Cable guard for compound bow

Claim 1

In a cable guard for use with a compound archery bow and including a bow-handle-mounting bracket and cable guard rod means carried thereby, said rod means being adapted for engaging and deflecting cable strands of the compound bow physically to prevent interfering contact of the cable strands with an arrow during impelling flight of the arrow from the bow and obviating impairment of true flight of an arrow released from the bow, said mounting bracket including means for supporting said cable guard rod means in stable relationship therewith to extend essentially transversely of the cable strands and proximate thereto, the improvement comprising rod adjustment means for selectively regulating the extent to which said cable guard rod means deflects the cable strands through controlled displacement of the strands from an arrow show movement path delineated by a zone established by an arrow nocked on a bowstring of a compound bow and readied for a shooting sequence, said adjustment means comprising an intermediate lineal segment of said rod means joined to and interposed between a freely extending section of said rod means and a bracket-secured section of said rod means held by said mounting bracket, said intermediate lineal segment of said rod means comprising offset means for establishing distinct but essentially parallel longitudinally extending axes of rotation for said freely extending section and for said secured section of said rod means, said bracket means clamping said rod means for selective rotational positioning to render a rotational axis of said freely extending section of said rod means eccentric with respect to a longitudinal axis of said secured section of said rod means, thereby to permit selectable degrees of lateral displacement of the cable strands as said freely extending section of said rod means is brought to bear against and shift the cable strands from an arrow flight zone.