Dual feed adapter of paintball marker
AssigneeReal Action Paintball, Inc.
InventorKhanh Tran
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Abstract
A paintball marker includes a main body and a dual feed adapter coupled to the main body. The dual feed adapter has a hollow interior, a top feed port and a bottom feed port. A top feed storage hopper is detachably connected to the dual feed adapter at the top feed port, and a bottom feed storage magazine is detachably connected to the dual feed adapter at the bottom feed port. A sleeve with an opening is rotatable within the dual feed adapter between a first position where the sleeve opening aligns with the top feed port for feeding therethrough a first group of paintballs from the hopper, and a second position where the sleeve opening aligns with the bottom feed port for feeding therethrough a second group of paintballs from the magazine.
Claims19
A paintball marker comprising:
- (a) a main body;
- (b) a dual feed adapter coupled to the main body, the dual feed adapter comprising a hollow interior, a first feed port and a second feed port;
- (c) a feed storage hopper detachably connected to the dual feed adapter at the first feed port;
- (d) a feed storage magazine detachably connected to the dual feed adapter at the second feed port;
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- (e) a sleeve comprising an opening, the sleeve being rotatable within the dual feed adapter between a first position where the sleeve opening aligns with the first feed port for feeding therethrough a first group of paintballs from the hopper, and a second position where the sleeve opening aligns with the second feed port for feeding therethrough a second group of paintballs from the magazine.
A dual feed adapter of a paintball marker, the dual feed adapter comprising:
- (a) a body comprising a hollow interior, a first feed port and a second feed port;
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- (b) a sleeve comprising an opening, the sleeve being rotatable within the body between a first position where the sleeve opening aligns with the first feed port for feeding therethrough a first group of paintballs from a first container, and a second position where the sleeve opening aligns with the second feed port for feeding therethrough a second group of paintballs from a second container.
A paintball marker comprising:
- (a) a main body;
- (b) a dual feed adapter coupled to the main body, the dual feed adapter comprising a hollow interior, a first feed port and a second feed port;
- (c) a feed storage hopper detachably connected to the dual feed adapter at the first feed port;
- (d) a feed storage magazine detachably connected to the dual feed adapter at the second feed port;
- (e) a sleeve comprising an opening, the sleeve being rotatable within the dual feed adapter between a first position where the sleeve opening aligns with the first feed port for feeding therethrough a first group of paintballs from the hopper, and a second position where the sleeve opening aligns with the second feed port for feeding therethrough a second group of paintballs from the magazine;
- (f) a selector wheel coupled to the sleeve to facilitate rotation of the sleeve within the dual feed adapter between the first and second positions;
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- (g) a threaded ball detent threadably engaged with a threaded side opening of the dual feed adapter, the detent comprising an end adapted to press against the sleeve for frictionally holding the sleeve in a fixed position relative to the dual feed adapter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.