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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8128522 | Variable length fletching system and method for using the same An arrow fletching system having a continuous roll or individual lengths of base material to which is applied a series of fins or vane segments. The benefit of this fletching system is that an arrow can be fletched with an equal number of vane segments in each fletc... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8118695 | Arrow fletching The present invention is a shrinkable tube with pre-attached fletching with or without cresting. When heat is applied to the tube, it only takes seconds to shrink the tube to the arrow. The tube will shrink to a tight and secure fit on any size-hunting arrow. The fl... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8105189 | Arrow vane apparatus and method In arrows with an arrow shaft, an arrow vane apparatus includes an arrow vane for connection with an arrow shaft where the arrow vane includes an inside surface for connection with the arrow shaft. A first outer surface and a second outer surface are provided such t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8079926 | Rear mountable cutter device for a hunting arrow A rear mountable cutter device for a hunting arrow is mountable to an arrow shaft. The device includes a plurality of elongated cutting members that are positioned along the rear end of the arrow shaft following mounting of the cutter device to the shaft. The cuttin... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8038552 | Fletching for arrow Disclosed herein is fletching for an arrow, which is light and displays sufficient air resistance, thus ensuring the linear travel and stability of the flight of the arrow, being easy to attach to a shaft, and reliably maintaining the shape of the fletching. The fle... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8025596 | Micro vane and arrow with micro vane A vane, that can be mounted to a projectile to provide stability of flight, without substantially degrading speed due to added weight and/or causing clearance concerns. The vane is approximately one inch long and 0.4 inches high with a front-edge and a back-edge tha... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7993224 | Battery holder for a lighted archery nock The present invention generally relates to a lighted archery nock. The lighted archery nock generally includes an accelerometer, a replaceable battery, a light, a housing, and a microprocessor that controls illumination of the light. The microprocessor can control t... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7914406 | Arrow vane and arrow with vane A vane that can be mounted to a projectile to provide stability of flight, without substantially degrading speed due to added weight and/or causing clearance concerns. The vane is approximately 1.85 inches long and 0.465 inches high with a front-edge and a back-edge... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7892119 | Fletching system and method therefor A fletching system and method that allows for quick and easy attachment of a fletching member to an arrow shaft provides a slotted arrow shaft adapted to receive a fletching member projecting therethrough and an internal plug member disposed within a hollow center o... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7862457 | Illuminated arrow An illuminated arrow is disclosed. An illustrative embodiment of the arrow includes an elongated arrow shaft, an arrow cavity provided in the arrow shaft, a plurality of fletchings each having a plurality of strands of fiber optic cable communicating with the arrow ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7758457 | Fletching system and method therefor A fletching system and method that allows for quick and easy attachment of a fletching member to an arrow shaft provides a slotted arrow shaft adapted to receive a fletching member projecting therethrough and an internal plug member disposed within a hollow center o... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7485057 | Arrow fletching assembly An arrow fletching assembly is disclosed. An embodiment of the arrow fletching assembly may include a tubular sleeve about which a plurality of feathers or vanes may be attached. Another embodiment may include graphics printed on the tubular sleeve or on a sticker t... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7455605 | Variable length fletching system and method for using same An arrow fletching system having a continuous roll or individual lengths of base material to which is applied a series of vane segments. The benefit of this fletching system is that an arrow can be fletched with an equal number of vane segments in each fletching are... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7331888 | Folded arrow fletching A fletching for use on an arrow is provided which is formed from a flexible material provided with two or more parallel folds in which each fold opens in the opposite direction. The folds are preferably in the form of accordion folds. A plurality of the fletchings m... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331886 | Sliding arrow stabilizer An improved arrow and sliding stabilizer therefor are provided. The sliding stabilizer is used for stabilizing arrow flight, instead of fixed or glued tail feathers, vanes or other fletching. The invention improves current projectile technology with reduced assembly... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7229371 | Removable fletching for use with archery arrows A removable fletch, system utilizing the fletch, method of installing the fletch, and kit comprising the fletch and an installation jig. The fletch comprises a feather member extending from a mounting body in a first direction, and one or more locating pins and a lo... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7074143 | Arrow fletching system and method for attaching arrow fletching system to an arrow shaft A fletching system including a sleeve positionable about an outer surface of an arrow shaft and at least one archery vane mounted to an outer surface of the sleeve. The sleeve has an initial inner diameter greater than an outer diameter of the arrow shaft and the sl... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7037223 | Broadhead arrowhead Disclosed is a broadhead arrowhead. The broadhead arrowhead includes a ferrule, one end portion of which is tapered to a substantial point. One or more blade assemblies extend outwardly from the ferrule. Each blade assembly has a first substantially planar main surf... | 05/02/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6958023 | Arrow fletching An arrow fletching having a plurality of flexible vanes each having a generally tapered profile extending from a narrow end to a wide end. A kicker is integrated with a perimeter of the wide end of the flexible vane wherein the kicker includes a concave portion exte... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6918848 | Flexible broadhead arrow The invention is a broadhead arrowhead. The broadhead arrowhead includes a ferrule, one end portion of which is tapered to a substantial point. One or more blade assemblies extend outwardly from the ferrule. Each blade assembly has a first substantially planar main ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6695727 | Arrow vane device The invention is a system of arrow vanes of novel geometry. The leading edge of each vane is parallel to the long axis of the arrow shaft, and the trailing edge of each vane is deflected out of the plane of the vane like an airfoil causing rotation during... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6641493 | Method of fletching arrows with a reflective wrap A method using an existing product (50) to produce improved hunting arrowshafts (20) by wrapping a strip (51) of material (50) having an adhesive coated inner surface (52) and a reflective and/or luminous outer surface 53 around the nock portion (21) of t... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6524201 | Darts: user applied modifiable body and mechanism/s A dart includes a barrel, having a blind bore opening into one, or preferably both, ends, the bore closed by a threaded end cap with a passage therethrough, a shaft slidably received in the passage and retained in the bore by an enlarged collar at one end... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6277041 | Dart having resiliently mounted point and flight shaft, and user-modifiable body and weighting features A dart is disclosed which includes a flexibly mounted point and flight shaft. The dart includes a central tubular body which has fore and aft end caps. The fore cap includes a central bore, a forward through bore, and a socket therebetween. A point is mou... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6220978 | Arrow Fletching Arrow fletching constructed from Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) foam which is also known and commonly sold as craft foam. The arrow fletching is preferably cut from sheet stock of EVA foam to any standard or otherwise desired profile, then adhered to the sh... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6203457 | Twisted nock and feather system for archery arrows The present invention provides different embodiments of a nock and feather system which decreases the drag on an arrow in flight and reduces the cost of making an arrow. All of the embodiments employ a twist nock having a front end, a rear end and a surfa... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6142896 | Quickspin archery vane An archery vane having a first side with a first surface and an opposing second side with a second surface, the second surface having a roughness greater than the roughness of the first surface. A projection is attached to the first surface. The archery v... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6068260 | Lawn tossing game with safety hand-tossed projectile in combination with a multi-pocketed target A tossing game comprising a weighted hand-tossed projectile having a weighted safety head, a handle member projecting from a rear end of the weighted safety head and an airfoil stabilizing chute slidable coupled to the handle member and extendable immedia... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6062997 | Magnetic dart system An attractive magnetic dart system provides exciting games which are fun, educational and entertaining. Advantageously, the user-friendly system utilizes safe magnetic darts which will not harm people or damage walls, furniture, etc. surrounding the targe... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6017284 | Archery arrow shaft with reduced diameter rearward end for nock mounting A hollow archery arrow shaft has a rearward end portion which is reduced in inside diameter to frictionally receive and hold the mounting shank of a standard nock. This configuration eliminates the need for a bushing in the rearward end of the arrow shaft... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5951419 | Funnel-finn arrow fletchings/vanes An arrow having a substantially cylindrical shaft with front and rear ends. A single piece fletching mounted on the shaft adjacent the rear end thereof and the fletching having a cylindrical front part with a flared rear cone connected to the front part w... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5897449 | Stabilizing vanes for archery arrows A stabilizing vane for use with an archery arrow includes an elongate vane body with an inclined surface attached thereto. The inclined surface is confined substantially within the upper portion of the vane body spaced from the arrow shaft so as to be coo... | 04/27/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5797811 | End piece with symmetrical air foil side wings for a juggling stick A juggling stick including on each end an end piece with symmetrical air foil side wings of a closed cell foam or like material, such as leather, layered fabrics or inflatable rubber and rubber-like materials. The closed cell foam is intended to be mounte... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5642887 | Game dart with retractable flight section A game dart (10) is provided with a flight section (24) extending axially rearwardly from the rearward end (32) of a body section (20) and having at least a portion thereof (38/40) axially movable relative to the body section to minimize or eliminate boun... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5643115 | Arrow decelerator An attachable braking device for an arrow that allows passage of air through a construction in line with arrow's flight during initial thrust from a bow and then proceeds to impede that forward flight progress after the momentum has slowed by effecting a ... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5613688 | Arrow vane An arrow having a shaft that has a forward end, an oppositely disposed rearward end, a central axis and a plurality of axially elongated vanes mounted to the shaft contiguous the oppositely disposed rearward end thereof. Each vane of the plurality of axia... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5553413 | Fishing arrow and passthrough prevention devices A device for bow fishing which renders less likely an arrow will pass completely through an impaled fish. A sliding-stop is oriented on an arrow shaft forward of a drawn, cocked bow. Upon contact with the fish, a pointed head of the arrow passes into the ... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5538456 | Toy water bomb A water toy has the shape of an aerial bomb or rocket with generally bulbous, resiliently flexible body and a removable tail member with fins, The water toy includes a resilient shell having a mouth and an internal pointed member facing the mouth. A ballo... | 07/23/1996 |
