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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas G. Kotsiopoulos, Prospect Heights, IL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41B 1/102 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F41B 1/102 ;
Abstract
A feeder for use with a paintball gun has an inlet through which paintballs enter, and an outlet through which they exit. A feed mechanism disposed inside the feeder frictionally engages the paintballs as they enter and transports them to the outlet. The feed mechanism may include rotatable disks. The space between the rotatable disks may be less than the diameter of the paintballs. At least one of the rotatable disks may include a material that flexes to accommodate a paintball. The paintball feeding system may additionally incorporate a circuit that senses when the gun is fired and controls the rate at which paintballs are fed into the paintball gun.