Patent ID: 8402955

Claim:
A bow press for pressing the limbs of an archery bow to relax and permit servicing of string-tensioning components, comprising: a frame; a pair of coplanar lever arms mounted on the frame and defining a bow-receiving location therebetween, with a first bow press axis defined by a distance between the upper limb-pressing ends of the lever arms and a second bow press axis defined orthogonally to the first bow press axis through a center of the bow-pressing location; each of the lever arms comprising a lower drive end farther from the first bow press axis and pivotable on a lower drive pivot spaced from and opposite a lower drive pivot of the other lower drive end with respect to the second bow press axis, and an upper limb-pressing end nearer to the first bow press axis, the upper limb-pressing end adapted to engage a limb of a bow, each of the lever arms mounted for rotational movement on a fixed fulcrum point on the frame spaced from and opposite a fixed fulcrum point of the other lever arm with respect to the second bow press axis, each fixed fulcrum point operatively connected to its associated lever arm between the upper limb-pressing end and the lower drive end; a drive operatively connected to the lower drive ends to simultaneously rotate the upper limb-pressing ends of the lever arms on the fixed fulcrum points toward and away from the bow-receiving location; wherein the upper limb-pressing end of each lever arm is spaced inwardly relative to the bow-receiving location from its fixed fulcrum point by a fulcrum-extending arm rotatably connected to the fixed fulcrum point and non-rotatably connected to the lever arm, and wherein the fixed fulcrum point is located outwardly of the upper limb-pressing end of the associated lever arm relative to the bow-receiving location and below the upper limb-pressing end of the associated lever arm relative to the first bow press axis.