Patents by Inventor Gregory E. Summers
Gregory E. Summers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20130092139Abstract: A quick release buckle includes male and female members which are fastened together via a hinge connection. The male member includes a laterally extending pin which fits within a recess in the top front portion of the female member. The recess includes and undercut portion for receiving and retaining the male member pin. Both members include laterally extending top bars on the upper surfaces thereof. Pinching the top bars together releases the male member pin from the female member recess to unfasten the buckle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Marc T. Rentz, Daniel E. Ellgass
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Publication number: 20120285431Abstract: A back-tension archery release includes a handle with an adjustable sear housing and an adjustable finger. The handle has a longitudinal axis. The sear housing is adjustable about an axis normal to the longitudinal axis to eliminate twist or torque in a bowstring loop connected with the release. The finger is adjustable about the longitudinal axis to increase or decrease the speed of the release and provide an improved ergonomic feel to the user. In addition, the finger is removable from the handle so that differently configured fingers may be substituted by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Marc T. Renz
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Patent number: 8176644Abstract: An archery sight can include a scope with a Venturi-like inner opening, smaller in diameter at a narrow position and increasing in diameter toward each end, to provide a circular field of view through a range of off-axis angles. Archery sights with pins, such as extending into a scope, can include sight pin components that include bodies, tube-like parts extending to sight pin ends, optical fibers in the bodies and tube-like parts, and flexible, light-transmissive tubing that engages the bodies and surrounds the fibers along most of their exterior length. Each tube-like part can be attached to its body by inserting it into a portion of the body that surrounds it and then bending the portion of the body to produce one or more bends or kinks but without reducing inside diameter, so that a fiber can then be threaded through the tube-like part.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Daniel Edward Ellgass
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Patent number: 8171648Abstract: An archery sight can include a scope with a Venturi-like inner opening, smaller in diameter at a narrow position and increasing in diameter toward each end, to provide a circular field of view through a range of off-axis angles. Archery sights with pins, such as extending into a scope, can include sight pin components that include bodies, tube-like parts extending to sight pin ends, optical fibers in the bodies and tube-like parts, and flexible, light-transmissive tubing that engages the bodies and surrounds the fibers along most of their exterior length. Each tube-like part can be attached to its body by inserting it into a portion of the body that surrounds it and then bending the portion of the body to produce one or more bends or kinks but without reducing inside diameter, so that a fiber can then be threaded through the tube-like part.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2011Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Daniel Edward Ellgass
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Publication number: 20110277329Abstract: An archery sight can include a scope with a Venturi-like inner opening, smaller in diameter at a narrow position and increasing in diameter toward each end, to provide a circular field of view through a range of off-axis angles. Archery sights with pins, such as extending into a scope, can include sight pin components that include bodies, tube-like parts extending to sight pin ends, optical fibers in the bodies and tube-like parts, and flexible, light-transmissive tubing that engages the bodies and surrounds the fibers along most of their exterior length. Each tube-like part can be attached to its body by inserting it into a portion of the body that surrounds it and then bending the portion of the body to produce one or more bends or kinks but without reducing inside diameter, so that a fiber can then be threaded through the tube-like part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Daniel Edward Ellgass
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Patent number: 7654254Abstract: Bowstring release is accomplished with systems, apparatus, devices, products, and methods. A system can, for example, include a release component that can hold and release bowstrings, a light component that can emit light, and a connecting component that can connect the release component and the light component. The light component can, for example, emit predominantly blue, green, or red light to preserve night vision. The release and light can be connected by a handle structure with two telescoping parts whose length can be adjusted to fit one's hand. A bowstring release can pivot or be fixed in position relative to a handle structure. A glove-like structure can have a finger opening and an attached tube-like structure adjacent to the finger opening; in use, the tube-like structure contains the handle structure, which is held by fingers extending through the finger opening. The handle structure can also fit into a concho-type grip.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Inventors: Marc T. Rentz, Gregory E. Summers, Randy V. Summers
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Patent number: 7610686Abstract: A device can include a support structure to be supported on a bow and that, through other structures and components, can support a viewing part such as an archery sight. For example, the support structure and a structure movable in an elevation direction can have paired guide surfaces that slide against each other, with opposite sets of guide surfaces having effective spans within a stable range despite a user pressing on one side, as in coarse adjustment. Guide surface shapes can allow only negligible relative movement, as with V-shapes. Gibs can be on guide surfaces, with some gibs adjustable to compensate wear, such as with springs. Also, a structure movable in a windage direction can have tapered bushings around guide pins that extend through them and can receive pressure from a spring-like component such as a spring wave washer. And a removable scope mounting device can have parts allowing adjustment around two axes.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2007Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Daniel Edward Ellgass
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Patent number: 6953035Abstract: A device to hold and release a bowstring includes a part that can be locked, held in position, or caused to move with a user-held portion such as a handle. A back tension release device can, for example, include a handle portion; a release assembly on the handle portion with a part of the release assembly able to pivot relative to the handle portion; and a locking mechanism. A user holding the handle portion, with the release assembly holding a bowstring, can control the locking mechanism. When unlocked, the locking mechanism allows the part to pivot, but, when locked, the locking mechanism locks it so that the part moves with the handle portion. The part can, for example, be a pawl head that, when locked, moves with the handle and releases a sear element.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2004Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Marc T. Rentz, Randy V. Summers
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Patent number: 6895951Abstract: A triggerless back tension release for use with a bow string comprising a handle; a release head assembly including a rope loop and a first component pivotally mounted relative to a portion of the handle, the first component carrying a sear element having a sear edge and a hook adapted for receiving the rope loop; a locking rod located in the handle portion and actuated by a lever in the handle portion to engage and lock a second component of the release head assembly relative to the handle portion, the second component arranged to interact with the sear edge and to release the sear element and thereby release the bow string upon movement of the handle portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2003Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Marc T. Rentz, Randy V. Summers
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Publication number: 20040079351Abstract: A triggerless back tension release for use with a bow string comprising a handle; a release head assembly including a rope loop and a first component pivotally mounted relative to a portion of the handle, the first component carrying a sear element having a sear edge and a hook adapted for receiving the rope loop; a locking rod located in the handle portion and actuated by a lever in the handle portion to engage and lock a second component of the release head assembly relative to the handle portion, the second component arranged to interact with the sear edge and to release the sear element and thereby release the bow string upon movement of the handle portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2003Publication date: April 29, 2004Applicant: Gregory E. SummersInventors: Gregory E. Summers, Marc T. Rentz, Randy V. Summers
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Patent number: 6647976Abstract: A triggerless back tension release for use with a bow string includes a handle portion with a post extending substantially perpendicularly away from the handle portion; and a two-link release head assembly secured to a free end of the post remote from the handle portion. The two-link release head includes an intermediate link pivotably mounted on the post and a forward link pivotably mounted to the intermediate link. A rope loop having two free ends is secured to the forward link. A sear is pivotably secured to the forward link, the sear having a hook adapted to receive the rope loop. A substantially triangularly shaped pawl is fixed to the intermediate link and arranged to engage an edge of the sear and to release the sear upon relative movement between the pawl and the sear.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2002Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Marc T. Rentz, Randy V. Summers
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Patent number: 6584966Abstract: A triggerless back tension release for use with a bow string includes a handle portion including at least two finger grooves with a post extending substantially perpendicularly away from the handle portion; a two-link release head assembly secured to a free end of the post remote from the handle portion, the two-link release head including an intermediate link pivotably mounted on said post and a forward link pivotably mounted to said intermediate link; a rope loop having two free ends secured to the forward link; and a sear pivotably secured to the forward link, the sear having a hook adapted to receive the rope loop. The free ends of the rope loop are secured to the forward link at a location closely adjacent the hook and forward of the pivot axis, such that, when the rope loop is wrapped about a bow string and slipped over the hook, a gap between doubled-back strands of the rope between the bow string and the release head remains substantially constant or increases in a direction toward the bow string.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2001Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Marc T. Rentz, Randy Summers
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Patent number: 6571786Abstract: A triggerless back tension release for use with a bow string includes a handle portion including at least two finger grooves with a post extending substantially perpendicularly away from the handle portion; a two-link release head assembly secured to a fork rotatably secured in the post for rotation about a longitudinal axis of the post, the two-link release head assembly including an intermediate link pivotably mounted on said fork and a forward link pivotably mounted to said intermediate link; a rope loop having two free ends secured to the forward link; and a sear pivotably secured to the forward link, the sear having a hook adapted to receive the rope loop.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2001Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Marc T. Rentz, Randy Summers
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Publication number: 20030094166Abstract: A triggerless back tension release for use with a bow string includes a handle portion with a post extending substantially perpendicularly away from the handle portion; and a two-link release head assembly secured to a free end of the post remote from the handle portion. The two-link release head includes an intermediate link pivotably mounted on the post and a forward link pivotably mounted to the intermediate link. A rope loop having two free ends is secured to the forward link. A sear is pivotably secured to the forward link, the sear having a hook adapted to receive the rope loop. A substantially triangularly shaped pawl is fixed to the intermediate link and arranged to engage an edge of the sear and to release the sear upon relative movement between the pawl and the sear.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2002Publication date: May 22, 2003Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Marc T. Rentz, Randy V. Summers
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Publication number: 20030029428Abstract: A triggerless back tension release for use with a bow string includes a handle portion including at least two finger grooves with a post extending substantially perpendicularly away from the handle portion; a two-link release head assembly secured to a fork rotatably secured in the post for rotation about a longitudinal axis of the post, the two-link release head assembly including an intermediate link pivotably mounted on said fork and a forward link pivotably mounted to said intermediate link; a rope loop having two free ends secured to the forward link; and a sear pivotably secured to the forward link, the sear having a hook adapted to receive the rope loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2001Publication date: February 13, 2003Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Marc T. Rentz, Randy V. Summers
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Patent number: 6484710Abstract: A bowstring release includes a main body portion; a pair of jaws pivotably mounted within the housing for movement between closed and open positions; a piston and firing pin assembly slidably mounted in the housing and biased in a firing direction by a first spring, the piston and firing pin assembly operatively connected to the jaws; a cocking slide mounted for sliding movement along a top surface of the housing, the cocking slide engageable with the piston for moving the piston to a cocked position; a sear pivotably mounted within the housing, one end of which is engageable with the piston; and a trigger pivotably mounted in the housing, the trigger having a projection engageable with an opposite end of the sear; the sear biased against the projection in a non-firing direction by a second spring; the projection, when the trigger is pulled, moving the sear in a firing direction to enable the one end to disengage the piston and thereby permit the piston and firing pin assembly to move forward in a firing direType: GrantFiled: February 2, 2001Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Marc T. Rentz
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Patent number: 6481431Abstract: A bowstring release glove includes an elongated wrist wrap portion adapted to surround and be detachably secured to a user's wrist; a palm grip portion carrying a bowstring release, the palm grip portion fixedly secured at one end to the wrist wrap portion and detachably secured at an opposite end to the wrist wrap portion. The palm grip portion and the bowstring release are movable between operative and inoperative positions while the wrist wrap portion remains secured to the user's wrist.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2001Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Inventor: Gregory E. Summers
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Patent number: 6446620Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2001Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Marc T. Rentz
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Patent number: 6205991Abstract: A bowstring release includes a release body having a pair of jaws actuated by an adjustable trigger; and a wrist strap operatively connected to the release body by an elongated link threadably connected at one end to the release body and at an opposite end to the wrist strap. A connector extends between the link and the wrist strap, and is pivotally mounted to the wrist strap.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2000Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Inventors: Gregory E. Summers, Randy V. Summers, Marc T. Rentz
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Patent number: 5937841Abstract: A connector for a bowstring release wrist strap includes a barrel portion having a first end adapted to receive a fastener component mounted on the bowstring release, and a second end receiving a slidable and axially adjustable link rod, the link rod rotatable relative to the barrel portion and having a distal free end adapted for connection to a wrist strap.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1998Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: Gregory E. SummersInventors: Gregory E. Summers, Randy Summers, Marc Rentz