Pellet gun loading device

Claim 1

A dispensing device for loading pellets into the receiver of an air gun comprising: a circular housing having curvilinear wall portions, said wall portions including a pellet receiving aperture and a circumferentially disposed pellet dispensing aperture for mating and communicating with the receiver of the air gun; an elongated hollow storage tube having top, bottom and side walls for retaining and storing a plurality of pellets in a predetermined orientation, one end thereof being open for removably mating to said housing adjacent said pellet receiving aperture to permit pellets retained and stored in said storage tube to enter said housing; said bottom wall of said storage tube having an interior surface including a centrally disposed rib for maintaining said plurality of pellets in said predetermined orientation; a pellet dispensing wheel having a peripheral surface and parallel side wall surfaces rotatably disposed within said housing for circular movement therein, a portion of said peripheral surface of said pellet dispensing wheel being exposed through said housing curvilinear wall portions to permit an operator to rotate said pellet dispensing wheel within said housing; said peripheral surface of said pellet dispensing wheel including a longitudinal slot perpendicularly disposed to said side wall surfaces of said pellet dispensing wheel, said longitudinal slot opening outwardly of said pellet dispensing wheel and being dimensioned for retaining one of said plurality of pellets retained and stored in said storage tube; said housing further including a shaft aligned with said pellet dispensing aperture for mating with the receiver of the air gun; and said pellet dispensing wheel being rotatable within said housing between a first position in which said longitudinal slot is aligned with said pellet receiving aperture for receiving one of said plurality of pellets retained and stored in said storage tube and a second position in which said longitudinal slot is aligned with said pellet dispensing aperture for dispensing said received pellet through said housing shaft for insertion in a predetermined orientation into the receiver of the air gun while simultaneously preventing the remaining ones of said plurality of pellets retained and stored in said storage tube from entering said housing until a subsequent loading of the air gun.