Paint Ball Arraying Device

Abstract

A paint ball arraying device, especially used in a paint-ball gun to feed in spherical paint balls, keeps the paint balls intact and feeds the paint balls in a bore successfully. The arraying device utilizes a flexible loop-shape advancing belt, which is formed with an upright advancing side perpendicular to the bore after being assembled, and is spaced equally with multiple toggle rods, with a receiving slot being defined between every two toggle rods. By the upright advancing side, a space for feeding the external paint balls can be extended to load the paint balls in a large quantity. Furthermore, using the receiving slot, the paint ball contained can be maintained intact independently; the advancing side is upright and perpendicular to the bore that advancing force will not be divided into a component of force explicitly, thus, the paint balls can be successfully fed into the bore.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

a) Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a paint ball arraying device, and more particularly to an arraying device which is used in a paint-ball gun to feed in spherical paint balls, such that the paint balls can be kept intact and fed in successfully.

b) Description of the Prior Art

A paint ball is a consumed material of shooting in a realistic sparring war game. The paint ball is safe and can clearly mark a position of hit after hitting on a target. However, in order to avoid a danger of impact when the paint ball is hit on a human skin, the paint ball used by a paint-ball gun is a soft shell including colored powder to form a spherical ball that is easily deformed plastically by external force. As the paint ball is soft and easily deformed, a firing speed is unable to be accelerated due to an inherent limitation that the paint balls will be deformed by squeezing upon being loaded in a row from front to rear for a continuous firing operation. In an early time, to avoid the paint ball to be deformed by squeezing, a funnel is used that the paint balls are dropped into a bore one by one from top of the gun due to gravity. As the funnel is set up above the gun, a sight of aiming will be affected, beauty of the gun will be spoiled significantly, and a sense of reality will be lost. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 1, an advancing design is able to feed in the paint balls while yielding a loading mechanism to the sight of aiming. The advancing design includes a box 5, interior of which is pivoted with a circular toggle wheel 52. Toggle pieces 521 are spaced equally on the toggle wheel 52 in a radial direction, and a drop entrance 51 is located on the box 5. After the paint balls 10 have been dropped into the box 5 from the drop entrance 51, the paint balls 10 are pushed toward an outlet 55 by a push-cut function of the toggle pieces 521. The outlet 55 is connected to a guide passage 50 inside the box 5, and the guide passage 50 is upright toward a bore of a gun (not shown in the drawing), allowing the paint balls 10 to be fed into the bore along a straight line. The guide passage 50 is provided with a length of L within which pluralities of paint balls 10 are pushed in an array. As a diameter of the paint ball 10 is smaller than that of the guide passage 50, a significant tolerance will be formed, allowing an outer circumference of the paint ball 10 to lose support that the paint ball 10 cannot keep forwarding in a center line of the guide passage 50, and a center line along the front and rear paint balls 10 to be off-set. Thus, central advancing force in an ideal condition will be deflected, and a component of force produced by pushing in a deflective direction will compress the paint ball 10 to deform and clog. In addition, the drop entrance 51 of the box 5 only provides a single paint ball 10 to drop into; therefore, when the toggle pieces 521 are toggled with respect to one paint ball 10, an idle period will be formed if a drop speed of the paint ball 10 is not able to correspond with the operation of the toggle pieces 521, which allows the previous paint balls 10 that have entered into the guide passage 50 to lose subsequent advancing force that it is not able to feed the paint balls 10 into the bore successfully or that only a half of the paint ball 10 will enter into the bore, with the paint ball 10 being ruptured or jammed by a feeding operation of an action.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a paint ball arraying device which is used in a paint-ball gun to feed in spherical paint balls, such that the paint balls can be kept intact and fed in successfully. The paint ball arraying device primarily utilizes a flexible loop-shape advancing belt to form an upright advancing side which is perpendicular to a bore, and a series of holding slots spaced in the belt, to keep the paint balls intact and not to be affected by a component of force, thereby allowing the paint balls to be successfully fed into the bore intact, while advancing and feeding the paint balls.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a paint ball arraying device, wherein the advancing belt is enclosed by a housing which is provided with an outlet, and the outlet faces directly toward a vertical line of the bore.

A third object of the present invention is to provide a paint ball arraying device, wherein the loop-shape advancing belt is supported and driven by at least two wheels, and is formed with the upright advancing side having a length equal to a pitch between the two wheels.

A fourth object of the present invention is to provide a paint ball arraying device, wherein the wheels that drive the advancing belt are linked synchronously by a firing operation of a gun, allowing a linear actuation distance of the advancing belt to be equally divided by an interval of the firing operation.

A fifth object of the present invention is to provide a paint ball arraying device, wherein an outlet of a housing directly faces toward a center of the bore, allowing the paint balls to be fed in at multiple orientations within 90 degrees below a horizontal line of a vertical plane of the bore, so as to facilitate designing loading angles of the gun.

To enable a further understanding of the said objectives and the technological methods of the invention herein, the brief description of the drawings below is followed by the detailed description of the preferred embodiments.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of a conventional paint-ball advancing device.

FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of an assembly structure of the present invention.

FIG. 2A shows a constitutional diagram of an outlet of the present invention.

FIG. 3 shows an exploded view of components of the present invention.

FIG. 4 shows a front perspective view of an implementation of the present invention.

FIG. 5 shows a schematic view of the present invention combining with a loading cartridge.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Referring to FIG. 2 and FIG. 2A, a paint ball arraying device of the present invention comprises a rectangular housing 1, interior of which is formed with a movement slot 13 in a circular cross section and a loop-shape, with the movement slot 13 being provided with a diameter that is a little larger than that of the paint ball used. Exterior of the housing 1, with respect to the movement slot 13, is provided with an inlet 11 and an outlet 12 for the paint balls 10 to access, a cross section of the inlet 11 is in a circular shape and a center of the inlet 11 directly faces toward a center line 130 of the movement slot 13.

A linear position of the center line 130 of the movement slot 13 is provided with a flexible loop-shape advancing belt 3 which is basically a belt, with an outward surface being provided with a plurality of toggle rods 31 that are spaced equally, and a receiving slot 30 being provided between every two toggle rods 31.

The advancing belt 3 is supported by at least two wheels 2 which are pivoted at the housing 1. After being supported by the aforementioned wheels 2, an outer circumference of the advancing belt 3 is relatively located at the movement slot 13 of the housing 1, wherein at least one wheel 2 is an active wheel which can be linked outward to a power source to drive the advancing belt 3 to operate counterclockwise, as shown in FIG. 2. In addition, at least one side of the advancing belt 3 is formed with an upright advancing side 33, a length of the advancing side 33 is equivalent to a pitch between the two wheels 2, and a running line 300 of the advancing belt 3 is preferably overlapped with, or at least parallel, to the center line 130 of the aforementioned movement slot 13.

A cross section of the outlet 12 of the housing 1 is also in a circular shape; a center line of the outlet 12 is overlapped with the center line 130 of the movement slot 13 or the running line 300 of the advancing belt 3 and is linked extendedly. In addition, the cross section of the outlet 12 is perpendicular to the advancing side 33, and a correction section 120, which is provided with a same cross sectional area and shape, is formed between the outlet 12 and the advancing side 33, to correct at least one paint ball 10, allowing the paint ball 10 to displace linearly before exiting the outlet 12. A parallel position where an inner circumference of the correction section 120 yields to a thickness of the toggle rod 31 of the advancing belt 3 is formed with a notch 121, two sides of which are formed as sliding sides 122; whereas, the paint ball 10 at the correction section 120 is guided by the sliding sides 122 to be pushed out linearly toward the outlet 12.

Referring to FIG. 3, the housing 1 can be constituted by covering two half parts, with interior being formed as a half of the movement slot 13 respectively to form a tube after being assembled. From a plane of the aforementioned notch 121, a relative thickness of the movement slot 13 with respect to the advancing belt 3 also needs to yield a space to hold sides of the advancing belt 3, but allowing the advancing belt 3 to move freely. A central axis position of the wheel 2 is transfixed respectively with a pivot hole 14, such that the wheel 2 is loosely pivoted by the pivot hole 14, and an inner surface of the advancing belt 3 is driven by using an outer circumference of the wheel 2, allowing the advancing belt 3 to operate as shown in FIG. 2. At least one wheel 2 can be linked to an external power source through a linking device 22, allowing the advancing belt 3 to acquire driving energy, wherein an inner surface of the advancing belt 3 is further formed as a row of teeth 32, and an outer surface of the wheel 2 is formed as a ring of teeth 21, so as to acquire synchronous gnawing without a slippage and without an error, by using the ring of teeth 21 to gnaw with the row of teeth 32.

The linking device 22 of the wheel 2 is linked by introducing external force, that external force can be formed by a firing operation element which is linked to a gun (not shown in the drawing), and utilizes counter force or any residual force that is linked through an actuation mechanism when firing a bullet with the gun, or can be controlled by an electromechanical device (not shown in the drawing) through a programmable circuit to trigger a motor intermittently, allowing the linking device 22 to be driven intermittently by the motor or manually. As technical details of various kinds of methods with which the linking device 22 is linked to and driven by the external force are an ordinary mobile and electromechanical design, further description will not be provided.

Referring to FIG. 4, the inlet 11 of the housing 1 provides for the paint ball 10 to enter, and can be configured as a long-hole entrance 110 to allow more paint balls to drop into, allowing the receiving slot 30 to have a higher probability for receiving the paint ball 10. In addition, a center line of the long-hole entrance 110 is parallel to the running line 300.

The advancing belt 3 is linked by the wheels 2, and after being linked, the toggle rods 31 will push out the paint balls 10 toward the outlet 12. The outlet 12 is connected to the running line 300 inward, through the correction section 120, and the center line of the correction section 120 is coaxially extended with a center of the running line 300 (the advancing side 33). The sliding sides 122 formed can form a slide-cut function to guide the paint balls 10 that the paint balls 10 are pushed out linearly toward the outlet 12; whereas, the toggle rods 31 which operate the paint balls 10 will cross over the notch 121 to cause an orderly link, wherein as the paint balls 10 that are carried at the advancing side 33 are maintained independently by the receiving slots 30, their outer shapes can be kept intact and will not be squeezed during the process, except that a first paint ball and a subsequent second paint ball that are close to the outlet 12 are squeezed with respect to each other, other paint balls 10 that are running in the running line 300 are spaced with one another by the toggle rods 31, so as to be maintained independently by the receiving slots 30. Therefore, the outer shapes of the paint balls 10 are kept intact during the advancing process.

Referring to FIG. 5, the position of the outlet 11 of the housing 1 can be linked outward with a loading cartridge 4 to expand a capacity, and the outlet 12 of the housing 1 is assembled toward a bore of a gun (not shown in the drawing), which is basically perpendicular to the gun, and is assembled upward to an abdomen part, like a magazine of a real gun that is assembled upward to a lower abdomen part of the gun. On the other hand, the inlet 11 of the housing 1 can be located in multiple orientations within 90 degrees of a horizontal X-axis on a vertical plane. Whether the inlet 11 is suspended down by 90 degrees or is located within a horizontal included angle of 0 degree, the paint balls 10 can all be fed in by gravity. Therefore, the housing 1 can be also assembled in multiple orientations to the gun, such that a design of a feeding position of the gun will not be restricted.

It is of course to be understood that the embodiments described herein is merely illustrative of the principles of the invention and that a wide variety of modifications thereto may be effected by persons skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.

Claims

1. A paint ball arraying device, especially an arraying device which is used in a paint-ball gun to feed in spherical paint balls, keep the paint balls intact and feed the paint balls in a bore successfully, comprising a flexible loop-shape advancing belt including a belt, toggle rods spaced equally on the belt, and a receiving slot between every two toggle rods; at least two wheels to support and drive the advancing belt, and to arrange the advancing belt to form at least one upright advancing side; and a housing, interior of which is assembled with the wheels, with a movement slot being provided at a periphery of a running line of the advancing side, the movement slot being provided with an inlet and an outlet of the housing, a cross section of the outlet being perpendicular to an upright line of the advancing side and a center of the outlet being overlapped with the upright line.

2. The paint ball arraying device according to claim 1, wherein a cross section of the movement slot is circular and a diameter of the movement slot is a little larger than that of the paint ball used.

3. The paint ball arraying device according to claim 1, wherein a cross section of the inlet is circular and a center of the inlet faces cross section of the inlet is circular and a center of the inlet faces directly toward the running line of the movement slot.

4. The paint ball arraying device according to claim 1, wherein a cross section of the inlet is in a shape of a long hole, and a center line of the long hole is parallel to the running line.

5. The paint ball arraying device according to claim 1, wherein exterior of the inlet is added with a paint ball loading cartridge.

6. The paint ball arraying device according to claim 1, wherein an inner side of the advancing side is a row of teeth.

7. The paint ball arraying device according to claim 1, wherein at least one wheel is an active wheel, exterior of which is a ring of teeth.

8. The paint ball arraying device according to claim 1, wherein a center line of the movement slot is overlapped with the running line of the advancing belt.

9. The paint ball arraying device according to claim 1, wherein a center line of the movement slot is parallel to the running line of the advancing belt.