Patent ID: 6015357
Filing Date: 2000-01-18
Classification: F42B

Abstract:
A broadhead for use as both an expandable blade head and a fixed blade head, said broadhead comprising:a) a shaft;b) a blade assembly having an expanded mode and a retracted mode, and being threadably mounted to said shaft; andc) locking apparatus operatively connected to said blade assembly and selectively maintaining said blade assembly in said retracted mode, wherein said shaft comprises a shank that is elongated, slender and cylindrically-shaped, and has:i) a proximal end for releasably engaging a string of a bow; andii) a distal end with a bore that is threaded and extends axially therein and threadably receives said blade assembly, wherein said blade assembly comprises a body that is elongated, slender, and substantially cylindrically-shaped, and has a proximal end that engages said distal end of said shank of said shaft and tapers axially forwardly therefrom to a distal end, wherein said body of said blade assembly further has three slots that are equally spaced-apart, radially-oriented and extend axially from said proximal end of said body of said blade assembly, to, and opens into, said distal end of said body of said blade assembly, wherein said distal end of said body of said blade assembly has:A) a bore that extends axially therein; andB) a tab that extends axially forwardly therefrom, offset from said bore in said distal end of said body of said blade assembly, between a pair of slots of said three slots in said body of said blade assembly.