I invented a Paintball Marker!

[pekingduck04]

My unrelenting bordome and monstrous amount of free time has allowed me to bask in my computer screen and absorb loads of information. Paintball is my passion! ... architecture is my life!(well, training-to-be)

Newho, my infatuation with creating things ended up with me designing a new paint gun! By tearing apart friend's guns when they are not looking I've been able to become very familiar with the engineering of these little things... enough that i have made many sketches and cad renderings of my creation.

Now I begin... my perilous journey to create the best paintball marker in the world. No, in the universe! But there lies a problem...
How the heck do i build the little bugger?
I am not a mechanic, airsmith, OR a Tom Kaye II... I am only a boy with a massive imagination and keen observation.

Would I share with you fellows?? Then I would be afraid of thievery! What if someone with the means and the know-how stole my work and expoited for his/her/its gain!? How would I POSSIBLY have one built without theft!!? Please let me know!

I will share a tidbit of information with you.. but if I see this in a new marker months from now I will have your heads! OR right testicles!

It resets using blowback
It has NO bolt
It has an accessable breech similar to Angels


Help me and I shall frolick about my bedroom in appreciation of your generosity!!

~Scott

[FalconGuy016]

Thats awesome, but what do you want us to do ? (assuming you want us to do something?)

Ah, nm, I get it. Keep in mind the expense you will have to invest if you do choose to build your marker

[Duck Hunt]

Well, I know you're probably need a CNC machine, if you don't want it stamped metal like tippmanns. Aren't Xmags milled on a 4 axis CNC?

As for going about making it, you can contact people who DO make markers or marker bodies and contract them into making a prototype, therefore you could sign a non-disclosure agreement so you won't have too worry about theivery =)

Good luck my friend!

Sean

[jwalker87]

I would apply for a patent. After you get that, approach an existing paintball company with your idea and see if they want to buy the rights from you. That's what I'd do.

[WenULiVeUdiE]

I am in the same situation. I have a great idea for a new gun and barrel. But only 2 people know about my designs. All I can recomend is get a patent, get a prototype and advertise. Sell a few then go to companies. This will show them that your gun will be succesful and people will buy it. Company's like ideas tha will succeed, not fail.

[pekingduck04]

Thank you for your advice!
jwalker your idea seems to me the most practical, and is perhaps the most intelligent for someone in my position.

Duck hunt I will have to look into this non-disclosure agreement; I am very interested!

Ah patents take so very long.. just look at the hAir trigger. I am eighteen of age, therefore I am ambitious, optimistic, but tremendously impatient! I sincerely hope the design itself will overshadow my inexperience and lack of resources.

WenUlive best of luck to you.. may we both succeed and achieve our goals! Then my idea will beat yours to a bloody pulp!! scram!

~Scott

[rx2]

Whilst you can find lots of information online, you would also do well to contact a lawyer who specializes in this sort of thing. Hopefully you will be able to find one that will consult with you for cheap. If you are lucky, you may have connections that you just aren't aware of.

Of course, you should definately get all of your information as together as possible, in the meantime. This includes all sorts of sketches, diagrams, and written out explainations. And, while it doesn't necessarily hold up on its own, it can actually help to mail all of your information to yourself, and leaving the envelope sealed once you get it back post-marked with a date.

I know someone who went through the patent process, and you should expect to spend many a night working into the wee hours, even on the pre-patent applications.

[Glickman]

"It resets using blowback
It has NO bolt
It has an accessable breech similar to Angels "


look around first, that sounds like either an alien (alienpb.com)

or an epic.

(http://www.icepaintball.com/products.htm)

one problem is that the prototype for most guns costs 2-2.5 times more than the end result, as will the following prototypes. so if your looking to put it into production, you should make sure you know what your getting into.


i could be wrong, but isnt blowback and boltless impossible?

[pekingduck04]

Ah mR Glick you are quite mistaken on many counts.

Not to mention, dear sir, that you'v accidentally pointed yourself as a hypocrit! You notioned that the epic is blowback, boltless, AND swing open breech (which, by the way, only the second is true) and then proceeded to say that blowback and boltless cannot go together.

Thank you, though, for introducing me to this trap-door design!

Ah, money can always be worked out.

~Scott

[RtDaNiMaL]

Hey Scott,
sounds nice... if u need some one to mill you a body let me know, some friends and me make excelent things and his dad has a masters degree in machinery, so he can mill anything.

[vf-xx]

I'm a Senior in Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech. I'll happily sign a non-disclosure agreement, and if it's feasable I'll proto it in our machine shop here.

[CaptainChops]

On the Tippmann forums, this post would have been a 12 year old talking about rigging a rubber band gun to shoot paint...

On PBN, this would have been a massive flame-fest...

hehe I LOOOOOOVE AO...!!

[MantisMag]

hehe. i came in here expecting another 13yr old with drawings done in marker. though since we haven't seen anything i can't really say this is any better.

[tjmpaintball06]

anyone know if the epics actually shot good? could they keep up with an emag? i always wondered about them. Can u still buy them?

[WenULiVeUdiE]

Good luck to you as well. Without a working, good looking prototype and many interested in your gun, Im not sure if a company will "buy" your idea. You may also want to make sure it isnt easy to change a small part so they dont have to buy yours, the can "create" their own.

Consult a lawyer before you go to a company. Without a lawyer bad things can happen.