Pellet gun conversion adapter

Abstract

An apparatus that modularly adapts gas blowback pellet guns to fire pellets from automatic electric gun pellet gun magazines. Embodiments comprise ones that route high-pressure air into a gas frame disposed in a GBB gun magazine well, without tapping either of the gun and the magazine. The apparatus contemplates alternative gas frames, each being at least one having a shape selected from a plurality of shapes adapted to engage the magazine wells of desired GBB guns. The apparatus comprises at least one magazine adapter that is modularly and alternately engageable and disengageable with the gas frame. The apparatus also contemplates alternative adapters, ones that are alternately engageable and disengageable with any of multiple alternative gas frames. The apparatus contemplates embodiments that are alternately disengageable from GBB guns without compromising the gun to receive GBB magazines directly, and ones which allow the HPA source connection to instead receive propulsion sources, comprising pre-compressed gases from a list comprising air reservoirs, compressed CO2 and green gas and other high-pressure gas reservoirs.

Claims

1. An apparatus for gas blowback (GBB) pellet guns having a magazine well, and for magazines of automatic electric gun (AEG) pellet guns, comprising: a gas frame, and a magazine adapter, the gas frame being configured to engage with the magazine well of a GBB pellet gun, and the magazine adapter being adapted to engage with an automatic electric gun pellet magazine.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, the apparatus being configured to fire pellets contained in the AEG magazine with gas pressure provided to the apparatus from a contained pressurized gas source.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, the apparatus further being configured to alternately disengage a first magazine and engage a second magazine without disconnecting the gas pressure source from the apparatus.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the gas pressure source is a pressurized gas reservoir that allows for gas blowback firing.

5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the gas pressure source is a high-pressure air source.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the high-pressure air source is a remote high-pressure air source that provides high pressure air to the apparatus by a high-pressure-air line.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the high-pressure air line enters the apparatus between the adapter and the body of the gun.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the high-pressure air line enters the apparatus between the adapter and the underside of the gun by the high-pressure air line entering the gas frame.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the gas frame comprises and upper section and a midsection, the line entering the gas frame by entering the midsection of the gas frame.

10. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the pressurized gas source is provided to the apparatus by being provided to the gas frame of the apparatus.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the pressurized gas source is provided to the apparatus without tapping a magazine or tapping the gun.

12. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the apparatus is alternately removable from the magazine well of the gun, alternately removable by removal of the apparatus, such that the gun can receive in its magazine well gas blowback magazines for the gun and magazines for other GBB guns having magazine wells of similar size and shape, and such that the gun can be fired by GBB firing, without any modification.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is configured to alternately engage and disengage an AEG magazine from of a variety of alternative magazines for the gun and for guns having a particular size and shape of magazine well that is predominantly identical in size and shape to the magazine well of the gun.

14. The apparatus of claim 1, the gun being a first gun, and wherein the apparatus further comprises at least one additional adapter that is configured to engage with an AEG magazine of a second AEG gun, the second gun having a magazine well with a size and shape that is dissimilar to the magazine well of the first gun.

15. The apparatus of claim 1, the gun being a first gun, and further comprising at least one additional adapter configured to engage with an AEG magazine of greater capacity than AEG magazines of AEG versions of the first gun and which is not proprietary to any particular pellet gun.

16. The apparatus of claim 1, the gun being a first gun, and further comprising at least one alternative gas frame that is sized and shaped to engage with the magazine well of a second gun having a magazine well, the magazine well of the second gun being of a dissimilar size and shape to the magazine well of the first gun.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) The embodiments are illustrated by way of example and not limitation in the figures of the accompanying drawings in which like references indicate similar elements.

(2) FIG. 1 shows a diagram of two gas blowback pellet guns of the prior art.

(3) FIG. 2 shows several magazine adapters set of an exemplary apparatus embodiment of the present invention.

(4) FIG. 3A shows an exemplary assembled gas frame, magazine adapter, and magazine apparatus embodiment of the present invention.

(5) FIG. 3B shows an exemplary assembled gas frame, magazine adapter, and magazine apparatus embodiment of the present invention.

(6) FIG. 3C shows an exemplary assembled gas frame, magazine adapter, and magazine apparatus embodiment of the present invention.

(7) FIG. 3D shows an exemplary assembled gas frame, magazine adapter, and magazine apparatus embodiment of the present invention.

(8) FIG. 3E shows an exemplary assembled gas frame, magazine adapter, and magazine apparatus embodiment of the present invention.

(9) FIG. 3F shows an exemplary assembled gas frame, magazine adapter, and magazine apparatus embodiment of the present invention.

(10) FIG. 3G shows an exemplary assembled gas frame, magazine adapter, and magazine apparatus embodiment of the present invention.

(11) FIG. 4 shows an exemplary assembled apparatus embodiment of the present invention, installed in a gas blowback pellet gun.

(12) FIG. 5 shows an exemplary assembled apparatus embodiment of the present invention, installed in a gas blowback pellet gun.

(13) FIG. 6 shows an exemplary assembled apparatus embodiment of the present invention, installed in a gas blowback pellet gun.

(14) FIG. 7 shows an exemplary assembled apparatus embodiment of the present invention, installed in a gas blowback pellet gun.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

(15) The following description and drawings are illustrative and are not to be construed as limiting. Numerous specific details are described to provide a thorough understanding. However, in certain instances, well known or conventional details are not described in order to avoid obscuring the description. References to one or an embodiment in the present disclosure are not necessarily references to the same embodiment; and, such references mean at least one.

(16) Reference in this specification to one embodiment or an embodiment means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the disclosure. The appearances of the phrase in one embodiment in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. Moreover, various features are described which may be exhibited by some embodiments and not by others. Similarly, various requirements are described which may be requirements for some embodiments but not other embodiments.

(17) Referring now to FIG. 1, two popular gas blowback (GBB) BB-pellet-guns are shown. These are an M4/M-16 GBB replica Rifle (7) (hereafter M4) and an AK-47 GBB replica Rifle (9) (hereafter AK). Each of these rifles have several popular alternative magazines, all of which are compatible in particular to the shape of the gun specific to the replica. The guns receive proprietarily sized and shaped magazines into their respective magazine wells (66 and 67). The M4 well 66 is much wider and shallower than the AK well 67.

(18) With respect to each gun, alternative magazines are predominately identical in exterior geometry to the magazines for bullets that are specific to each of the bullet-firing guns that each gun replicates, respectively. Not shown here are the GBB-enabling magazines that are designed to provide pellets to these GBB guns, so that they are able to fire according to their original GBB mode of operation.

(19) Referring now to FIG. 2, what is shown is an exemplary apparatus embodiment of the present invention, comprising several gas frames (21 and 23) and magazine adapters (25, 26, 27, 29). The exemplary M4 frame 21, AK frame 23, quick-connect M4 magazine adapter 25, compact M4 magazine adapter 26, AK magazine adapter 29, and AEG drum magazine adapter 27 are each assembled and arranged to be alternately engageable with one another (as combinations of a gas frame shape and magazine adapter), to provide various parallel and alternative configurations between several existing guns and magazines.

(20) The M4 frame 21 comprises a two-piece construction, an upper section 82 and a midsection 84. The AK frame 23 also comprises a two-piece construction, an upper section 83 and a midsection 85. This two piece construction allows for a single gas frame to support other adapters later, as the field develops, and to allow for potential alternative propulsion sources to be used in the same apparatus, as desired. One contemplated example would be independently removable gas canisters, which may require a longer or differently shaped midsection.

(21) Referring to FIGS. 3A-G, what are shown are exemplary assembled embodiments of several adapters and frames. Each of the embodiments is engaged with a popular but merely exemplary magazine for Automatic Electric Gun (AEG) versions for each of the M4 and AK replica rifles.

(22) The embodiment in FIG. 3A provides an M4 frame 21 with an AEG M4 magazine 53 by using a quick-connect M4 magazine adapter 25.

(23) The embodiment in FIG. 3B provides an M4 frame 21 with an AEG M4 magazine 53 by using a compact M4 magazine adapter 26.

(24) The embodiment in FIG. 3C provides an M4 frame 21 with an AEG AK magazine 55 by using an AK magazine adapter 29.

(25) The embodiment in FIG. 3D provides an M4 frame 21 with a non-proprietary AEG drum magazine 57 by using a drum magazine adapter 27.

(26) The embodiment in FIG. 3E provides an AK frame 23 with an AEG M4 magazine 53 by using a compact M4 magazine adapter 26.

(27) The embodiment in FIG. 3F provides an AK frame 23 with an AEG AK magazine 55 by using an AK magazine adapter 29.

(28) The embodiment in FIG. 3G provides an AK frame 23 with a non-proprietary AEG drum magazine 57 by using a drum magazine adapter 27.

(29) Referring now to FIGS. 4-7 show exemplary alternatively assembled and arranged apparatus embodiments of the present invention, installed in either M4 or AK GBB pellet guns.

(30) FIG. 4 and FIG. 6 show a GBB M4 gun (7), as fitted with apparatus embodiments of the invention inserted in the M4 well 66 that comprises an M4 frame 21, showing the midsection 84, and an HPA pressure line 61 entering the M4 frame 21 from the rear of the midsection 84.

(31) The embodiment in FIG. 4, though, uses a quick connect M4 adapter 25 to connect the midsection 84 to an AEG M4 magazine 53, while the embodiment in FIG. 6 uses a drum adapter 27 to connect the midsection 84 to an AEG drum magazine 57.

(32) FIG. 5 and FIG. 7 show a GBB AK gun (9), as fitted with apparatus embodiments of the invention inserted in the AK well 67 that comprises an AK frame 23, showing the midsection 85, and an HPA pressure line 61 entering the AK frame 23 from the rear of the midsection 85.

(33) The embodiment in FIG. 5, though, uses a compact M4 adapter 26 to connect the midsection 84 to an AEG M4 magazine 53, while the embodiment in FIG. 7 uses a drum adapter 27 to connect the midsection 84 to an AEG drum magazine 57.

(34) In the foregoing specification, the disclosure has been described with reference to specific exemplary embodiments thereof. It will be evident that various modifications may be made thereto without departing from the broader spirit and scope as set forth in the following claims. The specification and drawings are, accordingly, to be regarded in an illustrative sense rather than a restrictive sense.