Adjustable cable anchors for a compound bow

Claim 1

In a two-wheel type compound bow having two eccentric wheels mounted on shafts journalled in the outer ends of the bow limbs and wherein a pair of cables each having one end connected to one end of a bow string and extending therefrom over an adjacent eccentric wheel and thence along the belly side of the bow to an opposite end thereof to an anchored end; the improvement comprising a pulley mounted for rotation on each of said shafts for the friction free extension of the anchored end portions of said cables to the back side of said bow, and a screw threadedly adjustable anchoring device mounted on the back side of each bow limb, said anchoring devices each comprising a body member mounted in fixed position on the back side of a bow limb spaced from the outer end thereof, each of said body members having an upstanding portion with opposite sides and a smooth bore extending therethrough from side to side, a screw in said bore projecting from opposite sides of said upstanding portion and being guided for longitudinal movement in said bore, said screw having a cable end attached to one projecting end, a nut threadedly engaged on said other projecting end portion of said screw and abutting the adjacent side of said upstanding portion, and a low friction washer between said nut and said upstanding portion whereby said cables may be adjustably anchored without twisting by rotation of said nut.