Patent ID: 8579209

Claim:
A gas powered fluid gun system for propelling a stream or slug of a fluid at a high velocity towards a target, the system comprising: a gun barrel having a central bore, an open front end, an open rear end, a side, and an opening through the side for conveying fluid into the central bore; a fluid storage tank for containing a fluid that is pressurized with a gas at a pressure greater than ambient pressure; a fluid supply line for supplying pressurized fluid from the fluid storage tank to the opening in the side of the gun barrel; a fluid ejection valve disposed in the fluid supply line, for controlling flow of the pressurized fluid from the fluid storage tank to the opening in the side of the gun barrel; and a recoil mitigation means for: a) intercepting a rearward-moving stream of the fluid exiting from the rear end of the gun barrel, b) changing the direction of the rearward-moving stream.