Resiliently mounted stabilizer

Claim 1

A stabilizer adapted to be attached to an archery bow, said stabilizer comprising: a pedestal having one end externally threaded for threadable engagement with an archery bow, and the other end of said pedestal being internally threaded, said pedestal having a first external diameter on a major portion of said one end and a second external diameter on said other end thereof, said first diameter being larger than said second diameter, and a shoulder being disposed on an intermediate portion of said pedestal; a pedestal crown having a central opening of a diameter at least as large as said second diameter, said pedestal crown encircling said pedestal, one end of said pedestal crown being in abutment with the shoulder on said pedestal; a resilient washer having a central opening approximately the diameter of said second diameter, said resilient washer encircling said pedestal and being in abutment with the other end of said pedestal crown; a first housing, said first housing being tubular in shape and having an outer diameter and an inner diameter, said first housing having an annular inwardly extending portion integrally attached to one end of said first housing, said annular inwardly extending portion being disposed onto said pedestal in abutment with said resilient washer and spaced radially outwardly from said pedestal; a first resilient tube disposed within said first housing encircling said pedestal and having one end thereof in abutment with said inwardly extending portion on said first housing; means threadably engaged into the internally threaded other end of said pedestal for contacting the other end of said first resilient tube and thereby pushing said one end of said resilient tube against the inwardly extending portion of said first housing and further causing said one end of the first housing to be tightly pushed against the resilient washer; a second resilient tube disposed within said first housing, having one end closer to said one end of the first housing than the other end thereof; means attached to the other end of said first housing in contact with the other end of said second resilient tube to prevent said second tubular member from sliding out of said first housing; a second housing, said second housing being tubular in shape and having an outer diameter and an inner diameter, said second housing having an annular inwardly extending portion integrally attached to one end of the second housing; a second resilient washer in abutment on one end with the other end of said first housing and on the other end with said one end of the second housing; a third resilient tubular member disposed in said one end of the second housing, one end of said third resilient tubular member being in abutment with the annular inwardly extending portion on said second housing; and coupler means having one end for engagement with said one end of said second resilient tube and the other end in engagement with the other end of said third resilient tube, said coupler means including a shaft extending through said second and third resilient tubes and through said second resilient washer.