Painting method with long-napped wool covered rollers
AssigneeWagner Spray Tech Corporation
InventorSusan A. Jackson
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Abstract
A paint applicator and method for applying a decorative finish to a surface including a dual roller handle and a pair of roller covers formed from long-napped wool, each roller cover mounted for independent rotation on the dual roller handle. When at least two paints having at least one different visually perceptible characteristic are respectively simultaneously applied to the surface by the pair of long-napped wool roller covers using the handle in an overlapping and arcing motion the decorative finish results. The resulting decorative finish is substantially similar to a surface finish created by a wool pad applicator, but is applied in much less time and with much less effort than that created by the wool pad applicator.
Claims12
A method of quickly applying a soft and subtle decorative finish to a location that includes a relatively smooth and planar surface and an inner corner formed by an intersection of two surfaces, the decorative finish having a substantially similar look as textured decorative finishes formed by much more time consuming methods, the method comprising the steps of:
- a. providing first and second paint roller application regions formed from long-napped natural sheepskin wool, with the first and second paint roller application regions mounted on a roller handle;
- b. absorbing at least one first and at least one second paint into the natural sheepskin of the first and second paint roller application regions, respectively, the first paint having at least one visually perceptible characteristic that is different from the second paint;
- c. causing absorbent and only temporary agglomerations of fibers of the natural wool at an outer surface of each of the first and second paint application regions by rolling the first and second paint application regions over the surface in an overlapping motion resulting in deposits of the first and second paints being laid onto the surface in randomly varying amounts, shapes and orientations, and at least partial blending of some of the first and second paint deposits that are overlaid and intermixed with each other with at least some non-blended first and second paint deposits overlaid upon blended paint deposits, resulting in an uneven painted decorative finish on the surface;
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- d. continuing the uneven painted decorative finish into the corner by:
- i) aligning the first and second paint roller application regions axially with the intersection between the two surfaces;
- ii) applying deposits of the first and second paints simultaneously to the corner by pressing the first and second paint roller application regions into the intersection such that the long-napped wool of the first and second paint roller application regions contacts the two surfaces and the intersection simultaneously;
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- iii) repeating the application of the first and second paints in the corner in an overlapping manner, by rotating the roller handle 180 degrees to facilitate overlapping of the first and second paints, resulting in deposits of the first and second paints being applied onto the two surfaces and the intersection in randomly varying amounts, shapes and orientations with at least partial blending of some of the first and second paint deposits that are overlaid and intermixed with each other, and with at least some non-blended first and second paint deposits overlaid upon blended paint deposits.
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