Patent ID: 8291894
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: F41B

Abstract:
1. A dispenser for loading pellets, each having a head and a skirt, into a pellet gun without a user having to touch the pellets, comprising: an open ended tube having a proximal end and a distal end for holding the pellets in a line and in longitudinal orientation within the tube with the head of each longitudinally oriented pellet positioned toward the distal end of the tube and the skirt of each longitudinally oriented pellet positioned toward the proximal end of the tube; a retention device at the open distal end of the tube for holding an end pellet in the tube, the retention device comprising at least one escapement tab extending through the side of the tube engaging the end pellet for retaining the pellet in place until it is pushed out of the dispenser; a plunger located proximally at the end of the pellet line in communication with a last pellet in the pellet line for pushing the longitudinally oriented pellets toward the distal end of the tube to eject the end pellet at the distal end of the tube to the pellet gun, the plunger comprising a handle extending outside the tube and sliding longitudinally along the side of the tube for dispensing pellets, the plunger extending from the point of communication with the last pellet inside the tube to the handle; a slot in the side of the tube for the plunger to follow as it is advanced toward the distal end of the tube as the plunger ejects each pellet; and a removable pellet seating device for advancing a dispensed pellet into a firing chamber of a break barrel design pellet gun, the seating device comprising a threaded pin, one end of the pin shaped to fit the skirt of a pellet, the pin disposed in a threaded hole in a cap attachable to the tube, the cap cut off at a right angle to the axis of the pin for aligning the end of the cap flush against the entrance to the firing chamber, and the pin adjustable in extension beyond the cut off end of the cap by turning the pin in the threaded hole, for locating the pellet at substantially the same position in the firing chamber each time the seating device advances a pellet into the firing chamber.