Paintball clip magazine
OwnerKenneth R. Farrellinventor
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Abstract
A removable projectile magazine for paintball guns has a cylindrical, spring loaded housing with an opening at one end for receiving and ejecting paintballs. The end also has a one-way valve consisting of a plurality of flexible fingers subtending a hemispherical shape. The fingers permit insertion of paintballs into the housing but prohibit removal of the paintballs therefrom when the housing is not received on a gun. When received on paintball gun, a de-activating member forces the resilient fingers apart allowing the paintballs to exit from the housing.
Claims15
A removable magazine for a projectile gun, comprising:
- a removable housing for containing a plurality of projectiles in series and defining an opening at one end for releasing the projectiles;
- mounting means connected to the gun for removably mounting the housing to the gun;
- a unitary direction mechanism at the one end of the housing allowing insertion of the projectiles into the housing and for selectively preventing release of the projectiles, wherein the unitary direction mechanism has a peripheral edge and a plurality of resilient, flexible fingers directed inwardly from the edge, the fingers being biased to a substantially closed position;
- and,
- a deactivating mechanism attached to the mounting means and adapted for cooperative engagement with the unitary direction mechanism so as to deactivate the unitary direction mechanism allowing release of the projectiles whenever the housing is mounted on the gun.
A removable magazine for a projectile gun comprising:
- a removable housing for containing a plurality of projectiles and defining an opening at one end for releasing the projectiles;
- a unitary direction mechanism at the opening allowing insertion of the projectiles into the housing and for selectively preventing release of the projectiles, wherein the unitary direction mechanism has a plurality of resilient, inwardly directed flexible fingers, the fingers being biased to a substantially closed position;
- and,
- a deactivating mechanism separate from the housing and adapted for mounting on the gun and further adapted for cooperative self engagement with the unitary direction mechanism whenever the housing is mounted on the gun so as to deactivate the unitary direction mechanism allowing release of the projectiles.
A selectively operable one way valve for a projectile gun magazine adapted to contain a plurality of spherical projectiles, comprising:
- a hemispherically shaped body defining concave and a convex sides and having a continuous edge defining a diameter of the body, the body also having a plurality of resilient flexible, arcuate fingers attached to the edge and substantially subtending a surface of the body in a direction towards an imaginary point on the surface, including a deactivating mechanism having a hollow annular projection having two open ends and a diameter larger than the spherical projectiles and smaller than the continuous edge so that the mechanism can be positioned to spread the fingers apart in an outward direction thereby allowing passage of the projectiles therethrough from the convex side whereby the fingers have a relatively low resistance to passage therethrough of the spherical projectiles from the conceive side and relatively high resistance to passage therethrough from the convex side and whereby the spherical projectiles and can pass through the annular projection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.