Paintball filling system
OwnerLance G. Johnsoninventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is a filling system for loading one or more paintball reservoir tubes with paintballs. The system is made of a paintball fill funnel and a support for at least one, and preferably a plurality of reservoir tubes. The fill funnel is dimensioned to fit within the reservoir tube and rest on the rim of the reservoir tube. A support shoulder, rim, or plurality of support shoulders on the outside of the fill funnel form a stable plane atop the tube rim. Each funnel can have more than one spout that communicates with a central funnel chamber for filling a plurality of paintball reservoir tubes simultaneously. The tube support can take a variety of configurations.
Claims18
A paintball fill funnel comprising:
- (a) a central bowl chamber having lateral walls directing paintballs loaded therein without obstruction and directly towards (b) a plurality of outlet spouts, said spout having nontapering external walls and dimensions each sized to fit within a paintball reservoir tube with an unobstructed discharge opening opposite said spout, and (c) at least one planar support shoulder on the outside of said funnel to provide a stable, substantially horizontal plans of support for said funnel when said spout is inserted vertically into a generally cylindrical paintball reservoir tube and said support shoulder rests on an upper rim of said paintball reservoir tube.
A paintball reservoir tube filing process comprising:
- filling a vertically standing, cylindrical paintball reservoir tube with a plurality of 0.68 caliber paintballs by directing said paintballs into said reservoir tube with a paintball fill funnel that is supported in a substantially horizontal plane on an upper edge of said reservoir tube by at least one substantially horizontal support surface of a support shoulder formed into or onto an outer surface of said fill funnel, wherein said paintball fill funnel comprises:
- (a) a central bawl chamber having lateral walls directing paintballs loaded therein without obstruction and directly towards (b) at least one outlet spout at a bowl-spout function, said spout having nontapered external walls and dimensions sized to fit within a paintball reservoir tube with an unobstructed discharge opening opposite said bowl-spout junction, and (c) at least one planar support shoulder on the outside of said funnel to provide a stable, substantially horizontal plane of support for said funnel when said spout is inserted vertically into a generally cylindrical paintball reservoir tube and said support shoulder rests on an upper rim of said paintball reservoir tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.