Today's word, boys and girls, is new patent

[TOOLE]

So this is basically a marker that chronos itself every shot?

I'm perfectly alright with them patenting this, it's a bad idea anyway, and it's unsafe.

Suppose you got a freak ball in your paint that wha a coupla bore sizes too small? it would fir at, say 250fps when the marker was set at 290. the gun would adjust itself to fire faster next time and the next regular ball would come out at 330 fps, which is illegal.

I wonder how they would overcome that?

 

[L J]

i would *hope* they overcame that by taking an average of shots

 

[Jon S]

Maybe it's intended to only come into effect in order to reduce shootdown? If hypothetically your shots started to drop off consitently (sp?) by say, an average of 5 or 10 fps, the board could then increase the dwell so that the velocity returns to a desired level. Could that be counterproductive, though? As increasing the dwell should affect the RoF, which is what we're trying to maintain! It would also have to return to the default dwell as soon as the firing rate dropped, otherwise you'd end up again with a hot gun.

I do agree with Toole, though. I can only see this working if you had amazingly consistent paint...which would mean you wouldnt need the chrono adjusting it anyway.

 

[L J]

personally i dont see much point in a self chronying gun, it just means more room for an aftermarket product to take advantage of it, we all know how easy it is to manipulate gun boards now!

how much effort is it really to take a set of allen keys on the field, or set your gun at 285, rather than tweaking it to 298, so when its been sitting around for 10 minutes in the sun, it wont shoot 310

 

[Furby]

Larry Cossio has a patent application in for the barrel condom...

Johnathan Call and Craig Miller are attempting to patent an improved airball bunker retention system...when I initially read the patent application, I thought it was on airball bunkers themselves, but the illustrations cleared that up for me.

Gotta give credit to SP for making people think....

 

[Hotpoint]

Originally posted by Baca Loco
Your pals at Smart Parts are busy beavers. Check out the latest--

US Patent #6,644,29
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1='Dynamic+Paintball+Gun+Control'&OS=

Newsflash

Today it was announced that Smart Parts had patented "The Wheel". A spokesman for the manufacturer of paintball equipment stated "Well we'd already successfully patented various other pieces of machinery which had already been produced by other people so the Wheel seemed the next logical choice"

Smart Parts have already served notice on every automobile manufacturer that they will take legal action unless paid royalty for each "Wheel" that is produced. So far only Citroen have agreed to do so

Lawyers for General Motors are unavailable for comment although sources inside the Detroit giant say they are worried

 

[Mikey D]

LMAO

dont speak too soon, i wouldnt be surprised.

 

[jonhaley]

I'm not sure that these anti SP posts are fair. Guys, this is a business. Only with companies like SP pushing hard to make paintball bigger business will the world take the sport more seriously.

Everyone in the world has the opportunity to use the patent system. If you put a product on the market without securing your IP rights first then thats just foolish.

Lets not go putting SP down just cos they've got decent business-minded people running the show.

Thats my two pence anyway.