Kidde Recreation Products, Inc.

Jennings Compound Bow, Inc.

Thomas P Jennings

Gary L Simonds

Henry Gallops

Bow handle

A crossbow includes a trigger mechanism providing positive setting or cocking and release of a drawn bowstring. As the bowstring is drawn, it is pulled rearwardly into a trigger assembly slot to momentarily rearwardly deflect and ride over a spring-urged string catch member. Deflection of the catch member in turn urges displacement of a safety element into locking engagement with a pivotal sear. A nose on the locked sear normally abuts the catch member to preclude its release of a bowstring cocked therebehind. Following manual displacement of the safety to an off position, squeezing of a trigger pivotally moves the sear nose clear of the catch member to permit the cocked bowstring to forwardly deflect and pass over the catch member as the bowstring leaves the trigger assembly and propels an arrow engaged thereby.

Crossbow trigger mechanism

A compound bow includes a single, integrated cam assembly supported by the bow handle and having separate, adjacent cam elements receiving string cable segments and power cable segments from the bow limb tips. All the cam elements are fixedly disposed relative one another and are mounted for arcuate displacement as a unit. The plurality of cam elements and attendant bow structure are disposed in a manner resulting in shortened limb tip travel for a given bowstring displacement. The draw length of the bow is readily altered without dismantling the bow cable components and without any tools by removing and relocating end portions of the power cables in selected ones of a plurality of retainer pockets in the cable assembly and further draw length modification is obtainable, without changing the bow peak draw weight, through interchangable power cable cams.

Compound bow

A compound bow is provided with a hanger assembly for attaching wheels or cams and power cables to both bow limb tips and includes a pair of hanger members removably engageable with the distal portions of two split limb portions on each bow limb without the need for separate fastener members. A pair of side walls on each hanger member provide four laterally spaced apart points supporting a transverse axle adjacent each limb tip on the belly side of the limb. The axles in turn support the wheels or cams and respective ends of the power cables with the tension applied by the strung cables providing the sole force retaining each hanger assembly in place.

Compound bow with improved limb tip hanger

A compound bow, including a center handle portion, upper and lower limbs respectively attached to the upper and lower ends of the handle portion and having resilient properties, a bow string, a pair of draw cables, and coupling the bow string between the draw cables to provide a continuity between the bow string and the draw cables, a pair of draw pulleys each constructed to receive an individual one of the draw cables and each operatively coupled to an individual one of the limbs at a position near the end of the associated limb, each of the draw cables having a peripheral portion and a central portion, first and second spaced grooves in the peripheral portion and a path leading through the central portion and connecting the first and second grooves, and with the path intersecting the first and second grooves at particular points and each of the draw pulleys permitting variations of the point of intersection between the path and at least one of the first and second grooves for providing an adjustment in the draw length and the draw weight of the bow.

Compound bow with adjustable eccentric wheel

A compound bow having a center portion with a handle formed thereon, a a lower limb and an upper limb connected to the center portion and eccentrically mounted bow string pulleys mounted at the outer ends of each of the limbs for supporting a bow string. Bow string holders are supported by each of the eccentrically mounted pulleys with each of the bow string holders having a shaft that is connected at its outer end through a cable to one of the pulleys. At least a pair of bow string support members extend from either side of the shaft with the bow string support members being positioned at the inner end of the shaft. Each of the support members includes an upwardly extending outer end which is shaped and positioned to maintain a bow string between the outer end and the shaft. Thus, the end of a bow string may be readily connected to a bow string holder by passing a closed loop at the end of the bow string over one of the support members, then under the bow string holder, and then over the other of the support members.

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Sun Valley, CA, United States of America

Thomas P Jennings