Smart Parts applies for Pneu. Activ. Clip - Page 2

Azzy · 01-31-2008, 10:32 PM

Screencap and tehn crop (windows key + Prt Scr, then paste to your photo editor, crop and save)

RealtorTommy · 01-31-2008, 10:43 PM

I've tried everything in the book to get the image...they must have a patent on it....

...on other patents, not theirs I can grab them...but noooo....

sparky · 01-31-2008, 10:54 PM

I hate to say it, but this acually sounds like Smart Parts came up with their own idea for once. Air controlled clip/mag thingy, interesting idea.

d4rksabre · 01-31-2008, 11:15 PM

sounds like they're taking a page out of ATS's book and going a little further with it.

skiddish9999 · 01-31-2008, 11:17 PM

Welllllllll, if you patent others' work so much sooner or later you are gonna get a new idea. Just like putting a bunch of monkeys on typewriters, sooner or later they are gonna type one of shakespears' plays.

Skiddish

pizzaluvr · 02-01-2008, 12:20 AM

I had this idea a while ago and posted it on A5OG I believe... Lemme try to fish it up
EDIT: NVM, I just drew up the plans, didn't post them anywhere. Unless they hacked into my computer, they came up with it by themselves from what I can tell.

CamoDeafie · 02-01-2008, 12:48 AM

Does sound like the A-5/X7 cyclone feeder system but based on a system similar to Trinity's MG-4/Rap4 T68 gensomething mag fed marker line....wonder how would Tippmann Sports view this, and also BP-USA (Black Point Engineering, also known as Jet City Specialties, designers and makers of the XM-8 right before SP8 came out), since the XM-8 had provision in the design for a magazine feed but they elected to go with hopper for the time being... hm.

Azzy · 02-01-2008, 12:49 AM

Sounds like the pack that was shown at IAO back in 2001 or so, air pressure pushed balls up a flex hose, to a shocker turbo....

CamoDeafie · 02-01-2008, 01:09 AM

Whoops double post. >_< Azzy could u provide pictures of the said pack?

drg · 02-01-2008, 01:17 AM

Sigh, I had this idea a decade ago in college ... kind of in conjunction with a self-contained magazine idea. Snooze, lose, yadda yadda

Basically the idea is similar to how airsoft magazines work, with a long spring pressing on a long string of balls, except that you use regulated air behind a traveling piston or seal, that maintains constant pressure throughout the whole stack of balls. A long spring would be unrealistic for paintballs because of the fragility factor. Nice idea for paintball since we use compressed gas already.

There are a few design challenges, depending on the specifics... a regulator small enough to fit inside the mag, a reliable piston mechanism, air routing to supply the pressure chamber (onboard cylinder perhaps?)

01-31-2008, 10:32 PM	#11 (permalink)
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01-31-2008, 10:54 PM	#13 (permalink)
sparky MCB Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hinton Alberta	I hate to say it, but this acually sounds like Smart Parts came up with their own idea for once. Air controlled clip/mag thingy, interesting idea. __________________ Vote for Sparky! Miss MCB 2008!

02-01-2008, 12:20 AM	#16 (permalink)
pizzaluvr Post Whore Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Arkansas	I had this idea a while ago and posted it on A5OG I believe... Lemme try to fish it up EDIT: NVM, I just drew up the plans, didn't post them anywhere. Unless they hacked into my computer, they came up with it by themselves from what I can tell. __________________ MCB Feedback +26/-0 PBN Feedback +11/-0 Ought Nine Team Sale, Rapper, Legend, Ions, Vlo's, Magna, Gear I ball for Team Fracture B&E Paintball --- Wild World Paintball

02-01-2008, 12:49 AM	#18 (permalink)
Azzy Mod-O-Rator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Finleyville, PA	Sounds like the pack that was shown at IAO back in 2001 or so, air pressure pushed balls up a flex hose, to a shocker turbo.... __________________ Bryan "Azzy" Spiegel Riverside Renegade Paintball / C.C. S.V.S. Plankowner - LPPC#6 "It is my right to be uncommon—if I can. I seek opportunity—not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, “This I have done.” - Dean Alfange

02-01-2008, 01:09 AM	#19 (permalink)
CamoDeafie nelson fanboy Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Monmouth, Oregon	Whoops double post. >_< Azzy could u provide pictures of the said pack? Last edited by CamoDeafie; 02-01-2008 at 01:18 AM..

02-01-2008, 12:48 AM	#17 (permalink)
CamoDeafie nelson fanboy Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Monmouth, Oregon	Does sound like the A-5/X7 cyclone feeder system but based on a system similar to Trinity's MG-4/Rap4 T68 gensomething mag fed marker line....wonder how would Tippmann Sports view this, and also BP-USA (Black Point Engineering, also known as Jet City Specialties, designers and makers of the XM-8 right before SP8 came out), since the XM-8 had provision in the design for a magazine feed but they elected to go with hopper for the time being... hm.

02-01-2008, 01:17 AM	#20 (permalink)
drg Post Whore Join Date: Mar 2007	Sigh, I had this idea a decade ago in college ... kind of in conjunction with a self-contained magazine idea. Snooze, lose, yadda yadda Basically the idea is similar to how airsoft magazines work, with a long spring pressing on a long string of balls, except that you use regulated air behind a traveling piston or seal, that maintains constant pressure throughout the whole stack of balls. A long spring would be unrealistic for paintballs because of the fragility factor. Nice idea for paintball since we use compressed gas already. There are a few design challenges, depending on the specifics... a regulator small enough to fit inside the mag, a reliable piston mechanism, air routing to supply the pressure chamber (onboard cylinder perhaps?) __________________ My feedback: PBN Old-New / AO / CC / MCB Halfcocker.com - The site for all things halfblock/midblock cocker HawaiiPB.com - Paintball forums for the state of Hawaii Last edited by drg; 02-01-2008 at 01:27 AM..