Paintball target range

Abstract

A paintball shooting range includes a housing, a plurality of shooting booths each set with a paintball marker and located at a first end of the housing, a control area located at the first end of the housing and shielded with paintball-proof means, a target area set with targets and located at a second end opposite to the first end of the housing, and at least one of: (1) maker restraining means for mechanically restraining the movement of the paintball marker; (2) paintball dispensing means for selectively and automatically dispensing paintballs to the paintball marker; and (3) cleaning means for automatically cleaning at least the target area. In addition, a trailer may constitutes the housing and a truck for transporting the trailer.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The invention generally relates a paintball shooting system for facilitating the practicing or playing of paintball markers(guns) include, alone or in combination, a target subsystem, a paintball marker firing subsystem, a paintball dispensing subsystem, and a range cleaning subsystem, and a range transporting subsystem. In particular, the target range can be fixed in one location or moveable to different location by being loaded on a trailer. [0003] 2. DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ARTS [0004] Being fast paced and competitive, fun and safe, paintball is one of the fastest growing sports in America with more than seven million participants. [0005] U.S. Pat. No. 3,884,471 describes a shooting gallery including a gun pivotally mounted on a board connected with the targets which are hit via concealed pneumatic means rather than any pellets. In this case, there is no pellet to be shot or re-loaded, and there is not any paintba...

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Benefits of technology

[0017] It is another purpose of this invention to provide a more convenient system for transporting, and cleaning a paintball shooting range to attract more people to the sport.

[0018] It is another purpose of this invention to provide safer way to shoot paintballs via a paintball shooting range installed with non-human targets.

[0019] It is another purpose of this invention to provide a system for easily managing the dispensing of paintballs so as to charge fee accordingly.

[0020] It is another purpose of this invention to allow manufacturers to actually let consumers experiment with various prototypes (markers in particular) at trade shows in a safe environment by using the mobile / immobile Paintball Shooting Range.

[0022] It is another purpose of this invention to be used as a tool to help promote and market paintball as a sport and entertainment as well as allow less adventurous consumers to participate without the possibility of physical harm.

Problems solved by technology

The loader is designed only to feed a gun and be moved along with the gun, and it has no means for counting dispensed paintballs.

The carriers are designed only to feed a gun and have no means for counting dispensed paintballs.

However, all paintballs inevitably go to the same marker.

There is not a dispensing system to dispense paintballs to a plurality makers or a paintball counting mechanism to count the number of paintballs dispensed to each individual marker.

However, it merely cleans the barrel rather than any shooting range.

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