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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2017
HK Army Inc., Gardena, CA (US);
Jason Pineda, Gardena, CA (US);
HK ARMY INC., Gardena, CA (US);
Abstract
A swab device for cleaning the barrel of a paintball gun has a shaft and a sleeve is slidably mounted over the shaft. An absorbent material is wrapped about the sleeve. A cap member is pivotally attached to a distal end of the shaft by a spring that biases the cap to a retracted position where it faces outward from a side surface of the shaft so the cap extends along a plane spaced from and substantially parallel to an axis of the shaft. The cap can be pivoted by the sleeve to a deployed position where it is substantially perpendicular to the axis of the shaft. The cap has a resilient circumferential portion that engages an inner surface of the barrel when the cap is in the deployed position to clean (e.g., squeegee) the inner surface of the barrel while the absorbent material absorbs any liquid from broken paint balls in the barrel as the shaft is pulled out of the barrel.