Patent ID: 8356416
Filing Date: 2013-01-22
Classification: F41G

Abstract:
1. A sight pin for an archery bow sight, the sight pin comprising a sight pin member having a proximal end, a distal end, a forward-facing surface, a rearward-facing surface, a pair of opposed transverse-facing surfaces joining the forward- and rearward-facing surfaces, and an integrally formed fiber channel, wherein: (a) the fiber channel is arranged to receive an optical fiber and to position a distal segment of the optical fiber so that a substantial portion of light emergent from a distal end of the optical fiber is directed in a rearward direction from a sight reference point on the rearward-facing surface near the distal end of the sight pin member; (b) the fiber channel is further arranged to hold the optical fiber in a curvilinear arrangement routed through the sight pin member; (c) at least a portion of the fiber channel comprises (i) a row of discrete passages through the sight pin member that connect the opposed transverse-facing surfaces, (ii) a first row of discrete depressions formed on a first one of the opposed transverse-facing surfaces, and (iii) a second row of discrete depressions formed on a second one of the opposed transverse-facing surfaces; and (d) each depression joins an adjacent pair of the passages and has a depth that is (i) less than a length of each of the joined passages and (ii) greater than half that length.