Shape retaining stencil for three dimensional image placement
OwnerAngelo J. Casaleinventor
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Abstract
A guide is disclosed, for the placement of images on non-flat objects and surfaces, useful in schools, business, industry and homes, of a moldable, shape-retaining material on which have been placed a plurality of holes defining a pattern, the material is fit against the non-flat object, marks are made through the holes of the sheet as a stencil directly onto the non-flat surface, after which the dots are connected to provide the pattern on the surface. Words, letters, faces, cartoons, any image, can be placed uniformly upon a number of such objects, which can be balloons, paper cups, pipes, walls, or any non-flat surface. The guide can be a foil, a sheet, a fabric, with or without supplemental shape-retainment structure or material content.
Claims16
A connect-the-marks guide for image placement, comprising
- a sheet of moldable, shape-retaining material,
- said material being composed of fibers arranged mesh-like in a grid to define a natural fiber spacing of already-present spaces between said mesh-like fibers, and
- said sheet defining a plurality of holes arranged to suggest a pattern,
- said holes being an enlargement of selected said already-present spaces formed by expansion of a plurality of said already-present spaces.
A method of placing an image upon a non-flat surface, comprising
- providing a moldable, shape-retaining sheet of material,
- shaping said sheet to fit against a non-flat surface,
- forming a pattern of holes on said sheet,
- placing said sheet against said non-flat surface,
- marking dots on said non-flat surface through said holes on said sheet,
- removing said sheet from said non-flat surface and
- drawing a connection between adjacent pairs of dots on said non-flat surface, whereby an image defined by said step of drawing a pattern of holes on said sheet is placed upon said non-flat surface.
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