EP3812688A1

EP3812688A1 - Archery finger tab

Info

Publication number: EP3812688A1
Application number: EP19215528.1A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Jong Dae Baek
Original assignee: Fivics Co Ltd
Current assignee: Fivics Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-10-21
Filing date: 2019-12-12
Publication date: 2021-04-28
Anticipated expiration: 2039-12-12
Also published as: CN112755497B; KR102187412B1; CN112755497A; EP3812688B1

Abstract

The invention relates to an archery finger tab that can reduce awkwardness while an archer draws and releases the bowstring and support an archer's hand that draws a bowstring. A characteristic configuration of the invention includes an archery finger tap comprising: a body part (12) that has a plate shape one surface of which face a palm and has a first guide rail (16), having a length in a forward-rearward direction, formed at a rear part thereof; a mount (18) that has a plate shape, is guided or fixed/unfixed by a first fastening part (20) with respect to the first guide rail, is rotatable about the first fastening part, and is provided with a first hinge part (24) disposed in the forward-rearward direction at a lower part; and a little finger support (28) that has a plate shape, is provided with a second hinge part (30) on an upper side thereof, is fixed or unfixed by a second fastening part (32) in a state where the first hinge part and the second hinge part are disposed in a straight line, and is rotatable about the second fastening part.

Description

[Technical Field]

The present invention relates to an archery finger tab, and particularly, to an archery finger tab that can reduce awkwardness while an archer draws and releases the bowstring and support an archer's hand that draws a bowstring.

[Background Art of the Invention]

In general, archery actions consecutively include setting corresponding to a ready posture, nocking that is an action of nocking an arrow in a bowstring, hooking that is an action of hooking archer's fingers on the bowstring, drawing for equally pushing and drawing the bow and the string, holding that is an action immediately before shooting, releasing that is an action of releasing the string to shoot the arrow, and follow-through that is a final action that is naturally performed as a result of the release.
During these actions, finger tabs are used as aids that protect archer's fingers until a bowstring is drawn and naturally released.
Finger taps have a profound effect of maintaining the balance of power of a hand that draws the bowstring similarly to touching the bowstring against the archer's nose and lips in order to allow an archer to take a concentrated and consistent posture for aiming without being disturbed in posture during the releasing process.
In addition, individual archers have different shapes of hands that draw a bowstring with their fingers hooked on the bowstring, hooking angles at which the bowstring is drawn are different, and forces exerted on each hand are differently exerted on respective parts of the hand, including the fingers.
The archers have to steadily release the bowstring during shooting. However, if the hooking action is unstable, it is not possible to steadily release the bowstring. This causes problems such as the vibration of the bowstring, the resulting unstable shaking of an arrow, and the deviation of the arrow from the aimed target.
That is, the unnaturalness of an archer's hand during the hooking action makes the posture of the archer's hand unstable, and the unstable hand posture leads to inconsistent shooting.
In most of the finger taps currently on the market, support plates are manufactured at right angles. Therefore, there is an inconvenience that archers should adapt the archers' hands and hooking actions to the finger taps instead of adapting the finger taps to their hooking positions.
The cause of this problem can be found in that the archers have different finger lengths and thicknesses, and the spreading degree of respective fingers and the bending degree of the fingers in a natural state vary.
Therefore, the finger tabs should be able to cope with the archers' most comfortable hand shapes and habits.

[Related Art Document]

[Patent Document]

Korean Registered Utility Model No. 20-0327875 (Published on September 26, 2003)
Korean Registered Patent No. 10-1573847 (Published on December 02, 2015)
Korean Registered Patent No. 10-1843851 (Published on March 30, 2018)
Korean Registered Patent No. 10-1876321 (Published on July 09, 2018)

[Summary of the Invention]

[Problems that the Invention is to Solve]

The invention has been made in order to solve the problems of the related art and satisfy the needs thereof, and an object thereof is to provide an archery finger tab that allows an archer to change and fix the vertical position and the supporting angle of a part for supporting an archer's little finger in order to cope with individual archer preferences, such as the shape and length of little fingers, the bending shape and degree of the little fingers, and the supporting area of the little fingers, so as to match individual archers' most natural hand shapes and habits.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

In order to achieve the above object, a characteristic configuration of the archery finger tab according to the invention includes an archery finger tap comprising: a body part that has a plate shape one surface of which face a palm and has a first guide rail, having a length in a forward-rearward direction, formed at a rear part thereof; a mount that has a plate shape, is guided or fixed/unfixed by a first fastening part with respect to the first guide rail, is rotatable about the first fastening part, and is provided with a first hinge part disposed in the forward-rearward direction at a lower part; and a little finger support that has a plate shape, is provided with a second hinge part on an upper side thereof, is fixed or unfixed by the second fastening part in a state where the first hinge part and the second hinge part are disposed in a straight line, and is rotatable about the second fastening part.
In addition, the mount may be formed by forming a second guide rail having a length in the upward-downward direction intersecting the first guide rail, the fixing by the first fastening part may be performed by pressing the body part and the mount at an intersection position between the first guide rail and the second guide rail against each other so as to in close contact with each other, and the fixing by the second fastening part may be performed by pressing an end part of the first hinge part and an end part of the second hinge part facing the second hinge part against each other so as to be in close contact with each other.
Also, the first fastening part may include a bolt and a nut that press the body part and the mount by screwing with the body part and the mount interposed therebetween, and a first elastic member may be further provided to apply a frictional force depending on the degree of screwing between the bolt and the nut to a pressed part facing the mount.
In addition, the second fastening part may include a bolt and a nut for pressing the first and second hinge parts by screwing with the first hinge part and the second hinge part interposed therebetween, and a second elastic member may be further provided to apply a frictional force depending on the degree of screwing between the bolt and the nut to a pressed part facing the second hinge part.

[Advantages of the Invention]

According to the configuration of the invention described above, there is an effect of providing a stable release of the bowstring by adjusting the forward-rearward position, height position, and forward-rearward and leftward and rightward inclination of the little finger support in response to the length of each archer's little finger and the habit of each archer including a bending shape to allow the archer's little finger to be supported, thereby eliminating the unnaturalness of the archer's little finger to prevent resulting distraction of the archer' mind.

[Brief Description of the Drawings]

Fig. 1 is an exploded perspective view schematically illustrating components of an archery finger tab according to the present invention and a coupling relationship between these components.
Fig. 2 is a view schematically illustrating an installation state of a mount and a little finger support of Fig. 1 and an operational relationship therebetween.
Fig. 3 is a rear view schematically illustrating an operational relationship of the little finger support according to the installation state of Fig. 2
Fig. 4 is a sectional view schematically illustrating a modified example of a first guide rail and a first fastening part.

[Detailed Description for Carrying Out the Invention]

In describing the invention, the expression "upper side" or "upper part" will be described as referring to a direction opposite to the direction of gravidity with respect to the center of each component of the invention or a component part that is present in the opposite direction, and the expression "lower side" or "lower part" will be described as referring to a direction opposite to the direction indicated by the expression "upper side" or "upper part" or a part that is present in the opposite direction.
In addition, in describing the invention, the expression "front side" or "front part" will be described as referring to a direction in which an archer views on the basis of a general posture in which the archer performs a release, or a component part that is present in the direction, and the expression "rear side" or "rear part" will be described as referring to a direction opposite to the direction indicated by the expression "front side" or "front part" or a part that is present in the opposite direction. Since a leftward-rightward direction can be differently expressed depending on the right-handed and left-handed, the leftward-rightward direction will be expressed as both sides, one of both the sides will be expressed as one side, and the other side will be expressed as the other side.
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
As illustrated in Fig. 1, an archery finger tab 10 according to an embodiment of the invention has a plate-shaped body part 12 one surface of which faces the palm of the archer, and a tab member 14 is installed on the front side of the body part 12 so as to nock a bowstring instead of archers' fingers.
In addition, the body part 12 forms a first guide rail 16 having a length in a substantially forward-rearward direction at a lower part, i.e., a part corresponding to an archer's little finger.
As illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3, the first guide rail 16 may have a hole shape passing through of the body part 12 from one side to the other side.
However, the first guide rail is not limited to the hole-shaped one, and as illustrated in a section in Fig. 4, the first guide rail may be formed in the shape of a groove (F) that has a depth from side 2 toward side 1 with respect to the body part 12' and is increased in width in a depth direction.
The first fastening part 20 ' corresponding thereto may be slidably moved or fixed by fitting a head part of a bolt 20a' having a shape corresponding to the above-described groove F and fastening a nut 20 b' from the other side.
Meanwhile, as illustrated in Fig. 1, a mount 18, 18' facing the first guide rail 16 has a plate shape that faces the first guide rail 16 and the surface of the body part 12 at a peripheral edge thereof and has a fastening hoe 22, 22' formed at a position corresponding to the first guide rail 16.
The fastening hole 22, 22' is formed in a hole shape having a length in the upward-downward direction in correspondence with the first guide rail 16 having a length in the forward-rearward direction, or may be formed in a hole shape through which the bolt 20a of the first fastening part 20 to be described below passes.
In addition, the mount 18, 18' has a first hinge part 24, which is disposed in the forward-rearward direction, formed at a lower edge.
The first hinge part 24 may be formed in a sleeve shape having a hollow cavity in the forward-rearward direction.
The mount 18, 18' formed in this way is installed in the body part 12 by locating the fastening hole 22, 22' in correspondence with the above-described first guide rail 16a and by fixing the mount and body part at an intersection position between the first guide rail and the fastening hole with the first fastening part 20, 20'.
The first fastening part 20 may be fixed or unfixed in such a manner that the nut 20b is located to prevent the rotation of the first fastening part with respect to the first guide rail 16 on one side of the body part 12, and the body part 12 and the mount 18, 18' placed between the bolt and the nut are pressed depending on the degree of fastening of the bolt (20a) to the nut from the other side.
Here, a first elastic member 26 for applying a frictional force depending on the degree of the pressing may be installed at a position where the pressing is performed while facing the mount 18, 18', and various types of rubber or disk springs may be used as the first elastic member 26.
The first elastic member 26 applies a frictional force such that the mount 18, 18' is movable and rotatable with respect to the body part 12 due to a physical force in a state where the first elastic member is partially elastically deformed in response to the fastening force of the first fastening part 20, 20 ', and thereby, allows the archer to temporarily adjust the position of the mount 18, 18' that fits his/her own little finger.
When the mount 18, 18' is located from the above process, the first elastic member 26 applies a frictional force for suppressing the movement and rotation of the mount 18, 18' with respect to the body part 12 as the fastening force of the first fastening part 20, 20' is increased.
A little finger support 28 provided with a second hinge part 30 formed in a sleeve shape similarly to the first hinge part 24 formed in a plate shape on one side is installed in the first hinge part 24 of the above-described mount 18, 18'.
Such a little finger support 28 is installed in a such manner that the first and second hinge parts 24 and 30 are fixed and unfixed by fastening a second fastening part 32 passing through hollow cavities thereof in a state where the first hinge part 24 and the second hinge part 30 are disposed in a straight line, and thereby, is pivotable at a lower end part thereof around the second fastening part 32.
Additionally, the second fastening part 32 may include a bolt 32a passing through the hollow cavities with the first hinge part 24 and the second hinge part 30 interposed therebetween, and a nut 32b screwed to the bolt 32a.
In addition, a second elastic member 34, which applies a frictional force to a pressed part facing the second hinge part 30 due to the pressing by the second fastening part 32 depending on the degree of the pressing, may be further installed in the configuration of the second fastening part 32.
Similarly to the first elastic member 26 mentioned above, the second elastic member 34 functions to adjust the pivoting angle of the little finger support 28 temporarily before being completely fixed by the second fastening part 34.
As described above, the little finger support 28 is a part where the archer's little finger is put, is pivotable in the forward-rearward direction from a fixed position by the first fastening part 20, 20', and is pivotable in both side directions at the lower end thereof from a fixed position of the second fastening part 32.
In addition, the little finger support 28 is slidingly movable in the forward-rearward direction in a longitudinal direction of the first guide rail 16 before being fixed by the first fastening part 20, 20'.
Therefore, the little finger support 28 can support archer's little fingers in response to archers having different little finger lengths, having different little finger bending degrees, and having different personal preferences.

[Reference Signs List]

10:: finger tap
12, 12':: body part
14:: tab member
16:: first guide rail
18, 18':: mount
20, 20':: first fastening part
22, 22':: fastening hole
24:: first hinge part
26:: first elastic member
28:: little finger support
30:: second hinge part
32:: second fastening part
34:: second elastic member

Claims

An archery finger tap comprising:
a body part that has a plate shape one surface of which face a palm and has a first guide rail, having a length in a forward-rearward direction, formed at a rear part thereof;

a mount that has a plate shape, is guided or fixed/unfixed by a first fastening part with respect to the first guide rail, is rotatable about the first fastening part, and is provided with a first hinge part disposed in the forward-rearward direction at a lower part; and

a little finger support that has a plate shape, is provided with a second hinge part on an upper side thereof, is fixed or unfixed by the second fastening part in a state where the first hinge part and the second hinge part are disposed in a straight line, and is rotatable about the second fastening part.
The archery finger tap according to claim 1,
wherein the mount is formed with a second guide rail having a length in the upward-downward direction intersecting the first guide rail,
wherein the fixing by the first fastening part is performed by pressing the body part and the mount at an intersection position between the first guide rail and the second guide rail so as to be in close contact with each other, and
wherein the fixing by the second fastening part is performed by pressing an end part of the first hinge part and an end part of the second hinge part facing the second hinge part against each other so as to be in close contact with each other.
The archery finger tap according to claim 1 or 2,
wherein the first fastening part includes a bolt and a nut that press the body part and the mount by screwing with the body part and the mount interposed therebetween, and
wherein a first elastic member is provided to apply a frictional force depending on the degree of screwing between the bolt and the nut to a pressed part facing the mount.
The archery finger tab according to claim 1 or 2,
wherein the second fastening part includes a bolt and a nut for pressing the first and second hinge parts by screwing with the first hinge part and the second hinge part interposed therebetween, and a second elastic member is provided to apply a frictional force depending on the degree of screwing between the bolt and the nut to a pressed part facing the second hinge part.