Patent · US Expired

Vaneless arrow shaft

US5971875A · kind A · utility

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2Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMar 31, 1998
Grant dateOct 26, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 31, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF42B12/362
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

With the use of a smaller tube which fits inside the nock end of a arrow shaft and the smaller tube having molded in it spiraled grooves which acts upon dimples that are molded in the arrow shaft body and when the bowstring drives the smaller tube into the arrow shaft causeing the whole arrow shaft to spinn, the results of which allows the arrow shaft to oscillate less, fly stright without vanes, and faster with more peneration and will enter a close range target stright.

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