Abstract: A peep sight is a tubular element installed in a bowstring. When drawn, the natural twist of the bowstring may fail to align the peep sight with the other sighting structures on the bow. The invention provides a simple, low-cost, and easily installed bead which, when inserted into a bowstring in the vicinity of the peep sight, may be easily adjusted to bring the peep sight into proper alignment. Once properly adjusted and secured to the bowstring, the inventive peep tuner acts to reliably and repeatably counteract the change in helical twist of the bowstring strands and bring the peep sight to its desired orientation when the bowstring is fully drawn. The bead may also be installed elsewhere along the bowstring as a draw timer to take up excess bowstring length which would pay out unequally during a draw if left uncorrected.

Abstract: A bowstring silencer for mounting to a bowstring, buss cable or the like, includes a central body portion and a pair of arm portions that extend in opposite directions from the central body portion. A locking flange is associated with one of the arm portions and is adapted to extend through an opening in the central body portion when the silencer is installed. The first and second arm portions extend asymmetrically with respect to the central body portion prior to attachment to a bowstring, buss cable or the like, and extend at least generally symmetrically after attachment thereto.

Abstract: A bow energy transfer system includes a pair of helically wound springs positioned on the bowstrings on either side of the bowstring nock point; the springs are secured to the bowstring with a serving thread wound between the individual coils into contact with the bowstring. The springs flex perpendicular to their longitudinal axes during discharge of the bow causing energy to temporarily be stored in the flexed spring to be returned to the arrow or bolt later in its discharge.

Abstract: A bowstring sound dampener is disclosed. The dampener comprises a sleeve and a piston. The sleeve is generally cylindrical with a frustoconical first end adapted to threadedly receive a mounting rod for connecting the dampener to a bow. The sleeve comprises a second end which is flared outwardly with a pair of generally V-shaped grooves formed diametrically therein creating a pair of diametrically opposed arms. The sleeve is configured to matingly receive the piston therein. The piston is formed as a generally cylindrical member having a pair of grippers extending therefrom on one end with a groove formed therebetween. The grippers flare outwardly from the piston in a diametrically opposed configuration and are mounted to the piston such that the grippers move inwardly when the piston enters the sleeve, thereby grasping the bowstring, and outwardly when the piston exits the sleeve, thereby releasing the bowstring.

Abstract: A bow string vibration and noise damper includes an aperture and a body portion. The string vibration and noise damper is configured to be mounted on the bowstring. In this way, a closed loop is created by inserting at least a portion of the body portion through the aperture. The closed loop encircles a portion of the bowstring thereby attaching the string vibration and noise damper to the bowstring.

Abstract: An archery bow comprises an archery bow body defining opposing limb tips, a bowstring extending between the limb tips along a bowstring axis, and an elongate member extending from the bow body, the elongate member having a length and a proximal end arranged adjacent the bowstring. The archery bow further comprises a dampening element made of a vibration dampening material mounted to the proximal end of the elongate member between the proximal end and the bowstring. The elongate member extends from the bow body along a first axis non-perpendicular to the bowstring axis. Additionally, the elongate member may be curved along at least a portion of its length. In certain embodiments, the archery bow body defines a nested mounting area configured as an open channel to receive a distal end of the elongate member.

Abstract: A bow string vibration and noise damper includes an aperture and a body portion. The string vibration and noise damper is configured to be mounted on the bowstring. In this way, a closed loop is created by inserting at least a portion of the body portion through the aperture. The closed loop encircles a portion of the bowstring thereby attaching the string vibration and noise damper to the bowstring.

Abstract: Archery bow string dampers and peep sights comprised of a rigid ellipsoidal inner core and an elastomeric outer surface are disclosed.

Abstract: An archery peep sight is disclosed that combines integrally a bowstring dampener and a peep sight.

Abstract: A noise reducing bowstring suppression device consisting of an individual length of pliable material supported between dual support members mounted on a bow, a bowstring on the bow contacting the pliable material when the bow is shot.

Abstract: A cable guard eliminator for a compound bow comprising a first limb and a second limb and having a bowstring and at least one cable strung between first and second connecting elements respectively mounted near outer ends of the first and second limbs. The cable guard eliminator comprises a first portion from which the cable extends to the first connecting element, a second portion from which the cable extends to the second connecting element, and, an intermediate portion defining a deflection area between the first end and the second end. The deflection area has a length in a direction generally parallel to the cable at least as long as a range of motion of the cable, such that at least some portion of the deflection area remains aligned with an arrow path throughout drawing and release of the bowstring.

Abstract: A vibration absorber for an archery bow including a hollow, elongated cap open at both ends, a first dampening plug inserted into one of the ends of the cap and a second dampening plug inserted to another end of the cap and coupled to the first dampening plug within the cap. Typically the cap is made from a stiff material and the first and second dampening plugs are made from elastic material with the same or different elasticities.

Abstract: Archery bow string dampers and peep sights comprised of a rigid ellipsoidal inner core and an elastomeric outer surface are disclosed.

Abstract: An archery bow comprises an archery bow body defining opposing limb tips, a bowstring extending between the limb tips along a bowstring axis, and an elongate member extending from the bow body, the elongate member having a length and a proximal end arranged adjacent the bowstring. The archery bow further comprises a dampening element made of a vibration dampening material mounted to the proximal end of the elongate member between the proximal end and the bowstring. The elongate member extends from the bow body along a first axis non-perpendicular to the bowstring axis. Additionally, the elongate member may be curved along at least a portion of its length. In certain embodiments, the archery bow body defines a nested mounting area configured as an open channel to receive a distal end of the elongate member.

Abstract: An archery bow comprises an archery bow body defining opposing limb tips and a bowstring extending between the limb tips. The archery bow includes an elongate member extending from the bow body, the elongate member having a length and a proximal end arranged adjacent the bowstring. Additionally, the archery bow includes a dampening element made of a vibration dampening material mounted to the proximal end between the proximal end and the bowstring, the dampening element having a contact face adapted to contact the bowstring. In certain embodiments, the dampening element includes a laterally protruding rib extending outward from the contact face along at least a portion thereof to engage the bowstring when the bowstring is released.

Abstract: A bow string vibration and noise damper includes an aperture and a body portion. The string vibration and noise damper is configured to be mounted on the bowstring. In this way, a closed loop is created by inserting at least a portion of the body portion through the aperture. The closed loop encircles a portion of the bowstring thereby attaching the string vibration and noise damper to the bowstring.

Abstract: A bowstring suppressor for an archery bow including a suppressor assembly and/or a bowstring attachment element. The assembly can include a housing within which resilient elastomeric elements are located. A push rod can be telescopically joined with the housing and located near the resilient elements. An engagement element can be joined with the push rod and can be engaged by a bowstring when an arrow is shot from the bow. The push rod can move toward the resilient elements and compress them when the bowstring engages the engagement element. Compression of the resilient elements provides energy absorption, vibration absorption and/or dampening in relation to energy generated by the bow. A string attachment element can be joined with the bowstring and can engage the suppressor assembly, with the attachment element seating in and optionally deforming the engagement element, which in turn, restrains lateral and vertical movement of the bowstring.

Abstract: An archery bow having a riser, a pair of flexible limbs extending from the riser, with each limb having a rotating member on an axel secured to the end thereof. At least one of the rotating members is a cam having a module secured thereto. The module is positionable with respect to the cam by translational movement and is also positionable on the cam with an opposite face against the cam to selectively provide a desired draw length.

Abstract: An archery peep sight is disclosed that combines integrally a bowstring dampener and a peep sight.

Abstract: An archery bow comprises an archery bow body defining opposing limb tips and a bowstring extending between the limb tips. The archery bow includes an elongate member extending from the bow body, the elongate member having a length and a proximal end arranged adjacent the bowstring. Additionally, the archery bow includes a dampening element made of a vibration dampening material mounted to the proximal end between the proximal end and the bowstring, the dampening element having a contact face adapted to contact the bowstring. In certain embodiments, the dampening element includes a laterally protruding rib extending outward from the contact face along at least a portion thereof to engage the bowstring when the bowstring is released.

Abstract: An archery bow comprises an archery bow body defining opposing limb tips, a bowstring extending between the limb tips along a bowstring axis, and an elongate member extending from the bow body, the elongate member having a length and a proximal end arranged adjacent the bowstring. The archery bow further comprises a dampening element made of a vibration dampening material mounted to the proximal end of the elongate member between the proximal end and the bowstring. The elongate member extends from the bow body along a first axis non-perpendicular to the bowstring axis. Additionally, the elongate member may be curved along at least a portion of its length. In certain embodiments, the archery bow body defines a nested mounting area configured as an open channel to receive a distal end of the elongate member.

Abstract: String and cable silencers for reducing the sound generated when an arrow is released from a conventional archery bow or compound archery bow. The silencers are made from a soft rubber type material that absorbs and dampens the vibrations when the bowstring or cables begin to vibrate. Disclosed silencers will fit any conventional strings or cables as well as split bow strings and split cables, since they fit around the outside diameter of the bow strings or cables. The string and cable silencers can be fastened to the stings or cables by tying on with string or by using small zip ties placed over the ends of the string and cable silencers. The string and cable silencers have a central hub with four equal arms that extend out perpendicular to the string or cable with round balls molded on the ends of the arms.

Abstract: A crossbow (10) includes a barrel (11) which carries a bow (13) which includes limbs (15, 16) having outer ends (17, 18). A bowstring (22) is carried between the limb ends (17, 18) and is movable between a relaxed position and a cocked position. When so moving, the cables (23, 24), which are part of a compound rigging system (19), and which extend between the limb ends (17, 18), will want to vibrate causing an undesirable noise. But such is thwarted or otherwise minimized by tubular sheaths (27, 28) positioned around the cables (23, 24) to engage the cables (23, 24).

Abstract: String and cable silencers for reducing the sound generated when an arrow is released from a conventional archery bow or compound archery bow, or when an arrow is fired from a conventional crossbow or compound crossbow. These silencers are made from a soft rubber type material that absorbs and dampens the vibrations when the bowstring or cables begin to vibrate. Disclosed silencers will fit any conventional strings or cables as well as split bow strings and split cables, since they fit around the outside diameter of the bow strings or cables. The string and cable silencers can be fastened to the strings or cables by tying on with string or by using small zip ties placed over the ends of the string and cable silencers. The string and cable silencers have a central hub with four equal arms that extend out perpendicular to the string or cable with round balls molded on the end of the arms.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a cable guard for use with a compound bow, the compound bow having a handle portion and a pair of opposite bow limbs, a first and a second cable which cross one another in extending between opposite bow limbs and a bowstring, the cable guard comprising: a rod having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the rod is attach to the handle portion of the compound bow; a housing disposed at the second end of the rod; a pair of swing arms extending opposite to each other and outwardly from the housing in the direction of the bow limbs, the pair of swing arms pivotally connected about a point near one end of the housing; a biasing means in contact with the other end of the housing and the second end of the rod; and wherein when the bowstring is drawn to a draw position, the swing arms move in the direction of the bowstring moving the housing in the direction of the handle compressing the biasing means.

Abstract: A traveling bowstring vibration dampener for use in a compound bow is moveable in response to the draw and release of the bowstring.

Abstract: A traveling bowstring vibration dampener for use in a compound bow is moveable in response to the draw and release of the bowstring.

Abstract: A bowstring silencer includes a weight component and a silencer component, the silencer component secured to the weight component and including a plurality of relatively flexible projections; the weight component adapted to be clamped about a bowstring. The weight component may be formed as a pair of generally semi-spherical ball halves that are secured together about the silencer component and a bowstring by suitable fasteners.

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.

Abstract: A device adapted for attachment to a compound archery bow to dampen bowstring vibration includes paired straight arms that are urged together by spring action. The facing surfaces of the arms carry cushioning material adapted to embrace the bowstring in the undrawn state of the bow. A cam-activated trigger lever prys the arms apart as the bowstring is drawn. When the bowstring is released, the trigger allows the arms to close again upon the bowstring.

Abstract: A string silencer for an archery bow is fashioned from double-faced fleece polyester fabric. It is formed as a rectangular sheet with matched sets of legs extending oppositely from a body portion. The body portion is inserted on a parting plane between equal portions of a bowstring. Individual pairs of legs are tied in alternating fashion to the respective bowstring portion.

Abstract: A stabilizer for use with a firing weapon to reduce the effect resulting from firing such firing weapon, the stabilizer having a tube with a first and second end and a tube opening extending a distance therethrough generally between the first and the second ends thereof, and hydraulic fluid being disposed within and substantially filling the tube opening. Closure means substantially closes the first and the second ends of the tube for cooperating to retain the hydraulic fluid within the tube opening and a piston is disposed in the tube opening with the piston being movable in a first direction generally from the first end toward the second end of the tube and in the second direction generally from the second end toward the first end of the tube. A first spring is disposed within the tube opening having one end engageable with one end of the piston and the opposite end engageable with the portion of the closure means closing the first end of the tube.

Abstract: A silencer for reducing the noise made by an archery bow wherein elastic members each have one end attached to a bow string at a point on the bow string spaced nearer to the outer end of the limbs than to the center nocking point of the string and also having the other end thereof secured to a respective adjacent limb at a point intermediate the ends of the limb.

Abstract: An archery silencer for use on the string and/or cable of an archery bow in which a plurality of lengths of fibrous material is secured to a flexible support. The silencer is connected to the string and/or cable adjacent each end of the string or cable to dampen the vibration of the string and/or cable and therefore reduce the sound caused by the vibrating bow string and/or cable. Preferably, the lengths of fibrous material are positioned closely together in a plane generally parallel to each other and the flexible support is a narrow elongate support positioned transverse to the lengths of material and secured to the material approximately midway between the ends of the lengths. Preferably, each end of the support extends beyond the lengths of the material for attachment of each end to the string and/or cable of the bow. Each end of the support may be longitudinally split for providing ends which can be tied to the string and/or cable.

Abstract: Preferably two bow string silencers, each comprising an elongated rectangular strip of flat flexible, resilient material having a multi-point contact with a bow string and including a multiplicity of discrete energy dissipating members formed along the opposite elongated sides are attached to each bow string. The silencers have very small volume and weight and are constructed from high strength material so as not to interfere with the throw of the arrow, can be readily adjustable along the bow string to locate for maximum energy attenuation and will resist being torn off by repeated throwing of arrows.