Pellet gun conversion adapter

Abstract

An apparatus that modularly adapts gas blowback pellet guns to fire pellets from automatic electric gun pellet gun magazines. Embodiments comprise ones that route high-pressure air into a gas frame disposed in a GBB gun magazine well, without tapping either of the gun and the magazine. The apparatus contemplates alternative gas frames, each being at least one having a shape selected from a plurality of shapes adapted to engage the magazine wells of desired GBB guns. The apparatus comprises at least one magazine adapter that is modularly and alternately engageable and disengageable with the gas frame. The apparatus also contemplates alternative adapters, ones that are alternately engageable and disengageable with any of multiple alternative gas frames. The apparatus contemplates embodiments that are alternately disengageable from GBB guns without compromising the gun to receive GBB magazines directly, and ones which allow the HPA source connection to instead receive propulsion sources, comprising pre-compressed gases from a list comprising air reservoirs, compressed CO2 and green gas and other high-pressure gas reservoirs.

I claim: 
     
         1 . An apparatus for gas blowback (GBB) pellet guns having a magazine well, and for magazines of automatic electric gun (AEG) pellet guns, comprising:
 a gas frame, and   a magazine adapter,   the gas frame being configured to engage with the magazine well of a GBB pellet gun, and   the magazine adapter being adapted to engage with an automatic electric gun pellet magazine.   
     
     
         2 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , the apparatus being configured to fire pellets contained in the AEG magazine with gas pressure provided to the apparatus from a contained pressurized gas source. 
     
     
         3 . The apparatus of  claim 2 , the apparatus further being configured to alternately disengage a first magazine and engage a second magazine without disconnecting the gas pressure source from the apparatus. 
     
     
         4 . The apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein the gas pressure source is a pressurized gas reservoir that allows for gas blowback firing. 
     
     
         5 . The apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein the gas pressure source is a high-pressure air source. 
     
     
         6 . The apparatus of  claim 5 , wherein the high-pressure air source is a remote high-pressure air source that provides high pressure air to the apparatus by a high-pressure-air line. 
     
     
         7 . The apparatus of  claim 6 , wherein the high-pressure air line enters the apparatus between the adapter and the body of the gun. 
     
     
         8 . The apparatus of  claim 7 , wherein the high-pressure air line enters the apparatus between the adapter and the underside of the gun by the high-pressure air line entering the gas frame. 
     
     
         9 . The apparatus of  claim 8 , wherein the gas frame comprises and upper section and a midsection, the line entering the gas frame by entering the midsection of the gas frame. 
     
     
         10 . The apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein the pressurized gas source is provided to the apparatus by being provided to the gas frame of the apparatus. 
     
     
         11 . The apparatus of  claim 10 , wherein the pressurized gas source is provided to the apparatus without tapping a magazine or tapping the gun. 
     
     
         12 . The apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein the apparatus is alternately removable from the magazine well of the gun, alternately removable by removal of the apparatus, such that the gun can receive in its magazine well gas blowback magazines for the gun and magazines for other GBB guns having magazine wells of similar size and shape, and such that the gun can be fired by GBB firing, without any modification. 
     
     
         13 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is configured to alternately engage and disengage an AEG magazine from of a variety of alternative magazines for the gun and for guns having a particular size and shape of magazine well that is predominantly identical in size and shape to the magazine well of the gun. 
     
     
         14 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , the gun being a first gun, and wherein the apparatus further comprises at least one additional adapter that is configured to engage with an AEG magazine of a second AEG gun, the second gun having a magazine well with a size and shape that is dissimilar to the magazine well of the first gun. 
     
     
         15 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , the gun being a first gun, and further comprising at least one additional adapter configured to engage with an AEG magazine of greater capacity than AEG magazines of AEG versions of the first gun and which is not proprietary to any particular pellet gun. 
     
     
         16 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , the gun being a first gun, and further comprising at least one alternative gas frame that is sized and shaped to engage with the magazine well of a second gun having a magazine well, the magazine well of the second gun being of a dissimilar size and shape to the magazine well of the first gun. 
     
     
         17 . An apparatus for gas blowback (GBB) pellet guns having a magazine well, and for magazines of automatic electric gun (AEG) pellet guns, comprising:
 a gas frame, and   a magazine adapter,   the gas frame being configured to engage with the magazine well of a GBB pellet gun, and   the magazine adapter being configured to engage with an automatic electric gun pellet magazine.