Mechanical guns and projectors – Element – Magazine
Patent
1997-05-15
1998-10-06
Ricci, John A.
Mechanical guns and projectors
Element
Magazine
124 48, 221258, 221277, F41B 1102
Patent
active
058162321
ABSTRACT:
An active feed loader for a paintball gun. The active feed loader includes a generally horizontal interior passageway or channel having a first end in communication with an interior space of the housing where paintballs are housed. A rotatable paddle positioned in the interior space forces paintballs out of the housing and through the interior passageway or channel until they drop through an opening therein into a vertical outfeed tube where they form a paintball stack. When the paintball gun is fired, the paintball stack is depleted until a sensor detects the absence of a paintball at a specified location within the outfeed tube. Upon detecting the absence, the sensor activates a motor which rotates the paddle to force paintballs through the interior passageway and into the outfeed tube where they replenish the paintball stack. When the stack is fully replenished, the sensor will detect the presence of a paintball at the specified location and deactivate the motor, thereby stopping the paddle. If the loader includes a channel, an elongated top wall of a directional plug prevents paintballs from dropping into a open top end thereof.
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CM Support, Inc.
Ricci John A.
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