Paintball loader for paintball marker

A paintball loader suitable for use on a paintball marker, comprising

• a refillable container defining an internal space for accommodating a plurality of paintballs, said container further comprising an outlet for enabling paintballs to sequentially exit the container towards the marker,
• a rotatably disposed protrusive housing extending inside the internal space from a predetermined bottom of said space and being provided with at least one fin for contacting a paintball, and
• a drive mechanism including an electric motor, wherein the drive mechanism is at least partially located within the housing in said internal space and being operable to rotate the housing in order to agitate one or more paintballs present in the container with said at least one fin and facilitate their movement towards the outlet.

A paintball marker comprising

• an infeed adaptor configured to sequentially receive paintballs from a loader to be fired by the marker, and
• the loader comprising a refillable container defining an internal space for accommodating a plurality of paintballs, said container further comprising an outlet for enabling paintballs to sequentially exit the container towards the marker, an agitating member including at least one rotor fin rotatably disposed within said container, a drive mechanism including an electric motor, said drive mechanism being operable to rotate the agitating member so as to agitate one or more paintballs present in the container and facilitate their movement towards the outlet, and a protrusive housing extending inside the internal space, wherein the drive mechanism is at least partially located within the housing in said internal space.