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US 2022/0314184 A1Published application
Method of manufacturing throwable paintballs and paintballs made therefrom
AssigneeMezzimatic LLC
InventorBriana Gardell
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Abstract
A method of encapsulating content with calcium alginate membrane to form a capsule. The method includes embedding sodium alginate into a traditional gelatin ribbon used in gelatin encapsulation, adding calcium to a fill material, encapsulating the fill material, and then denaturing the gelatin in the shell. An exemplary use of this method is to form throwable paintballs; however, other products could be formed using this process. A paintball formed by this process is also disclosed.
Claims20
A paintball comprising:
- a shell comprising:
- an alginate;
- a gelatin;
- a plasticizer;
- and
- water;
- and
- a fill material inside the shell comprising:
- polyethylene glycol;
- calcium chloride;
- and
- water.
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A paintball comprising:
- a calcium alginate shell;
- and
- a fill material inside the shell comprising:
- polyethylene glycol;
- calcium chloride;
- and
- water.
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The paintball according to claim 121, wherein the fill material comprises:
- about 1.18 parts by weight of the calcium chloride;
- about 10 parts by weight of the polyethylene glycol;
- and
- a remainder the water.
1 more element
A paintball comprising:
- a shell comprising:
- an alginate;
- a gelatin;
- a plasticizer;
- and
- water;
- and
- a fill material inside the shell.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.