Patent · US Expired

Paint ball gun feed tube

US5673679A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateNov 8, 1996
Grant dateOct 7, 1997
Priority date
Expiry dateNov 8, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF41B11/52
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The feed tube for the gun has an inlet with an outlet transverse to the inlet and which is adapted to be coupled to the ball inlet of the gun barrel. The feed robe wall opposite the outlet effectively is closed. The feed tube also has a gas outlet in the feed tube opposite its outlet for directing gas toward the feed tube outlet for enhancing movement of a ball in the feed tube out of its outlet into the gun barrel.

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