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United States Patent No. 2423765 Archery Bow by W M Folberth Et Al Filed March 1 1945 framed orrery art Grand Parade of the KnightsUnited States Patent No. 2423765 Archery Bow by W M Folberth Et Al Filed March 1 1945 Folberth's wartime filing reimagines the bow as a mechanical assembly, its limbs sectioned and its riser plotted with the precision of a man who saw the longbow less as heirloom than as engineering problem. The schematic catches archery at a peculiar inflection: an ancient weapon, drawn in 1945, on its slow walk from yew and sinew toward the laminated, tunable