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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2009
Khanh Tran, San Jose, CA (US);
Khanh Tran, San Jose, CA (US);
Real Action Paintball Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A bottom feed magazine of a paintball gun includes a housing for storing a plurality of paintballs. A circular tray is mounted to the housing. A hub is rotatable about a shaft within the circular tray at a center thereof. The circular tray and the hub together define an annular channel for receiving paintballs dropped therein from the housing. A plurality of arms is provided on the hub for driving the paintballs along the channel. A tube has an inlet end extending into the channel and an outlet end extending generally upwards to a top wall of the housing. When the central hub rotates, the paintballs in the channel are driven along the channel, into the inlet end and pushed up along the tube towards the outlet end.