Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for holding an arrow in a pulled bow and which releases the arrow when the bow is pulled slightly beyond the position in which the arrow is held. This is accomplished by a support attached to the bow which carries a movable arrow-holding bar having a point-receiving indentation. This bar is movably mounted to shift from an arrow-holding position in front of the point of the arrow in the pulled bow to a second position out of the path of the arrow. Trigger members are carried by the support immediately forward of the bow to move the bar into the path of the arrow, and a spring device is provided to bias the bar out of the path of the arrow so that the arrow will be freed of the obstruction provided by the bar when the point of the arrow is pulled out of the indentation. When the bar is positioned to the rear of the bar, and when an arrow guide is positioned at the rear of the support, short arrows which do not reach the bow when the string is fully pulled can be used.

Abstract: A flexible drywall contouring and joint finishing tool is constituted by an elongated strip of spring sheet metal which is longitudinally bent to provide an elongated flexible straight-edged smoothing blade and a spring handle constituted by a handplate connected to said blade by a relatively large diameter bend providing a spring action and a stiffening element connected to said handplate by a relatively small diameter bend providing a finger-grasping edge.