US Patent No: 8,176,908
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Variable pneumatic sear for paintball gun
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May 15, 2012
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Oct 23, 2008
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12/256,832
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Abstract
An improved paintball gun uses a low-pressure pneumatic sear to hold the firing valve closed against the high pressure gas occupying the other side of the valve. In this manner, only one operation is required between depressing the trigger and the firing of the paintball gun because a double-acting cylinder is not required as an interface between the trigger depression and actuation of the valve. The paintball gun is also substantially faster than existing electro-pneumatic paintball guns because it uses a blow forward bolt, in which higher-pressure gas is held directly behind the bolt and has only one direction to travel during the firing of the paintball gun.
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| 6,474,326 Pneumatically operated projectile launching device | 80 | 2000 | |
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| 7,461,646 Bolt for pneumatic paintball gun | 14 | 2007 | |
| 7,603,997 Electrical control unit for paintball gun | 5 | 2007 | |
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| 7,690,373 Paintball gun with readily-removable pneumatic assembly | 4 | 2008 | |
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| 4,936,282 Gas powered gun | 167 | 1988 | |
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| 5,280,778 Semi-automatic firing compressed gas gun | 152 | 1992 | |
| 5,494,024 Paint ball gun and assemblies therefor | 50 | 1992 | |
| 5,349,938 Reciprocatable barrel pneumatic gun | 82 | 1993 | |
| 5,333,594 Gun with variable gas power | 72 | 1993 | |
| 5,450,839 Pneumatic launcher | 19 | 1993 | |
| 5,462,042 Semiautomatic paint ball gun | 98 | 1993 | |
| 5,542,406 Retractable bolt assembly for compressed gas powered gun | 21 | 1994 | |
| 5,630,406 Paint-ball gun | 27 | 1995 | |
| 5,572,982 Paint ball gun with crack valve | 54 | 1995 | |
| 6,233,928 Paint ball gun and assemblies therefor | 30 | 1997 | |
| 6,142,136 Releasable paint ball gun bolt | 36 | 1997 | |
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| 6,024,077 Pressure regulating system for compressed gas powered weapons or the like | 24 | 1997 | |
| 6,302,092 Air gun trigger system | 16 | 2000 | |
| 6,371,099 Paint ball gun | 41 | 2001 | |
| 6,532,949 Paint ball gun kit assembly | 57 | 2001 | |
| 6,668,478 Firearm pneumatic counter-recoil modulator & airgun thrust-adjustor | 20 | 2001 | |
| 6,553,983 Paint ball gun | 46 | 2002 | |
| 6,637,420 Closed bolt assembly for a paintball marker gun | 43 | 2002 | |
| 6,626,165 Paintball gun | 41 | 2002 | |
| 6,732,464 Discharging device | 16 | 2002 | |
| 6,832,605 Pneumatic gun | 17 | 2002 | |
| 6,618,975 Paintball gun conveniently assembled | 18 | 2002 | |
| 6,860,258 Paintball loader | 24 | 2003 | |
| 6,868,846 Structure for a toy gun | 9 | 2003 | |
| 6,901,689 Firearm pneumatic counter-recoil modulator and airgun thrust-adjustor | 14 | 2003 | |
| 6,925,997 Paintgun with pneumatic feeding and discharging process | 19 | 2003 | |
| 2005/0066,952 Air gun | 7 | 2003 | |
| 7,086,393 Hybrid airgun | 7 | 2003 | |
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| 6,915,792 Paintgun with a revolving disc for feeding paintballs | 36 | 2004 | |
| 2005/0115,553 Paintball marker and kit of parts therefor | 5 | 2004 | |
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| 2006/0207,585 Bullet delivery device for air guns | 5 | 2005 | |
| 2007/0151,548 Valve Assembly for Paintball Guns and the Like, and Improved Guns Incorporating the Assembly | 5 | 2006 | |
| 2007/0181,115 PAINTBALL MARKER AND KIT OF PARTS THEREFOR | 8 | 2007 | |
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