Mechanical guns and projectors – Element – Magazine
Reexamination Certificate
1999-09-07
2001-05-22
Ricci, John A. (Department: 3712)
Mechanical guns and projectors
Element
Magazine
C124S049000, C124S050000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06234157
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to paintball gun magazines and more particularly to reloading mechanisms therefor.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In many life situations, it is advantageous to use containers that can be opened and shut by movement of the thumb of the very hand that holds the container. One can think of the situation where one hand is busy stirring a preparation and small amount of various other products may have to be added to that preparation such as in a kitchen or laboratory environment. In the old days, a warrior using a muzzle-loaded rifle would reach for a powder cartridge with one hand while holding the rifle with the other. He would then rip the top of the carton cartridge with his teeth before pouring its contents into the muzzle. A similar situation is encountered today when participants in paintball games must reload their weapon with a new supply of paintballs. Prior art paintball containers have an hinged top which still requires to be opened with two hands or use of the mouth.
This invention results from efforts to provide a more convenient form of paintball gun loading containers.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The principal and secondary objects of this invention are to provide a simple and economical type of plastic container that can be held with one hand and opened then closed by movement of the thumb of that same hand, and without offering any interference across the opening of the container.
Another object of this invention is to allow a participant in a paintball shooting game to single-handedly reload the magazine of his paintball gun, and to eliminate a need for a cover in the inlet of such magazine.
These and other valuable objects are achieved by a dome-shaped cap which is formed of a series of adjacent and contiguous ogee-shaped segments that come together under the action of an elastic ring to form a dome. The segments are mounted on an annular ring that slips over the cylindrical opening of the container. By pushing the annular ring down, the rim of the container causes the ogee-shaped segment to separate and expose the opening without any interference.
In a collar mounted over the inlet of a paintball gun magazine, a similar but inverted cap acts as a check-valve to prevent paintballs from spilling out of the magazine, the petal-shaped segments of the cap spread apart when contacted and pushed by the rim of the container from which the magazine is reloaded. This container may be of the type described above, or any other container with a rim commensurate with the collar.
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Buchaca John D.
Charmasson Henri J. A.
Gregory John R.
Ricci John A.
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