The buy

After some thought I decided to buy a Oneida Screaming Eagle for myself, the first problem is to find one that is left hand. I found mine on eBay and I can tell you it wasn't cheap, it cost me almost an arm and a leg but, if that's the bow I want, that's what I wad to do it. Maybe I could have waited and see if anything "cheaper" would show up but I decided to "hit the iron while is hot". For all the research I did an old Oneida Screaming Eagle will sell from around $200-$400, mine being a left hand was closer to $400 than from $200. It is amazing that those bows still cost this much after so much time.


So, without further delay, this is the Oneida I bought:

The patent

Today I thought that would be nice to see if I could find the patents for the Oneida bows, after some time trying to figure out how to properly search I found not one but several patents application, dating back all the way to 1976 (at least 11 years before my bow came to be):

After finding this one I found several others, related to this one:

U.S. Patent Documents

3981290	September 1976	Islas
4287867	September 1981	Islas
4781168	November 1988	Lester
4858588	August 1989	Bozek
5205267	April 1993	Burdick
5388564	February 1995	Islas
5687703	November 1997	Vyprachticky

It was interesting to see the advancements and how the timing wheel  evolved over time.


Original Patent link: 5,967,132

Cheers
 PC