Patent Application
20160114343
The present invention relates to a supply of fluid such as air and more particularly to a handheld air gun which may be in the shape of a pistol.
Pressurized air or other types of fluid has many purposes. Pressurized air may be used for cleaning hard to reach areas from dust and other lightweight debris. There is a need for the source of pressurized air to be portable.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,752,335 discloses that blow-guns are commonly used to remove debris in a work environment, including for example in the engine compartment of a vehicle. When the area requiring the attention of a blow-gun is directly accessible, a standard linear barrel is generally sufficient. However, certain hard-to-reach or obstructed places may be shielded by the blast of air from the linear barrel of a standard blow-gun. Because areas of use vary greatly, it has been heretofore necessary to have multiple blow-guns of variously configured fixed barrels.
The use of two or more separate blow-guns requires disconnection of a pressurized air hose to the intake of one blow-gun and then subsequent reconnection of the pressurized air hose to the intake of a second blow-gun. This procedure is both time and labor-intensive and often requires a delay in work. Moreover, this procedure is largely unnecessary since the handle of a blow-gun serves the same function (i.e. receiving air from a pressurized air source via the air intake and then distributing the air to the barrel attachment) regardless of the barrel attached thereto.
This patent discloses a single blow-gun having a pivoting barrel capable of achieving non-linear configurations can respond to any number of different situations in a work environment, without the cost and inconvenience of maintaining a plurality of blow-guns having differently-configured fixed barrels. Similarly, this patent discloses that a blow-gun with a quick-connect attachment device can allow for the easy swapping of barrel attachments, such as pivoting, telescoping, swiveling, fixed length, etc., thus enabling the use of a single blow-gun with many attachments instead of multiple separate blow-gun units.
The handheld airgun/blowgun of the present invention is the may be a handheld electric compressed air gun or a handheld electric airgun which may be in the shape of a conventional drill. The handheld airgun may include a multitude of chambers or cavities in order to store the above described components. For example, the handheld airgun may include a power cavity to house the power supply which may be interchangeable and pluggable into the motor cavity to house the motor. The motor cavity may be connected to the turbine compressor cavity which may include the turbine and the compressor to generate compressed air for the storage tank. The turbine compressor cavity may be connected to the tank cavity which may house the storage tank and the valve.
A nozzle may be connected to the valve in order to direct the pressurized air (fluid).
The invention may be understood by reference to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which, like reference numerals identify like elements, and in which:
While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof have been shown by way of example in the drawings and are herein described in detail. It should be understood, however, that the description herein of specific embodiments is not intended to limit the invention to the particular forms disclosed.
