Paintball loader
AssigneeAncient Innovations Corp.
InventorJared L. Hamilton
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Abstract
Paintballs are loaded into a paintball gun. The paintballs are stored within a drive tube of a paintball loader. The paintballs are loaded into the paintball gun from the drive tube of the paintball loader. A screw is rotated with respect to the drive tube so that the paintballs are constrained to travel along a helical groove of the screw and along one of multiple column grooves on an inner surface of the drive tube.
Claims18
A paintball loader that stores paintballs and loads paintballs into a paintball gun, the paintball loader comprising:
- a screw having a plurality of helical grooves, the helical grooves winding in a first direction;
- a drive tube having multiple column grooves on an inner surface of the drive tube, the screw being located within a center of the drive tube along a length of the drive tube so that paintballs loaded within the drive tube are each within one of the helical grooves of the screw and within one of the multiple column grooves on the inner surface of the drive tube;
- wherein when the drive tube rotates with respect to the screw, paintballs within the drive tube are constrained to travel along one of the helical groove of the screw and along one of the multiple column grooves on the inner surface of the drive tube.
A paintball gun comprising:
- a paintball loader that stores paintballs, the paintball loader including:
- a screw having a helical groove, the helical groove winding in a first direction, and
- a drive tube having multiple column grooves that spiral around an inner surface of the drive tube, the screw being located within a center of the drive tube along a length of the drive tube so that paintballs loaded within the drive tube are each within the helical groove of the screw and within one of the multiple column grooves on the inner surface of the drive tube;
- and,
- a paintball reception area for receiving paintballs from the paintball loader;
- wherein when the drive tube rotates with respect to the screw, paintballs within the drive tube are constrained to travel along the helical groove of the screw and along one of the multiple column grooves on the inner surface of the drive tube.
A method for loading paintballs into a paintball gun, comprising:
- storing the paintballs within a drive tube of a paintball loader;
- and,
- loading the paintballs into the paintball gun from the drive tube of the paintball loader, including:
- rotating a screw with respect to the drive tube so that the paintballs are constrained to travel along a helical groove of the screw and along one of multiple column grooves that spiral around an inner surface of the drive tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.