Roderick Maurice Bell

US Patent:

52824543, Feb 1, 1994

Filed:

Oct 20, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/963993

Inventors:

Roderick L. Bell - Mesquite TX
David W. Bell - Mesquite TX

Assignee:

CM Support, Inc. - Mesquite TX

International Classification:

F41B 1102

US Classification:

124 49

Abstract:

An essentially jam-free bulk loader for a semi-automatic paintball gun includes a storage housing positionable above the gun infeed opening and adapted to hold a quantity of paintballs to be gravity fed to and fired by the gun. Extending downwardly from a bottom outlet opening in the housing is a feed tube having a bottom end portion connectable to outer end of the gun infeed elbow. During normal operation of the loader, a series of paintballs fall into the tube and infeed elbow and are vertically stacked therein for sequential downward delivery to the gu through the inner end of the infeed elbow. If a paintball jam occurs within the storage housing above its outlet opening during firing of the gun, a void is created in a top end portion of the feed tube above the downwardly moving paintball stack. An optical sensor detects the void and responsively actuates a motor driven agitator member within the storage housing adjacent its bottom outlet opening. The driven agitator member forcibly engages and shifts the jamming paintballs to permit additional paintballs to fall through the housing outlet opening into the feed tube and return the paintball delivery stack to its full operating height within the tube and infeed elbow.

US Patent:

57367205, Apr 7, 1998

Filed:

Aug 29, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/705220

Inventors:

Roderick L. Bell - Mesquite TX
David W. Bell - Mesquite TX

Assignee:

CM Support, Inc. - Dallas TX

International Classification:

H01H 900
H01H 4500

US Classification:

235 1B

Abstract:

A paintball game scorekeeper and an associated paintball game playing system. The paintball game scorekeeper includes a switch member having plural control buttons insertably mounted in a recess formed in a front side surface of a housing. A printed circuit board to which the control buttons are electrically connected is inserted in a recess formed in a rear side surface of the housing. Provided on the printed circuit board is a memory subsystem for holding a countdown time and at least one interim time, a processor subsystem for counting down, from the countdown time, time remaining in the on-going game of paintball until time expires and for determining first and second elimination counts, and an LCD display, electrically coupled to the processor subsystem, for displaying the time remaining in the on-going game of paintball, the first elimination count and the second elimination count. By selectively depressing the control buttons, the processor subsystem will start and stop the countdown of time remaining, record the time remaining in the memory subsystem as a flag time and increment or decrement the first and second elimination counts. By mounting the paintball game scorekeeper on a rear side surface of a bulk loader for holding paintballs, the paintball game scorekeeper forms part of a paintball game playing system which includes a paintball gun and the bulk loader and may be readily used by a participant in the on-going game of paintball without significantly disrupting the participant's ability to play.

US Patent:

D3931153, Mar 31, 1998

Filed:

Apr 12, 1996

Appl. No.:

D/053047

Inventors:

Roderick L. Bell - Mesquite TX
David W. Bell - Mesquite TX

Assignee:

CM Support, Inc. - Dallas TX

International Classification:

0899

US Classification:

D32 35