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US 4,030,414 AGranted
Wall decorating paint applying device
OwnerJames T. McGuireinventor
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Abstract
A wall decorating paint applying device which is composed of a one piece, unitary, soft, compressible, resiliently self-restoring, sponge body having a relieved, design defining, paint imprinting, face. The opposite side of the body is formed with an integral, finger grippable, sponge handle portion for manually handling the device in applying paint to the imprinting face and thereafter correctly positioning the face in compression on a wall surface to be decorated.
Claims2
A wall-decorating paint-applying device comprising:
- a one-piece block-shaped unitary, soft compressible, resiliently self-restoring, sponge body having a deformable cellular paint retaining and applying face formed with relieved portions defining a decorative design to be applied to a wall or the like and a rear side;
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- means to enable flexing of said body and face to enable selected substantially undistorted parts of said design to be applied to said wall surface, said means including elongated finger-receiving recesses formed in said rear side, each recess capable of receiving a plurality of fingers, said rear side being opposite and substantially parallel to said face, said recesses leaving therebetween an elongated, integral, finger-grippable soft compressible sponge handle portion substantially flush with said rear side for manual squeezing and handling of said device and pressing of said face onto a wall surface to be decorated, the flexibility and compressibility of said handle portion providing flexing of said body and face.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.