Patent ID: 7757681

Claim:
A paintball gun regulator for receiving high pressure gas from a gas canister and outputting lower pressure gas to a paintball gun body, the regulator comprising: a hollow valve body defining an open end and a supply opening; a plug seat fixed in the valve body, the plug seat and the valve body together defining a fluid pathway between the supply opening and the open end; a piston subassembly removably secured to the open end over a secured engagement range; a plug in the pathway and complementary to the plug seat; a first coacting member on the plug and a second coacting member on the piston subassembly, wherein the members coacting such that the plug is offset from the plug seat to allow flow through the fluid pathway between the supply opening and the open end when the piston subassembly is fully assembled with respect to the valve body and the plug is received at the plug seat to block flow through the fluid pathway between the supply opening and the open end when the piston subassembly is less than fully assembled with respect to the valve body and wherein said secured engagement range is greater than said offset.