Patent ID: 7441556

Claim:
A paintball feeding apparatus comprising: a paintball reservoir; a housing mounted under the paintball reservoir and defining an inlet opening communicating with the paintball reservoir such that paintballs can move from the paintball reservoir though the inlet opening, and the housing defining an outlet opening at a front end thereof adapted to be connected to a paintball gun feed tube; a right twist auger and a left twist auger rotatably mounted in the housing in a substantially parallel relationship wherein pockets are formed between flights of each auger, the pockets configured to receive and maintain a paintball in each pocket such that a line through centers of paintballs in the pockets is substantially parallel to a rotational axis of the augers and aligned with the outlet opening; a drive operative to rotate the right twist auger and the left twist auger in opposite directions such that a paintball in a pocket moves in a forward direction; and a drive control operative to activate the drive.