Bowstring Nose Button for Repeatable Archery Anchor Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing archery sighting aids fail to consistently correlate arrow impact points with varying bowstring energy and lack transferability between users or systems, leading to inconsistent parallax and accuracy issues.
Innovation Solution
A nose button device that clamps onto the bowstring, providing tactile feedback and ensuring a repeatable anchor point, allowing archers to maintain consistent form and improve accuracy by contacting the nose for precise alignment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If existing sighting aids are used to correlate distance with elevation angle, then a sight picture can be established, but the same sight picture yields different impact points when bow energy varies
Solution Approach 1:
The nose button provides tactile feedback to the archer during the drawing process, allowing real-time adjustment of anchor point position. This feedback mechanism ensures that the archer achieves consistent anchor point contact with the nose, which directly correlates to consistent parallax and impact point, resolving the issue where the same sight picture yielded different impact points due to varying bow energy.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention replaces complex mechanical sighting systems with a simple tactile reference point (nose button) that provides direct physical feedback. This substitution eliminates the need for complex optical alignment systems while achieving greater reliability in impact point consistency through direct tactile guidance of the anchor point.
2Adaptability or versatility
If archers rely on muscle memory and visual estimation for anchor point, then form can be maintained, but transferability between users and systems is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The nose button serves as an intermediary object that mediates between the archer's body and the bowstring. It provides a universal reference point that can be consistently located on any archer's nose, enabling transferability of the anchor point technique across different users and bow systems while maintaining precise anchor point contact.
Solution Approach 2:
The nose button is designed as a universal anchor point reference that can be applied by any archer regardless of their specific bow system or skill level. This universal design enables transferability of the technique across different users while maintaining the precision needed for consistent anchor point placement.
3Ease of operation
If the bowstring is drawn to a fixed position, then the drawing process is simplified, but the anchor point and parallax cannot be consistently controlled
Solution Approach 1:
The nose button provides continuous tactile feedback during the drawing process, guiding the archer to the correct anchor point position. This feedback mechanism maintains ease of operation by providing intuitive guidance while achieving precise anchor point consistency that cannot be obtained through fixed-position drawing alone.
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AI summary
A method for aiming an archery bow includes the steps of 1) providing an archery bow having a bow string, 2) providing an aiming apparatus in which the aiming apparatus may include a beam having a longitudinal slit configured to engage the bow string along a longitudinal axis of the beam, and a portion of the beam may further include a projection having a curved surface. The projection may also include a frustum. The steps may further include 3) inserting the bow string into the longitudinal slit and positioning the aiming apparatus to a first point on the bow string so that when drawn the aiming apparatus contacts a point on an archer's nose, 4) drawing the bow string to a firing position, and 5) positioning the bow string so that the aiming apparatus contacts the archer's nose.