Abstract

Pepper spray devices with insert-molded soft touch grips. The soft touch grip is disposed on an outer surface of a body for operatively receiving a product cannister. The soft touch grip forms a soft gripping surface on an outer surface of the body that is sized and shaped to conform to the shape of a user's palm and fingers wrapped around the outer surface of the body. The soft touch grip includes a front grip pad and a rear grip pad, each disposed in a respective recess in the outer surface of the body. The front and rear grip pads are overmolded into the recesses. One or more undercuts in the body mechanically secure the soft touch grip to the body.

IPC Classes  ?

• B05B 15/63 - Handgrips

Abstract

An air gun, a removable magazine for an air gun, and associated methods. The air gun includes a safety mechanism that in a safety-on position prevents the trigger from actuating the firing mechanism and closes the gas supply duct, and in a safety-off position enables the trigger to actuate the firing mechanism and opens the gas supply duct to enable actuating the firing mechanism with compressed gas to fire a projectile. The removable magazine includes, a projectile feeder, a cavity for a gas canister, a push valve for selectively releasing pressurized gas from the gas canister, and a valve actuator. The valve actuator includes a socket that releasably receives a nipple of a gas supply coupling carried by an air gun, forms a seal with the nipple, and opens the aerosol valve when coupled with the gas supply coupling.

IPC Classes  ?

• F41A 17/00 - Safety arrangements, e.g. safeties
• F41A 17/46 - Trigger safeties, i.e. means for preventing trigger movement
• F41B 11/56 - Magazines for compressed-gas gunsArrangements for feeding or loading projectiles from magazines the projectiles being stored in stacked order in a removable box magazine, rack or tubular magazine the magazine also housing a gas cartridge

Abstract

Dispensing systems, dispensers, and methods for dispensing a pressurized product from a container. Such a dispenser includes a cap, a nozzle within the cap so as to be translatable relative to the cap, an actuator within the cap so as to be translatable relative to the cap and relative to the nozzle, and a biasing member that urges the actuator and nozzle apart from each other. The nozzle is configured to attach to a valve stem of a canister and has a passageway through which the pressurized product is dispersed. The dispenser has a partially actuated position following a first actuation stage resulting from the actuator being translated until the actuator abuts the nozzle without causing the nozzle to translate, and a fully actuated position following a second actuation stage resulting from the actuator being further translated to cause the nozzle to simultaneously translate with the actuator.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 83/20 - Actuator caps
• B65D 83/14 - Containers for dispensing liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers comprising propellant
• B65D 83/46 - Tilt valves

Abstract

Dispensing systems, dispensers, and methods for dispensing a pepper spray or other irritant from a container. Such dispensers include a cap, a nozzle within the cap so as to be translatable relative to the cap, an actuator within the cap so as to be translatable relative to the cap and relative to the nozzle, and a biasing member that urges the actuator and nozzle apart. The nozzle is configured to attach to a valve stem of a canister and has a passageway through which the pepper spray is dispersed. The dispenser has a partially actuated position following a first actuation stage resulting from the actuator being translated until the actuator abuts the nozzle without causing the nozzle to translate, and a fully actuated position following a second actuation stage resulting from the actuator being further translated to cause the nozzle to simultaneously translate with the actuator.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 83/20 - Actuator caps
• F41H 9/10 - Hand-held or body-worn self-defence devices using repellant gases or chemicals