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US 4,692,975 AGranted
Paint roller
OwnerJaime A. Garciainventor
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Abstract
A paint roller is comprised of a thermoplastic tubular core and a cover fabric heat-fused thereto without an intermediate adhesive. The fabric is wound around the core in a helical path, and the core is heat-softened in the zone of winding to fuse the fabric to the core as it is wound thereon.
Claims3
In a paint roller including a tubular core and a fabric cover on said core, the improvement comprising:
- the tubular core comprising a thermoplastic material;
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- the fabric cover being heat fused to the surface of the core by heat softening said thermoplastic material without an intermediate adhesive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.