting having a recessed blind diameter is threadably mounted in the handle. Past this structure and arrangement, various types of bows can be retrofitted to accommodate the tensioning device of the present invention.