ARBALEST AND CONTAINER FOR ARROWS TO IT Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: sporting equipment and means of hunting, applicable in manufacture of arbalests.

SUBSTANCE: the arbalest has a body with a rear sight and backsight positioned on it that is made in the form of a leaf, having a dovetail accommodating an optical sight, a bow with a bow-string fastened in the front part of the body, a trigger mechanism and detachable butt made of a metal rod oriented in parallel with the sight axis, whose angle between the butt axis and its supporting part makes up at least 90 deg., a check support enveloping the butt rod from the lateral sides with a comb chamfered towards the supporting part of the butt, and hinge-fastened on the butt rod for changing its orientation on the rod, the value of the vertical chamfer of the cheek support comb corresponds to the difference of the vertical levels of the sight axes of the optical sight and backsight, and the angle of the vertical chamfer makes up 20 to 40 deg. The container for arrows has a plate of metal fixed on the butt rod, the bend of the upper edge of the plate partially envelops the rod from the top outside, and the bend of the rear edge of the plate partially envelops the but base from the inside, the leaf with holes is fastened on the rear edge of the plate, their diameter corresponds to the diameter of the arrows, and their quantity - to the quantity of the held arrows, spring clamps for arrows are installed on the opposite edge.

EFFECT: enhanced convenience of use of the arbalest, reduced time of preparation to firing.

11 cl, 5 dwg