CA2105337A1 - Jam-Free Bulk Loader for a Paintball Gun - Google Patents

Jam-Free Bulk Loader for a Paintball Gun

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CA2105337A1
CA2105337A1 CA2105337A CA2105337A CA2105337A1 CA 2105337 A1 CA2105337 A1 CA 2105337A1 CA 2105337 A CA2105337 A CA 2105337A CA 2105337 A CA2105337 A CA 2105337A CA 2105337 A1 CA2105337 A1 CA 2105337A1
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gun
infeed
elbow
paintball
paintballs
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CA2105337A
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CA2105337C (en
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Roderick Lee Bell
David Wesley Bell
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JT Sports LLC
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Roderick Lee Bell
David Wesley Bell
Cm Support, Inc.
Brass Eagle Inc.
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41B—WEAPONS FOR PROJECTING MISSILES WITHOUT USE OF EXPLOSIVE OR COMBUSTIBLE PROPELLANT CHARGE; WEAPONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F41B11/00—Compressed-gas guns, e.g. air guns; Steam guns
    • F41B11/50—Magazines for compressed-gas guns; Arrangements for feeding or loading projectiles from magazines
    • F41B11/57—Electronic or electric systems for feeding or loading
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A9/00—Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
    • F41A9/38—Loading arrangements, i.e. for bringing the ammunition into the firing position
    • F41A9/48—Loading by gravitational force
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41B—WEAPONS FOR PROJECTING MISSILES WITHOUT USE OF EXPLOSIVE OR COMBUSTIBLE PROPELLANT CHARGE; WEAPONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F41B11/00—Compressed-gas guns, e.g. air guns; Steam guns
    • F41B11/50—Magazines for compressed-gas guns; Arrangements for feeding or loading projectiles from magazines
    • F41B11/52—Magazines for compressed-gas guns; Arrangements for feeding or loading projectiles from magazines the projectiles being loosely held in a magazine above the gun housing, e.g. in a hopper
    • F41B11/53—Magazines for compressed-gas guns; Arrangements for feeding or loading projectiles from magazines the projectiles being loosely held in a magazine above the gun housing, e.g. in a hopper the magazine having motorised feed-assisting means

Abstract

An essentially jam-free bulk loader for a semi-automatic paintball gun includes a storage housing positionable above the gun infeed opening and adapted to hold a quantity of paintballs to be gravity fed to and fired by the gun. Extending downwardly from a bottom outlet opening in the housing is a feed tube having a bottom end portion connectable to outer end of the gun infeed elbow. During normal operation of the loader, a series of paintballs fall into the tube and infeed elbow and are vertically stacked therein for sequential downward delivery to the gun through the inner end of the infeed elbow. If a paintball jam occurs within the storage housing above its outlet opening during firing of the gun, a void is created in a top end portion of the feed tube above the downwardly moving paintball stack. An optical sensor detects the void and responsively actuates a motor driven agitator member within the storage housing adjacent its bottom outlet opening. The driven agitator member forcibly engages and shifts the jamming paintballs to permit additional paintballs to fall through the housing outlet opening into the feed tube and return the paintball delivery stack to its full operating height within the tube and infeed elbow. When this occurs, the sensor detects the filling of the tube void and responsively terminates the operation of the agitator member until it is needed again.
CA002105337A 1992-10-20 1993-09-01 Jam-free bulk loader for a paintball gun Expired - Lifetime CA2105337C (en)

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US07/963,993 1992-10-20
US07/963,993 US5282454A (en) 1992-10-20 1992-10-20 Jam-free bulk loader for a paintball gun

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CA2105337A1 true CA2105337A1 (en) 1994-04-21
CA2105337C CA2105337C (en) 1995-04-25

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