Category:Belt and hook crossbow spanning
This is a subcategory for images of belt and hook spanning devices, a form of crossbow spanning mechanism used for spanning medieval era forms of crossbows.
Belt and hook crossbow spanning tools were some of the earliest attempts to mechanise the process of spanning a crossbow bowstring, especially in the case of crossbows with higher, more powerful poundage of the bow. Hand-spanning high-poundage crossbows proved increasingly impractical, resulting in the belt and hook method developing as an alternative, to alleviate the strain put on the arms of a crossbowman. The foot stirrup, typical for the front of medieval crossbows, developed in parallel. Its function was to further ease the spanning of the bowstring via the belt hook.
The "belt and hook" method of crossbow spanning later evolved into the slightly more complex, but more comfortable "belt and pulley" spanning method.
Media in category "Belt and hook crossbow spanning"
The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total.
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35-caccia gru,Taccuino Sanitatis, Casanatense 4182..jpg 1,000 × 1,082; 354 KB
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Crécy-en-Ponthieu 24-09-2008 12-13-34.JPG 2,104 × 1,647; 2.34 MB
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