PNEUMATIC WEAPON Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: pneumatic weapon firing by spherical bullets. SUBSTANCE: the pneumatic weapon has a body with a handle, barrel with the load and return spring positioned on it, valve for supply of a portion of gas with the body communicating with a reservoir for gas, trigger with a pin, whose arm carries a lever-sear, magazine positioned in the handle. The body of the valve for supply of a portion of gas is fastened on the reservoir and together they are made in the form of a pneumounit quickly detachable from the weapon body, the reservoir is positioned above the body of the valve for supply of a portion of gas, has a device preventing liquid gas from getting into the valve body and is provided with a mechanism for filling it with carbon dioxide from standard cylinders, and the magazine is made in the form of a revolver drum with a cover oriented relative to its ducts installed on an axle with the central duct rigidly fastened in the weapon body and permanently filled with bullets held in it by the upper and lower catches, and connecting the bore and the radial receiving hole of the axle, the drum is mounted for a discrete fixed turn relative to the axle according to the number of the ducts and alternating communication of the drum ducts with the radial receiving hole of the axle, also accommodating the shuttle feeder kinematically linked with the trigger and bolt through the double-arm lever-sear installed on the trigger pin. EFFECT: enhanced reliability and operating characteristics of the weapon. 5 dwg