Patent ID: 6968836

Claim:
A drawlock device with concurrent lock release and fire of a bowstring comprising; (a) a bar member having a slot in one exterior edge; (b) a housing assembly having a passageway therethrough slidably accepting a first portion of the bar member therein, with a bar member's second portion extending exterior thereto, the housing assembly having an external slot generally parallel to the passageway; (c) a cam member rotatably mounted interior the housing assembly's passageway, the cam member including a cradle notch therein and a protruding shoulder portion, the cam member rotatable from a bowstring accepting position with the cradle notch open to the housing assembly's external slot and the cam shoulder portion in the bar member slot, to a bowstring locked position with the cradle notch intersecting the housing assembly's external slot and the cam shoulder portion contacting the bar member's exterior edge adjacent the bar member slot; and (d) a stop, limiting movement of the housing assembly in a first direction toward the bar member's exterior second portion with the cam member in the bowstring locked position; whereby movement of the housing assembly along the bar member, in a direction opposite the first direction, allows the cam shoulder portion to enter the bar member slot, thereby rotating the cam member from a bowstring locked position to the bowstring accepting position, releasing the bowstring locked within the cradle notch.