Paintball Impact Grenade
A non-lethal hand grenade having a flexible resilient tube containing a pressurized colored liquid, with a impact actuated trigger device, which overcome the deficiencies of known prior art by offering a reliable, safe, and cost effective device that never fail to goes off when is thrown towards a intended target. The trigger device relies on the flexibility of the tube to keep the device safe to be thrown without going off until a minimal impact happens; The impact actuates a device which releases the trigger cap that keep the resilient tube blocked, allowing the pressurized liquid to be sprayed, marking anyone and anything about twenty feet of the point of impact. This non-reusable grenade is safe, reliable, environmental safe, easy to manufacture and operate, very similar in design and use to a real military grenade.
This application is related to and claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application for “Paintball Impact Grenade”, Ser. No. 61437888, Filled on Jan. 31, 2011 by the present inventor which is hereby expressly incorporated into this application by this reference thereto.
BACKGROUND Prior ArtThe following is tabulation of some prior art that presently appears relevant:
US PATENT DOCUMENTS
The present invention relates to a Paintball grenade filled with a non-toxic washable colored liquid, used on Paintball games with a impact activated trigger.
PRIOR ARTThe sport of paintball is a popular game which the players simulates a combat between two teams, using guns designed for this purpose called “paintball markers”; The paintball markers fires frangible projectiles (paintballs) filled with a non-toxic washable paint using a compressed gas supply. After being struck by a paintball, the player is considerate dead, and is out of the game.
A variety of guns for firing paintballs was developed to improve this game that have increased in popularity, also other type of non-lethal marking devices are also developed. Such devices include land mines, grenades, bazookas, mortars, tanks, and many anti-personal and anti-tank weapons. The paintball hand grenades is a non-lethal device that is thrown towards an intend target, marking everyone in the area and eliminating them from the game.
Different types of hand grenades have been developed such as reusable gas powered grenades, pyrotechnics, chemical reaction grenades, exploding grenades, and the pressurized elastic tube grenades.
The reusable grenades have some undesirable problems with include:
High cost manufacturing, complicated to operate, to reload, to recovery parts and difficult to cleaning up, after use. Pyrotechnics and chemical ones are not often used, because of safety concerns. The most used and cost effective are the pressurized elastic tube grenades.
The known ones are made of some kind of elastic material, usually a natural rubber tube filled with a colored liquid, which has one end of the tube definitely blocked or tied by a crimping element such as wire tie, and another side is blocked with a plastic ball and a cap that is supposed to be dislodged from the tube, by the impact of the grenade with an object, allowing the discharge of the colored fluid.
Because all the pressurized tube grenades are made the same way, all have the same undesirable problems; they only work if you throw them very fast against a solid surface. The impact should be strong to create enough pressure inside of the tube to dislodge the protective cap and the ball that block the exit; It is not always possible to find a perfect solid surface when you playing on the woods, or in plywood scenarios, or even on inflated bunkers; If you throw on the floor by your opponent, it usually doesn't go off, and you give to your opponent a new grenade to use against you or anyone of your team.
To make these pressurized paintball grenades more reliable, is necessary to make a device able to trigger by impact.
Considering that is not reusable, it needs to be inexpensive to manufacture, safe to use, and environmental safe; should be light and inexpensive for the consumer.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONAn impact actuated paintball grenade filled with a pressurized non-toxic washable colored liquid, comprising of a flexible resilient tube having one side permanently blocked by an crimping element and the other side blocked by an impact actuated device which releases itself from the resilient tube on impact, allowing the discharge of colored liquid in an unpredictable pattern marking the intended target.
The paintball impact grenade is illustrate on
The
The process of manufacture this paintball impact grenade follows the steps:
A) First measure and cut the resilient tube 100;
B) Glue or tie the wire formed trigger lever 110 the nut rubber cap 108, and nut 109 together forming a trigger cap shown on
C) Insert a pulling ring 106 on the safety pin 107.
D) Coil two or three turns of the tube on itself as shown on
E) Mount the right trigger case 104 and left trigger case 105;
F) Insert the retaining ring 103 to hold the two parts of the case (104, 105) on resilient tube 100;
G) Compress the resilient tube 100 by squeezing the two parts of the case (104 and 105) together.
H) Attach a trigger cap on it and insert the safety pin.
I) Inject the measured amount of fluid on the resilient tube 100 as shown on
J) Bend the end of the resilient tube 100 and seal it using a wire tie 102 or any crimping member as shown on
After assembled the grenade is safe until the safety pin 107 is removed by the player using a pulling ring 106, holding down the trigger cap keep it on its place until the grenade is thrown.
At the first moment of the impact, the trigger cap 108 is dislodge from the trigger device allowing the right trigger case 104 and left trigger case 105 to be pushed away by the spring action offered by the resilient tube 100 which was coiled and squeezed inside of them as shown on
In another embodiment the trigger device can be assembled using the parts as shown on
The process to manufacture on this embodiment is:
A) First measure and cut the resilient tube 100;
B) Insert a pulling ring 106 on the safety pin 107.
C) Coil two or three turns of the tube 100 on itself as shown on
D) Mount the right trigger case 105 and left trigger case 104;
E) Compress the resilient tube 100 by squeezing the two parts of the case (104 and 105) together.
F) Insert the o-ring 103
G) Attach a trigger cap 111 on it and insert the safety pin.
H) Inject the measured amount of fluid on the resilient tube 100 as shown on
I) Bend the end of the resilient tube 100 and seal it using a wire tie 102 or any crimping member to as shown on
- 100 Resilient tube.
- 102 Wire tie.
- 103 Retaining ring.
- 104 Right trigger case.
- 105 Left trigger case.
- 106 Pulling Ring.
- 107 Safety Pin.
- 108 Nut rubber cap.
- 109 Nut.
- 110 Wire formed trigger lever.
- 111 Optional trigger unit.
- 112 Optional Hinged right trigger case.
- 113 Optional Hinged left trigger case.
- 114 Colored fluid or washable paint.
Although the present disclosure has been described with reference to particular means, materials and embodiments, from the foregoing description, one skilled in the art can easily ascertain the essential characteristics of the invention and various changes and modifications may be made to adapt the various uses and characteristics without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
OPERATIONThe operation of this non-lethal hand grenade is very similar to a real military grenade. The player holds the trigger cap 108, 110 to keep it in place and remove the safety pin 107 using the pulling ring 106.
Throw the grenade towards intended target.
Claims
1. An impact actuated paintball grenade filled with a pressurized non-toxic washable colored liquid, comprising of a flexible resilient tube having one side permanently blocked by a crimping element and the other side blocked by an impact actuated device.
2. An impact actuated paintball grenade of claim 1 wherein the impact actuated device releases one side of the resilient tube on impact allowing the discharge of colored liquid.
3. An impact actuated paintball grenade of claim 1 wherein the impact actuated device uses part of the resilient tube as an active component on it.
4. An impact actuated device of claim 3 wherein the spring action required on device is provided by squeezing or stretching part of the resilient tube.
5. An impact actuated non-lethal hand grenade filled with a non-toxic washable colored liquid, comprising of a flexible resilient tube having one side permanently closed by a crimping element and the other side blocked by an impact actuated device.
6. An impact actuated non-lethal hand grenade of claim 5 wherein the impact actuated device is totally or partially dislodged of the resilient tube before the discharge of colored liquid.
7. A impact activated trigger for paintball grenades, comprised of two or more parts of any non-resilient material, attached at least to one end of a resilient tube or bladder to close it.
8. A impact activated trigger for paintball grenades of claim 7 wherein on impact, the trigger is actuated reliasing the resilient tube or bladder end, allowing the discharge of the colored liquid.
Type: Application
Filed: Apr 3, 2012
Publication Date: Oct 3, 2013
Inventor: Everson Fortes Silva (Deerfield Beach, FL)
Application Number: 13/437,997