Patent Publication Number: US-11022412-B2

Title: Morris 80 plastic apollo bolt

Description:
RELATED APPLICATIONS 
     Provisional Application No. 62/419,431 
     Filing Date: Nov. 8, 2016 
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     BACKGROUND 
     This plastic pistol crossbow bolt is made for the fifty to eighty pound pistol crossbows. It is nine and one quarter inches in length with a threaded tip to receive a metal point. Total length of this bolt will depend on the length of any metal point used. This new bolt solves many problems often found with the restricted uses of the bolts commonly used with pistol crossbows. 
     The commonly used pistol crossbow bolts are about six inches in length. Those short bolts cause lack of visibility during flight, difficulty in locating upon impact and irretrievability of those short bolts after impact into any standard target. For that reason, those short pistol crossbow bolts cannot be used for any tournament competition, small game hunting, pistol crossbow fishing or pistol crossbow scuba fishing. The MORRIS 80 PLASTIC APOLLO BOLT solves those problems. 
     Any pistol crossbow bolts, made of metal and designed with sufficient length to solve some of the above stated problems, require some type of fetches be attached to those bolts for stability during flight. During use, those fletches often becomes loosened and requires constant reattachment and repair. That becomes is a major problem with the metal pistol crossbow bolts. The MORRIS 80 PLASTIC APOLLO BOLT is a one piece solid plastic unit including two wings and a tail for stabilization. It does not require added fletches be glued into place or continued reattachment of fletches. 
     SUMMARY 
     A plastic pistol crossbow bolt created by injection mold. Bolt composition is durable plastic with nylon reinforcement. Bolt is nine and one quarter inches in length. Bolt is designed with two wings to stabilize bolt elevation and a tail to stabilize directional flight. Bolt has a threaded tip designed to extend past the barrel end and, use a variety of metal points included target, hunting, fishing and field points. No other pistol crossbow bolt is designed with two rounded wings and a tail and, use this variety of points. This plastic pistol crossbow bolt, with its extended length, unique design and versatility in point usage, is designed to totally change and enhance the way any pistol crossbow is used. 
    
    
     
       DESCRIPTION 
         FIG. 1  shows the pistol crossbow bolt of the present invention viewed from above. 
         FIG. 2  shows the pistol crossbow bolt of the present invention viewed from side. 
         FIG. 3  shows the pistol crossbow bolt of the present invention viewed from tip end. 
         FIG. 4  shows a three dimensional view of the pistol crossbow bolt of the present invention. 
         FIG. 5  shows a three dimensional line drawing of this invention viewed from above. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
       FIG. 1  shows the pistol crossbow bolt ( 1 ) is nine and one quarter inches in length. The bolt is a solid durable light weight plastic with nylon reinforcement. Bolt includes two rounded wings, ( 2 ), a shaft and a threaded tip ( 6 ) to receive a variety of metal points. Each wing ( 3 ) is tapered from five-sixteenths of an inch width down to approximately one-sixteenth of an inch width starting three-quarters of an inch ( 4 ) from the nock end down the length of the five inch wing. The tail starts two and three sixteenths of an inch from the nock end ( 5 ). 
       FIG. 2  shows the tail ( 7 ) is three and one half inches long. The tail is three-sixteenths of an inch tall and tapered down on each end. It shows a treaded tip on one end ( 8 ) and the nock ( 9 ) on the other end.  FIG. 3  shows the tail ( 10 ) is one-sixteenth of an inch thick. The bolt shaft ( 11 ) is five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter and is dowel shaped. Each of the two side wings are rounded ( 12 ) and becomes level with the top of the shaft.