Paintball, handgun, automatic magazine
OwnerBenjamin T. Tiberius, Dennis E. Tiberius +1inventors
InventorsBenjamin T. Tiberius, Dennis E. Tiberius, Kyle L. Hansen
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Abstract
A paintball gun is sized and designed to appear like and operate in a manner similar to a conventional handgun. A removable magazine stores projectiles and propellant. The entire magazine is small enough to fit into a handle of a pistol. The magazine may be integrated with propellant and projectile portions locked together or separable. Standard carbon dioxide cartridges fit within the magazine. Paintballs may be staggered to increase the maximum magazine load. A user may selectively release just the projectile portion of the magazine, in order to leave the propellant undisturbed until fully expended. The magazine can be completely removed without substantial loss of propellant.
Claims20
A gun comprising:
- a frame for supporting the gun;
- a plurality of spherical projectiles;
- a magazine comprising a connector selectively attaching the magazine to the frame, and a projectile store comprising an interior cavity having a width in the lateral direction effective to stagger selected projectiles of the plurality of spherical projectiles placed therein and a retainer preventing the release of the plurality of spherical projectiles when the magazine is unattached to the frame;
- a barrel secured to the frame to accelerate a projectile;
- and
- an action secured to the frame to control feeding of the selected projectiles and propellant to the barrel.
A gun comprising:
- a frame for supporting the gun;
- a plurality of spherical projectiles;
- a magazine comprising a connector selectively attaching the magazine to the frame, and a projectile store defining an interior cavity containing the plurality of spherical projectiles and having
- an impeller to urge projectiles out of the interior cavity,
- a retainer selectively fixing the impeller to the projectile store to hinder the impeller from urging projectiles out of the interior cavity.
- a barrel secured to the frame to accelerate a projectile;
- an
- an action secured to the frame to control feeding of the selected projectiles and propellant to the barrel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.