Patent ID: 8382617

Claim:
An arrow broadhead comprising: a main body having a three-sided trocar tip, said trocar tip having three sharpened straight edges which intersect at a common vertex; and a plurality of laminar blades mountable on the main body, each laminar blade having a honed edge which is aligned with and forms a generally straight line with one of the sharpened straight edges when the blade is mounted on the main body; wherein said main body has: a generally hour-glass-shaped portion continuous with the trocar tip; a cylindrical portion continuous with said generally hour-glass-shaped portion; a rearward-facing shoulder formed at the junction of said cylindrical portion and said generally hour-glass-shaped portion; three blade installation slots, with each slot being aligned with an associated sharpened edge and positioned such that an anterior portion of the slot, which includes a forward-facing recess, is adjacent a rearmost point on the associated sharpened edge, and a posterior portion of the slot extends into the cylindrical portion; and a threaded portion continuous with said cylindrical portion for securing the main body to an arrow shaft.