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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7241236 | Dart with dual action arrangement A dart includes a dart barrel, a shaft having a sliding end portion, and a dual action arrangement. The dart barrel has a head portion and a shaft channel coaxially extending at the head portion, and defining a head opening at the head portion to communicate with th... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7228802 | Reuseable projectile A projectile comprising a shaft hollowed at one end with a male thread at the outer, or head, end. A plurality of fins are secured around the circumference adjacent the first shaft end or base, the fins being slightly canted to cause the projectile to spin as it lea... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7201818 | Method of making arrow shaft including integral sleeve, and arrow shaft which is produced thereby In a method of making an arrow shaft, a fabric section is placed around a hollow tubular core, and is affixed thereto. The core may include carbon therein. An adhesive or protective composition, associated with the fabric, is cured to adhere the fabric to the core. ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7090196 | Method of removing a stun gun dart A method of removing a dart from an animal body. The method uses a dart removal facilitating tool that includes a handle, adapted to be grasped by a human hand. A dart removal head is attached to the handle and is adapted to be placed in proximity to the dart. The h... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7007617 | Gate assembly for tufting machine A tufting machine includes a hook apparatus, which has gates and hooks. The hook apparatus has connectors that are coupled to the gates and actuators. The actuators can be actuated to move both the connectors and gates. ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7001292 | Safety dart with woven mesh flexible tail Disclosed herein is a safety, blunt end dart having a head of frusto-conical shape having first and second ends, with the first end being of a larger diameter than the second end, and the first end includes a magnet, and a longer flexible tail is fixedly and permane... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6682448 | Play device A play device designed to be struck by various parts of the human anatomy, or with rackets or paddles, depending on the size of the play device. The tail portion of the play device, consists of a curved bell shaped structure, constructed from a suitable m... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6248033 | Darts for the game of darts A dart for the game of darts has mounting in the form of a bore (12) in the barrel (10, 31) which receives a stem part (13, 30, 44) of a point (13, 30) and/or of a shaft (44) with a flight (45). The stem part is gripped and retained by a spring clip (16) ... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6220918 | Tossable ring airfoil projectile Tossable ring airfoil projectiles configured to adopt and maintain a flying orientation that generates lift. The tossable ring airfoil projectiles generally include (i) a ring airfoil having a trailing end, an aperture, and a longitudinal symmetry axis ru... | 04/24/2001 |
| 5895331 | Custom darts and their manufacture A custom dart has a tubular body having opposite open ends and an interior wall. A nose piece closes one end of the body and a wad of relatively heavy malleable material is packed into the open end of the tube so that the material conforms substantially t... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5846147 | Bow launcher and arrow system In order to provide enhanced performance from fletching, an integral or slidable stabilizer is operatively associated with an arrow shaft. The stabilizer in either form includes a plurality of radial vanes each of which imparts aerodynamic force to the sh... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5842942 | Arrow for a crossbow An arrow for a crossbow is constructed so that it is particularly rigid and allows for an interchange of different arrow heads while exhibiting the same aerodynamic characteristics. The shaft of the arrow comprises two tubes: an interior tube which is rec... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5707307 | Business/pleasure dart A combined dart and writing implement, such as a ball point pen. Each are contained within the same housing and movable from a retracted to an extended position. When extended, their tip portion extends through an orifice in the housing. Both the dart and... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5603506 | Removable and retractable point system for a dart A novel dart is equipped with a dart point contraction system which allows the dart point to contract into the body or barrel of the dart as when the dart point impacts wire, or staples and the like which surmount boundaries of denominated regions of a da... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5505460 | Dart without rebound A dart (10) of a dart game provides a freely rotatable and reciprocating biased point (11) with a tip (12) that, when the tip (12) hits a wire mesh (W) on a normal dart board or target (T), this causes the point (11) to reciprocatingly collapse or migrate... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5419567 | Anti-bounce-back dart An improved anti-bounce-back game dart (10) is provided wherein the structure mounting the point section (22A-22G) to the body section (20A-20G) for relative axial and/or axial and rotational movement is located internally of the dart body at the rearward... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5375850 | Dart An improved dart which has a barrel provided with internally threaded ends so that a nose piece and a tailpiece can be threadably coupled to the barrel and be held snugly in place to the barrel. O-ring seals of resilient material are used to hold the nose... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5271625 | Flexible point dart A dart point for a game dart fabricated from a resin reinforced composite laminate wherein the dart point deflects around a metal rib on a dartboard when the dart point strikes the metal rib at a point off-center. Furthermore, the dart point destructively... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5269535 | Arrowhead cartridge for obstructing the direction of travel of game animals An arrowhead cartridge for generating a sound upon impact for detection by an animal, whereby to redirect the path of travel of the animal. The cartridge has a housing secured to a forward end of an arrow shaft with one or more openings therein. The housi... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5267735 | Javelin The javelin is a hand-thrown toy having a tubular fuselage. Mounted on the forward end of the fuselage are four canard planes, and mounted adjacent the rear of the fuselage are four tail planes. The forward surfaces and rear surfaces are each at a right a... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5248151 | Retractable point system for a dart A novel dart is equipped with a dart point contraction system which allows the dart point to contract into the body or barrel of the dart as when the dart point impacts wire, or staples and the like which surmount boundaries of denominated regions of a da... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5223667 | Plural piece flechettes affording enhanced penetration A flechette is disclosed comprising a rod-shaped steel body having a blunt generally conical penetrating point, a separate resinous plastic fin component securely mounted on the rear end portion of the body, and a generally conical gradually tapering resi... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5197745 | Throwing knife The throwing knife including a single blade having a blade point, a root portion connected to a handle having a butt end onto which is attached a cloth tail. Formed at the root portion of the blade are a pair of wing members which extend laterally outward... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5118117 | Recreational dart A recreational dart is described which includes a body portion or barrel which is hollow and within which there is provided a spring bias mass which exhibits a momentum during the flight of the dart towards a target. As the dart reaches the target and the... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5112062 | Safety lawn dart A safety lawn dart for use in lawn games has an elongated shaft, a cushioned, shock-absorbing head and a plurality of feathers or fins mounted for imparting rotational motion during flight. The shaft defines an axis, and one end of the shaft provides a ha... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5096211 | Dart game apparatus An elongate blow gun defined by a tubular barrel, with a concave resilient entrance ring receiving in a sealing relationship a dart member therewithin. The dart member, through pneumatic pressurization by an individual, directs the dart member as a projec... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5067728 | Lawn dart with safety feature A lawn dart having front and rear portions, the front portion comprising a cylindrically shaped, hollow member fabricated from a flexible material, such as plastic. An elongated flexible tip in first, second and third embodiments is formed as a part of th... | 11/26/1991 |
| 4997190 | Lawn dart A lawn dart which is of a two-piece construction and is molded of plastic. One piece of the lawn dart comprises a shaft having a plurality of fins formed on it (three as illustrated) for guiding the lawn dart in flight, and a blunt end which is formed to ... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4988112 | Arrow slidable blade unit An arrow having an axially elongated shaft including a mandrel at the forward end of the shaft, a blade unit, comprising a generally axially extending tubular body, and blades on and projecting outwardly from the body, the body being telescopically slidab... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4982968 | Game dart A "safety" game dart for use with a dart board having plural projecting dart-receiving fingers, includes an elongate dart body with plural guide wings at one end and a blunt non-metal tip at the opposite end. The tip is formed of an elastomer, e.g. rubber... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4946172 | Safety dart A safety lawn dart having a blunt deformable nose section. The blunt nose section is a safety feature permitting use of the lawn dart without fear of the injury associated with the use of existing lawn darts having pointed tips. A shock-absorbing telescop... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4924619 | Bowfishing barbed tip incorporating positive barb latch An improved arrow tip with locking barb is shown. The tip is drilled by two spaced holes, and a spring wire is folded into four segments. A long segment is the wire barb, the next is a rotational portion for positioning in one of the holes and the last tw... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4887822 | Outdoor game dart A kind of lawn dart, including a rotatable flight portion and weighted material being located in the front end of head member, to enable dart being able to maintain a steady flight trajectory after having been thrusted, and to enable it being able to rest... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4842285 | Anti-bounce-out dart An anti-bounce-out dart having a combination of features which reduce significantly the instances of a dart failing to stick in the dart board, particularly due to striking a wire on the dart board. This combination of features for the anti-bounce-out dar... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4840383 | Illuminated dart An illuminated dart contains a small battery and a light producing element. The light producing element may consist of a small bulb or a LED. Fiber optics may be received within the hollow transparent or translucent shaft of the dart for illuminating the ... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4775158 | Dart with flight lock A dart comprises a shaft having a flight lock for securely mounting a flight on the shaft. The flight lock comprises a threaded post extending rearwardly from the shaft body and a flight holder mounted on the post. The flight holder has a threaded axial b... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4762328 | Arrowhead with refillable cartridges for high impact arrows An arrowhead that incorporates refillable cartridges for high velocity arrows used in hunting big and small game. The unique feature of the design of this arrowhead is that the refillable cartridge spreads three splines in a flare-out type action, produci... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4697815 | Dart A dart has a cavity extending rearwardly from a front end of the main body for a predetermined distance to an end wall, and a point assembly comprises a collar detachably securable to the front end of the main body, the collar having an axially-extending ... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4596393 | Anti-bounce-back dart A game dart (10) of the anti-bounce-back type is provided for use with a dartboard (10A) having rib wires (13, 14). The game dart includes a body section (20), a point section (22) axially movable in the body section and a tail section (24) fixed to the b... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4593913 | Weighted arrowhead and method A method of weighting an arrowhead having a wall defining an interior passage and a pointed end comprising introducing an adhesive weight composition of the desired weight and in a solid state into the passage and heating the arrowhead and weight composit... | 06/10/1986 |
