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US 10,739,200 B2Granted
Paint switch test device and method
AssigneeTrue Hue, LLC
InventorsJamie B. Peltz, Robert F. Golownia
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AssigneeTrue Hue, LLC
InventorsJamie B. Peltz, Robert F. Golownia
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A paint swatch test device includes a transparent or translucent substrate, such as a sheet of polymeric material, and a plurality of different primer coating patches on the substrate. The patches preferably form a grayscale series of neutral white and gray primer patches having stepwise increments in light reflectance values. The patches can also be provided on an opaque substrate. The color suitability and/or hiding power of a topcoat paint desired to be applied to a surface to be painted can be determined by coating the topcoat paint on at least a portion of a surface of the transparent or translucent substrate, providing a grayscale series of patches between the paint coating and the surface to be painted, and observing the appearance of the paint coating where patches are beneath the coating and where patches are not beneath the coating.
A combination comprising a wall and a transparent or translucent sheet, the wall having a surface color, the sheet being located adjacent the surface color of the wall, the sheet being provided with a paint coating, the paint coating being one or more coats of a paint applied by brush or paint roller, the paint coating having a different color than the surface color of the wall, the combination further comprising a plurality of different primer coating patches located between the wall and the paint coating, the plurality of different primer coating patches being selected from the group consisting of patches of white and gray primer coatings, wherein the sheet, having the paint coating and being located adjacent the surface color of the wall, provides insufficient opacity to block the surface color of the wall so that at least some of the surface color of the wall bleeds through at least some of the sheet, and wherein the presence of the primer coating patches is effective to permit an observer, located adjacent to the wall, to visualize the color of the paint coating over (1) each of the primer coating patches and (2) the surface color of the wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.