Projectile apparatuses

• US 3,089,476 A
• Filed: 11/07/1960
• Issued: 05/14/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Marcine P. Wolverton
• Original Assignee: Marcine P. Wolverton
• Inventors: Wolverton, Marcine P.
• Application Number:
  US04/067,663
• Time in Patent Office: 918 Days
• US Class Current: 124/77
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 11/50 Magazines for compressed-gas guns; Arrangements for feeding or loading projectiles from magazines
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 11/57 Electronic or electric systems for feeding or loading F41B11/53 takes precedence

Claims

1. IN COMBINATION, A SPENT BALL RECEIVING TUBE, A FIRING TUBE, A BLOWER HAVING AN INTAKE AND AN OUTLET, MEANS PROVIDING A CONNECTION BETWEEN SAID INTAKE AND SAID BALL RECEIVING TUBE, MEANS PROVIDING A CONNECTION BETWEEN SAID FIRING TUBE AND SAID OUTLET, A BALL DIRECTOR HAVING COMMUNICATION WITH SAID FIRING TUBE, MEANS FOR SUCCESSIVELY TRANSFERRING BALLS FROM SAID BALL RECEIVING TUBE TO SAID FIRING TUBE FOR PROJECTION THERETHROUGH AND THROUGH SAID BALL DIRECTOR BY PNEUMATIC PRESSURE GENERATED BY SAID BLOWER, SAID BLOWER HAVING A SECOND INTAKE PROVIDING A BY-PASS THERETO, AND MEANS PROVIDED BY SAID TRANSFER MEANS FOR CONTROLLING AIR PASSAGE THROUGH SAID BY-PASS INTAKE WHEN A BALL HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED BY SAID MEANS TO SAID FIRING TUBE, SAID TRANSFER MEANS INCLUDING AN ELECTROMAGNETICALLY OPERATED SOLENOID AND A TRANSFER SLIDE OPERATIVELY CONNECTED THERETO AND HAVING A BALL RECEPTACLE FOR RECEIVING THE BALL FROM SAID RECEIVING TUBE FOR TRANSFER TO SAID FIRING TUBE.