Writing instrument barrel including a painted inner surface
AssigneeYafa Pen Company
InventorYair Greenberg
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Abstract
A writing instrument barrel, comprising a body portion, which is generally tubular, and which has a hollow channel extending therethrough. It includes an inner surface, including a paint-adhering material applied to the inner surface for enabling paint to adhere thereto, and paint applied to the paint-adhering material on at least a portion of the inner surface of the body portion to form a painted inner surface. The hollow channel includes opposed ends and openings at the opposed ends thereof. The paint is able to be applied by a brush with paint on the tip thereof, which is able to be extended through the openings in the body portion.
Claims26
A writing instrument barrel, comprising:
- a body portion, which is generally tubular, which has a hollow channel extending therethrough, and which includes an inner surface, including a paint-adhering material applied to the inner surface for enabling paint to adhere thereto, and paint applied to the paint-adhering material on at least a portion of the inner surface of the body portion to form a painted inner surface, wherein the hollow channel includes opposed ends and openings at the opposed ends thereof, and wherein the paint is able to be applied, after the body portion is formed, by a brush with paint on the tip thereof which is able to be extended through at least one of the openings in the body portion.
A method of forming a writing instrument barrel, wherein the writing instrument barrel is able to comprise a body portion, which is generally tubular, which would include a hollow channel extending therethrough, and which would include an inner surface, including a paint-adhering material applied to the inner surface for enabling paint to adhere thereto, and wherein paint is able to be applied to the paint-adhering material on at least a portion of the inner surface of the body portion to form a painted inner surface, wherein the hollow channel would include opposed ends and openings at the opposed ends thereof, and wherein the paint is able to be applied by a brush with paint on the tip thereof which is able to be extended through at least one of the openings in the body portion, wherein the method comprises:
- forming the body portion;
- applying paint on the tip of the brush, extended through at least one of the openings in the body portion, to the paint-adhering material on at least a portion of the inner surface of the body portion, to form the painted inner surface after forming the body portion.
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