Peel and Stick Archery Vanes

Abstract

A method of making easily removable and replaceable peel and stick archery vanes for attachment to archery arrows. Individual archery vanes are coated on the flat mounting surface of such vane with an adhesive coating. A layer of impermeable material which is removable, is then applied to the adhesive coating. When the layer of impermeable material is removed, this exposes the adhesive. The archery vane can then be attached to an arrow where there are missing or no archery vanes, by placing the adhesive coated flat mounting surface of the archery vane against the arrow shaft.

We claim: 
     
         1 . A removable arrow vane for attachment to an arrow compromising:
 a flat synthetic thin member which tapers from the greatest width being at the rear of the vane down to a point at the front of the vane with a flat mounting surface at the bottom of the vane;   an adhesive layer attached to the flat mounting surface of the vane;   which adhesive is attached to the arrow shaft by the application of pressure and bonds to the arrow shaft through the wetting by the adhesive of the surface of the arrow using weak electrostatic forces;   an impermeable material layer attached to the exposed surface area of the adhesive layer covering the entire area of the adhesive layer on the flat mounting surface, which impermeable material is removable exposing the adhesive and allowing for the attachment of the adhesive to the arrow vane;   an arrow shaft without vanes mounted on it, marked to show an area of attachment for the vane equal in size to the mounting area of the vane and parallel to the arrow shaft;   
     
     
         2 . The removable arrow vane of  claim 1  where the adhesive attaches mechanically, as it is expressed into the holes in the surface of the arrow shaft; 
     
     
         3 . The removable vane of  claim 1  where the material layer attaching to the adhesive layer is not impermeable; 
     
     
         4 . The removable vane of  claim 1  where the adhesive layer attaches chemically by chemical interaction with an adhesive layer attached to the arrow shaft; 
     
     
         5 . The removable vane of  claim 4  wherein the adhesive layer attached to the arrow shaft is covered by a removable impermeable material layer; 
     
     
         6 . The removable vane of  claim 1  wherein the adhesive layer may be removed by an application of a solvent when the arrow vane was damaged; 
     
     
         7 . The removable vane of  claim 1  where the vane may be removed by the application of heat, breaking the bond between the vane and the arrow; 
     
     
         8 . The removable vane of  claim 1  where the vane may be removed by the application of force, breaking the bond between the vane and the arrow; 
     
     
         9 . The removable vane of  claim 1  where the point of attachment of the vane is not marked on the arrow shaft.