Bowstring Nose Button for Consistent Archery Anchor Points
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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 and sight picture by contacting the archer's nose, thereby stabilizing the bow geometry and arrow trajectory.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional sighting aids are used to correlate distance with elevation angle, then the archer can estimate impact point, 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's nose at the anchor point, creating a sensory reference that feedbacks to the brain about the exact position of the bowstring relative to the face. This tactile feedback loop ensures that the anchor point position is consistently reproduced shot after shot, eliminating the variability in impact points that occurs with visual estimation alone.
Solution Approach 2:
The nose button serves as an intermediary object between the bowstring and the archer's face. Instead of relying on visual estimation of the anchor point, the nose button physically mediates the connection, providing a tangible reference point that ensures consistent bowstring-to-face contact position regardless of bow energy or other variable conditions.
2Ease of operation
If the arrow axis is offset from the line of sight, then the archer can sight along the arrow shaft, but the launch angle control must be learned by experience and is not easily transferable
Solution Approach 1:
The nose button creates a tactile feedback mechanism that provides immediate sensory information about the anchor point position to the archer's brain. This feedback loop allows archers to quickly learn and internalize the correct anchor point location without requiring extensive experience or complex visual estimation skills, making the technique more easily transferable between users.
3Reliability
If the archer relies on muscle memory for anchor point consistency, then repeated visceral learning can improve accuracy, but the process is time-consuming and not easily transferable
Solution Approach 1:
The nose button acts as a physical intermediary that externalizes the anchor point reference. Instead of relying on internal muscle memory and repeated visceral learning, the nose button provides an external, tangible reference that immediately indicates the correct anchor point position, dramatically reducing the time needed to learn and achieve consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention replaces the complex internal mechanical system of muscle memory and visceral learning with a simple external tactile reference point. The nose button provides direct physical feedback that substitutes for the time-consuming process of repeated internal conditioning, allowing archers to achieve anchor point consistency much faster.
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AI summary
A system for aiming an archery bow may include a tobe defining a longitudinal axis and may include a longitudinal slit. The tube and the longitudinal slit are configured to engage an archery bow string along the longitudinal axis of the tube. A portion of the tube may further include a projection having a curved surface and the projection may include a frustum.