US12410987 - Device for paintball air gun

The patent describes an improved device for a paintball air gun featuring a sliding sleeve that utilizes gas pressure to propel paint bullets at high speed. The design includes a linkage device that releases a buckle, allowing gas to push the sliding sleeve forward and subsequently impact the paint bullet, with a spring mechanism returning the sleeve to its original position.

Claim 1

1. An improved device for a paintball air gun, wherein in a gun body, a linkage device of a trigger allows a gas bottle to supply air to a ring plug that extends forward from a positioning block in an end chamber of a ballistic path, wherein a sliding sleeve is sleeved into a front end of the ring plug, wherein a front ring sleeve is covering a front end of the sliding sleeve, wherein a spring is provided between the front ring sleeve and the sliding sleeve, wherein a paint bullet has been pushed into the front end of the sliding sleeve in the ballistic path from a bullet chamber in advance, wherein the sliding sleeve has a channel penetrating an inside thereof, wherein the sliding sleeve has a rear ring sleeve covering a rear end thereof and a plurality of air holes around the rear ring sleeve, wherein a buckle of a protruding ring at the middle of the sliding sleeves is released by the linkage device, and the gas enters the rear ring sleeve through the plurality of air holes of the rear ring sleeve to push the sliding sleeve forward until the sliding sleeve disengages from the ring plug, and then the gas enters the channel in the sliding sleeve to directly push the paint bullet, causing the paint bullet to exit the gun body, finally the spring returns the sliding sleeve to an original position.

Google Patents

https://patents.google.com/patent/US12410987

USPTO PDF

https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/12410987