Assembly and method for taping walls for painting stripes and patterns

An assembly for painting stripes and patterns on a wall comprising:

• a first elongated body defining a first straight outer edge and a first inner edge and having a first body length defined by a first end and an opposing second end;
• a second elongated body defining a second straight outer edge that is in a direction opposite of a direction of the first straight outer edge and a second inner edge facing towards the first inner edge of the first elongated body, the second elongated body having a second body length defined by a first end and an opposing second end;
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• two arms each having a first end rotatably coupled to the first elongated body at a fixed position thereon and a second end rotatably coupled to the second elongated body at a fixed position thereon, the two arms being parallel to each other, each arm being rotatable in a plurality of selectable angled positions and with each rotatable coupling of each arm to the first and second elongated bodies being co-linear in all angled positions, each of the arms being a linear structure between the first end and the second end having the same arm length dimensioned to space the first elongated body apart from the second elongated body such that the first straight outer edge is a taping distance from the second straight outer edge with the taping distance being variable responsive to the rotated angled position of the elongated bodies relative to the arms, the taping distance being maximized at a right angled position and increasingly decreases as the deviation of the rotated angled position from the right angle position increases and wherein the first outer edge is maintained in a parallel position to the second outer edge during rotation of the first and second elongated bodies relative to the arms in the plurality of angled positions and variable taping distances.

A method for painting stripes and patterns on a wall comprising:

• selectively rotating first and second elongated bodies relative to two or more coupled arms having linear bodies into an angled position of the elongated bodies relative to the connecting arms that is not a right angle, and which is selected from among a plurality of angled positions only one of which includes a right angle, the two elongated bodies and the two or more coupled arms forming a taping assembly, each arm of the taping assembly having the first elongated body defining a first straight outer edge and having a first body length with a first end and an opposing second end, the second elongated body defining a second straight outer edge that is in a direction opposite of a direction of the first straight outer edge, the second elongated body having a second body length with a first end and an opposing second end, at least one arm each of the two or more arms having a first end rotatably coupled to the first elongated body at a first coupling and a second end co-linearly aligned at an opposing end of the arm from the first end and rotatably coupled to the second elongated body at a second coupling, with each rotatable coupling of each arm to the first and second elongated bodies being co-linear in all of the plurality of angled positions, the first and second couplings of each arm with the two elongated bodies being co-linear, each elongated body being rotatable relative to the coupled arms in a plurality of angular positions, each of the arms having an arm length spacing the first elongated body apart from the second elongated body such that the first straight outer edge is a taping distance from the second straight outer edge, the rotating among the plurality of angular positions maintaining the first and second elongated bodies in parallel alignment to each other and the rotating of the elongate bodies relative to the arms is maximized at a right angled position and increasingly decreases as the deviation of the rotated angled position increases from the right angled position;
• selectively fixing the rotated spaced apart parallel position of the first elongated body relative to the rotated second elongated body of the assembly and the selectively rotated angled position;
• positioning the assembly on the wall to be painted with the stripe or pattern with the arms in a substantially level position and the two elongated bodies being in the selected angled position wherein the elongated bodies are not plumb;
• applying a first tape along an elongated portion of the wall adjacent to the first outer edge;
• applying a second tape along an elongated portion of the wall adjacent to the second outer edge;
• removing the assembly from the wall;
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• painting a surface of the wall between the first tape and the second tape.

An assembly for painting stripes and patterns on a wall comprising:

• a first elongated body defining a first straight outer edge and a first inner edge and having a first body length defined by a first end and an opposing second end and having an elongated arm mounting slot formed in the body longitudinally along a portion of the first elongated body proximate to the second end thereof;
• a second elongated body defining a second straight outer edge that is in a direction opposite of a direction of the first straight outer edge and a second inner edge facing towards the first inner edge of the first elongated body, the second elongated body having a second body length defined by a first end and an opposing second end and having an elongated arm mounting slot formed longitudinally along a portion of the second elongated body proximate to the second end thereof;
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• two arms with each arm having a linear assembly between a first end rotatably coupled at a fixed position proximate to the first end of the different ones of the two elongated bodies and a second end opposing the first end, the second end being rotatably and slidably coupled at a variable point within the arm mounting slot of the elongated body that is not rotatably attached to the first end of the same arm, the rotatable coupling of each arm to the first and second elongated bodies being co-linear, each arm having a co-arm coupling mounting slot and the two arms being rotatably coupled by a slidable coupling that is variably positionable within each of the co-arm coupling mounting slots of the two arms and wherein movement of the second ends within the elongated arm mounting slot rotates the first arm relative to the second arm and along one or both of the co-arm coupling mounting slots for establishing the taping distance from among a plurality of taping distances and the taping distance being variable responsive to the rotated angled position of the elongated bodies relative to the arms and wherein the first outer edge is maintained in a parallel position to the second outer edge during rotation of the first and second elongated bodies relative to the arms in the plurality of angled positions and variable taping distances.