Mechanical guns and projectors – Fluid pressure – With control for discharge of fluid pressure
Patent
1999-01-11
2000-05-16
Carone, Michael J.
Mechanical guns and projectors
Fluid pressure
With control for discharge of fluid pressure
124 72, 124 73, 124 74, 42 102, 42 103, F41B 1106
Patent
active
060622083
ABSTRACT:
The invention and disclosure is directed to improvements for a pressure gun utilized to propel paint containing balls which will, when they strike, break and apply paint to a target or, as utilized in the sport of Paint or Splat Ball, an opposing player, to identify such person as having been hit and therefore out of the game. The improvements include both a retro-fit and a custom adapted monitor with visual readout for counting the number of balls which have been shot by sensing pressure drop, or through Hall effect sensing, or mechanical switch actuation; the latter two sensing propelling bolt movement. The monitor also includes a visual readout for reverse timing to show the player game time remaining and a tank pressure supply readout which will show the player remaining tank pressure. Through microprocessing of the information of shot count and time remaining or elapsed, a shooting rate is determinable. Both the retro-fit unit and the custom unit supply the same basic information to the microprocessor which then will calculate shot rate.
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Amodrea John M.
Seefeldt William J.
Beitey Dan
Carone Michael J.
Cwayna James R.
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