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US 7,017,497 B1Granted
Method for making paintballs
AssigneeSmart Parts, Inc.
InventorWilliam M. Gardner, Jr.
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Abstract
A paintball is preferably formed by forming a quantity of filling material into a desired shape and then freezing the shaped filling material. A shell material is preferably applied to the frozen filling material.
Claims20
A method of forming a paintball, said method comprising:
- forming a quantity of paintball filling material into a desired shape;
- freezing the paintball filling material;
- and
- applying a shell material to the frozen paintball filling material.
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A method of forming a paintball, said method comprising:
- forming a desired quantity of paintball filling material into an approximately sphere-like shape;
- hardening the sphere-like shaped paintball filling material;
- and
- applying a shell material to the hardened sphere-like shaped paintball filling material.
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A method of forming a paintball, said method comprising:
- dispensing a desired quantity of paintball filling material;
- forming the desired quantity of paintball filling material into a desired shape;
- freezing the paintball filling material having the desired shape to retain the desired shape and to provide a desired size;
- and
- applying a shell material to the frozen paintball filling material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.