A little bit of history...
For those of you who didnt allready know, Autocockers used to be pump guns, until pneumatics (Pronounced: New-mat-icks) were added to the front of the gun to pump it for you. The Autococker was originaly designed by Glenn Palmer. Then Budd Orr, the founder of Worr Games Products (WGP) improved on Palmers design and apptly named it "The Autococker". So next time you hear the back block of your Autococker silently slide back & forth, thank Glenn, then Budd
Onward!How your Autococker works...
Despite what you may think, theres actually more going on inside that chunk of shiney metal than you think.
Note: To better make sence of this, please refer to the diagrams near the bottom of post to better understand what is actually happening.
When you pull that trigger the sear is lowered, allowing the hammer to fly forward and open the cup seal on the valve, which in-turn allows air to flow through the valve, up into the bolt, hence propelling the paintball out of your gun. And thats just the start. Right after your gun fires and you havent released the trigger yet, the pneumatics push the back block backwards, which does two things at once. First, it pulls the cocking rod back which cocks the gun; And secondly, it pulls the bolt back and allows another ball to fall into the chamber. As you release the trigger, the pneumatics get back to work and pull the back block back to it's initial position. The gun is now ready to shoot again. all of that happens in the matter of around a couple milli-seconds. Alot going on huh? Yeah, thats what i thought.
Helpfull Diagrams
Note on the diagrams: All of these diagrams represent autocockers with "Slide Triggers", all of the new cockers have "Hinge Triggers". The only differance between the two is this. With a slide trigger, when you pull the trigger it pulls the timinig rod back, and when you release the trigger it pushes it forward. But with a Hinge Frame Trigger, when you pull the trigger it pushes the timinig rod forward, and when you release it it pulls the timinig rod back. The only other differance is the position of the hoses coming out of the 3-Way, and going into the STO Ram. Everything else in the guns are the same.
- All the parts of an Autococker
- An animated version of the above image. Note: The blue stuff is air
- A 3D Autococker animation
I strongly suggest to anyone who wants to know more about cockers to check out this link. it's an animated Autococker, you click on a piece of the Autococker and it in-larges it and gives you some info on it; It's really cool, just check it out, trust me.
http://thecog.bizland.com/diagram.html
I would just like to congradulate you for reading my brief, but informative article on Autocockers. I hope it helped you, or atleast imiproved your Autococker Knowledge, I will be adding a section on timing Autocockers soon. If you see anything wrong/incorrect with what was said in this article, please inform me with a PM so I can fix it asap. Thx
