Special effect paint roller

In a paint roller having an inner core with an outer generally cylindrical surface and an outer, annular paint roll medium extending around the inner core and affixed to the inner core for rotation therewith, the outer medium being resilient in the radial direction;

• the improvement wherein the paint roller further comprises an intermediate layer of resilient material between the inner core and the outer medium, and wherein the outer annular medium comprises a flexible sheet of non-porous material having a surface area significantly greater than the area of the outer surface of the inner core, the outer medium, in its relaxed state, being a loosely compacted three-dimensional shape of the flexible sheet of material having an irregular outer surface with a plurality of raised areas extending irregularly in various directions, the flexible sheet of non-porous material overlying the intermediate layer of resilient material, and the intermediate layer of resilient material increasing the resiliency of the outer medium.

In a paint roller having an inner core with an outer generally cylindrical surface and an outer, annular paint roll medium comprising a layer of resilient porous material extending around the inner core and affixed to the inner core for rotation therewith, the outer medium being resilient in the radial direction;

• the improvement wherein the outer medium, in its relaxed state, has an irregular outer surface with a plurality of raised surface areas extending irregularly in various directions, the raised surface areas comprising non-porous areas on the outer surface of said layer of resilient porous material.

In a paint roller having an inner core with an outer annular surface and a radially resilient, outer, annular paint roll medium extending around the inner core and affixed to the inner core for rotation therewith;

• the improvement wherein the outer medium has an outer annular surface comprising surface areas of resilient porous material and surface areas of non-porous material.