High capacity paintball hoppers and loaders and paintball feeder combinations with quick disconnect, permanent and integral connection configurations

摘要

A range of High Capacity Paintball Pod Hopper or Loader housings for use with a conventional paintball gun with attached paintball feeder core egg housing. The said Pod Hopper housing has an enclosed end and an open end in contact with the paintball feeder core egg housing and facilitates for gravity feed transfer of paintballs to the paintball gun firing chamber. The said Pod Loader housing has an enclosed end and an open end in contact with the paintball feeder egg housing and facilitates power transfer of paintballs to the paintball gun firing chamber.;The said Pod Hopper and Pod Loader housings includes the means for connecting the said housings to paintball feeder egg housings by means of a quick connector such as bayonet fittings, and also using one of glued, mechanical fastener. A plurality of the said hoppers and loaders can be arranged to be connected to at least one of the front proximal end and the rear distal end of the paintball feeder egg housing.;In a further embodiment the high capacity paintball loader housing and integral feeder hopper housing is provided for a paintball gun. The loader housing has an enclosed end and an open end integrally connected to the feeder hopper housing and facilitates rapid transfer of paintballs to the paintball firing chamber located in the paintball gun. The high capacity loader includes the means for permanently connecting the loader to the paintball gun feeder hopper housings. A plurality of loaders can be integrally connected to at least one of the front proximal end and/or rear distal end of the feeder hopper housing. A range of paintball force feeder mechanisms are disclosed wherein the paintball feed rate can be regulated and alternatively provide means for user interface to set feed speed settings to improve the transfer of paintballs from the pod hopper to the paintball firing chamber.