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Bow string silencers for archery bows

US6237584A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 17, 1999
Grant dateMay 29, 2001
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 17, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF41B5/1407
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

String silencers for reducing the sound made when an arrow is released from a bow. These silencers are made from a material which allows the silencer to freely flex when the arrow is released and the bow string begins to vibrate. Silencers usable with conventional bow strings and with split bow strings are disclosed. Disclosed silencers for conventional bow strings have uniform and necked down configurations, and a representative, disclosed silencer for split bow strings has a center segment and integral arms at opposite ends of the center segment. With the silencer at rest, these arms extend in opposite directions from, and at equal angles to, the center segment.

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