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EP3023031B1
EP3023031B1 EP14194160.9A EP14194160A EP3023031B1 EP 3023031 B1 EP3023031 B1 EP 3023031B1 EP 14194160 A EP14194160 A EP 14194160A EP 3023031 B1 EP3023031 B1 EP 3023031B1
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Alessandro Nespoli
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B9/00—Arrangements of the bristles in the brush body
    • A46B9/02—Position or arrangement of bristles in relation to surface of the brush body, e.g. inclined, in rows, in groups
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B2200/00—Brushes characterized by their functions, uses or applications
    • A46B2200/20—Brushes for applying products to surfaces in general
    • A46B2200/202—Applicator paint brush
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B3/00—Brushes characterised by the way in which the bristles are fixed or joined in or on the brush body or carrier
    • A46B3/08—Brushes characterised by the way in which the bristles are fixed or joined in or on the brush body or carrier by clamping
    • A46B3/10—Brushes characterised by the way in which the bristles are fixed or joined in or on the brush body or carrier by clamping into rings or the like
    • A46B3/12—Brushes characterised by the way in which the bristles are fixed or joined in or on the brush body or carrier by clamping into rings or the like specially adapted for paint-brushes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46D—MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES
    • A46D1/00—Bristles; Selection of materials for bristles
    • A46D1/02—Bristles details
    • A46D1/0207—Bristles characterised by the choice of material, e.g. metal

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  • the present invention is directed to a paint brush in accordance with the preamble of claim 1.
  • paint brushes In the prior art there are generally known paint brushes. Within the brushes there are distinguished paint brushes and brushes for cleaning purposes, e.g. tooth brushes and the like.
  • Brushes for cleaning purposes differ from paint brushes in that their bristles have a high stiffness making it possible to scratch away particles which adhere at a surface to be cleaned.
  • the bristles are usually fixed at a bristle carrier such that a clearance is formed in between the bristles, e.g. the bristles are not in contact with each other. It is also possible that there are formed groups of bristles and that between the groups of the bristles there is formed the clearance for discharging the particles.
  • Paint brushes are usually made of bristles having a smaller stiffness than the bristles used for brushes for cleaning purposes. Essentially, all adjacent bristles of a paint brush are in contact with each other. The bristles form a bristle pack or brush head, respectively, which is able to hold therein a paint by adhesion as well as capillary forces. When painting the brush head is pressed onto the surface to be painted by the hand of the operator. Thereby, the bristles are bent and the paint being held between the bristles is forced to flow out of the brush head as it is moved along the surface to be painted.
  • Common paint brushes have a bristle head made of bristles having a length of 4 to 11 cm.
  • the bristles are usually natural bristles, e.g. a root diameter in a root section of the bristles is typically between 0,17 and 0,35 mm, whereas a tip diameter in a tip section is in the range of 0,11 to 0,13 mm.
  • WO007034156 discloses the preamble of claim 1.
  • Another A paint brush in accordance with the preamble of claim 1 is known from US 5,220,702 .
  • the known paint brush is composed of a core of short thick hairs with long fine hairs surrounding said core and substantially longer stiff bristles dispersed throughout said core of thick hairs.
  • the known paint brush is used to draw very fine lines.
  • US 2005/0229346 A1 discloses a paint brush having a brush head containing a continuum of bristles configured from a plurality of primary short bristles and secondary longer bristles with split and smaller diameter distal extremities.
  • Conventional paints having a high content of volatile organic components are recently more and more replaced due to legal restrictions by modern paints having just a small content of volatile organic components or even no volatile organic components.
  • a coating made of a modern paint and being applied by a conventional paint brush has a poorer surface quality than a coating made of a conventional paint.
  • bristle an elongated flexible body having just one first end and just one second end.
  • the first end is part of a root section where the bristle is fastened in a bristle carrier.
  • Said root section may have a length of 5 to 10 mm.
  • root diameter there is understood an average diameter of the bristle in the root section.
  • a second end of the bristle forms a free tip which usually contacts a surface to be coated with paint.
  • the second end is part of the tip section of the bristle.
  • the tip section has a length of 5 to 10 mm.
  • tip diameter there is understood an average diameter of the bristle in the tip section.
  • essentially all bristles there is understood that at least 80%, preferably at least 90%, and most preferably at least 95% of the adjacent bristles are in direct contact with each other.
  • a plurality of bristles is fastened to said bristle carrier such that essentially all adjacent bristles are in contact with each other.
  • the bristles form a pack or bristle head, respectively.
  • the pack is a continuum where essentially all bristles are in contact.
  • the first bristles surround at least partly the second bristles and thereby laterally support the second bristles in order to keep them upright.
  • the "stiffness" or bending stiffness, respectively, can be measured e.g. with a bending stiffness measurement apparatus which is e.g. provided by the company Lorentzen & Wettre GmbH. 10 pieces of bristles are measured in analogy to DIN 53121 which describes the determination of the bending stiffness measured in accordance with the beam method (see also ISO 2493). The bending stiffness is measured in centinewton (cN).
  • a 50 mm long bristle is clamped in jaws of the measurement apparatus at a distance of 1,0 mm to a load sensor.
  • the bristle is then bent up to an angle of 30° and again back to 0° while a maximum force is measured in cN.
  • Such modern paint is also called "low-VOC paint” and may be e.g. an acrylic paint, an acrylic lacquer, a water-based lacquer and the like.
  • d is in the range of 5 to 15 mm, preferably in the range of 6 to 9 mm.
  • the first bristles may have a first tip diameter in the range of 0,1 to 0,2 mm.
  • the second bristles may have a second tip diameter in the range of 0,04 to 0,08 mm.
  • first and the second bristles may be made of the same material. This allows a cheap and easy production of the paint brush.
  • the first and the second bristles have a uniform physico-chemical behavior with respect to the paint or a solvent.
  • the first and the second bristles may be made of a natural or a synthetic material.
  • the natural material can be e.g. hog or goat bristles or bristles of other animal.
  • the synthetic material may be selected from the following group: PE, PA, PET, PBT.
  • the synthetic material may be mixture of the aforementioned materials.
  • the bristles may have a conical or cylindrical shape.
  • bristles made of a synthetic material may have the following cross sections: solid, hollow, trilocular, quadrilocular.
  • the material may be provided with small holes, the total volume of which may be in the range of 10 to 30 Vol.%.
  • the tip section of the bristles may be treated mechanically or chemically. The tip section may be tipped or flagged.
  • a weight ratio between a first weight W1 of the first bristles and a second weight W2 of the second bristles may satisfy the following relation: W 1 / W 2 ⁇ 1.
  • first weight W1 there is understood the total weight of all first bristles contained in the bristle head
  • second weight W2 there is understood the total weight of all second bristles contained in the bristle head
  • the weight ratio W1/W2 may be in the range of 0,4 to 0,8, preferably in the range of 0,5 to 0,7.
  • the first weight W1 of all first bristles may be 30 to 50% of the total weight of the bristles.
  • the second weight W2 of all second bristles may be 50 to 70% of the total weight of the bristles. It has turned out that by a paint brush having first and second bristles in the aforementioned weight ratio there can be manufactured a coating with an excellent surface quality when using modern paints.
  • Figs. 3 to 5 are views of paint brushes in accordance with the present invention.
  • the paint brush is of "T"-form. It incorporates a handle 1 with as bristle carrier e.g. a ferrule 2 attached to one end of the handle 1 and a brush head 3 secured in the ferrule 2. Paint brush handles 1, ferrules 2 and methods of securing the paint brush head 3 in the ferrule 2 are known in the art.
  • the brush head 3 is composed of first bristles 4 and second bristles 5. As can be seen in particular from Fig. 4 the first bristles 4 have a first length L1 and the second bristles 5 have a second length L2.
  • RS indicates a root section of the bristles 4, 5.
  • the root section RS comprises the end section of the bristles 4, 5 which is fixed by the ferrule 2 and a glue 2a at the handle 1.
  • Reference sign TS1 indicates a first tip section of the first bristles 4, and reference sign TS2 indicates a second tip section of the second bristles 5.
  • a first tip diameter of the first bristles 4, being an average diameter in the first tip section TS1 may be in the range of 0,1 to 0,2 mm.
  • a second tip diameter of the second bristles 5, being an average diameter in the second tip section TS2 may be in the range of 0,06 to 0,08 mm.
  • a second length L2 of the second bristles 5 is greater than a first length L1 of the first bristles 4.
  • the difference d L2 - L1 is advantageously in the range of 6 to 9 mm.
  • the second bristles 5 are in contact along an essential part of their second length L2 with the first bristles 4.
  • the first bristles 4 having a higher stiffness and a greater diameter than the second bristles 5 laterally support the first bristles 5 and keep them in an essentially upright position.
  • the second bristles 5 can be dispersed uniformly within a pack formed by the first bristles 4.
  • a pack being formed of first 4 and second bristles 5 forms a core 6 which is surrounded by a wrap 7 consisting just of first bristles 4.
  • a weight ratio in the mixture of first 4 and second bristles 5 is preferably in the range of 0,5 to 0,7.
  • a first weight W1 of the first bristles 4 is preferably in the range of 35 to 45 wt%.
  • a second weight W2 of the second bristles 5 is preferably in the range of 55 to 65 wt%.

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  1. Pinsel, umfassend:
    einen Handgriff (1) mit einem Borstenträger (2) an seinem einen Ende,
    und eine Vielzahl von Borsten, die an dem Borstenträger (2) so befestigt sind, dass im Wesentlichen alle nebeneinanderliegenden Borsten in Kontakt miteinander sind,
    wobei die Vielzahl der Borsten erste Borsten (4) mit einer ersten Länge L1 und zweite Borsten (5) mit einer zweiten Länge L2 aufweist,
    wobei die erste Länge L1 und die zweite Länge L2 die folgende Beziehung erfüllen: L 2 − L 1 = d ,
    Figure imgb0007
     wobei d ein Wert zwischen 4 und 18 mm ist, und
    die ersten Borsten (4) eine erste Steifheit aufweisen, die höher ist als eine zweite Steifheit der zweiten Borsten (5),
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    die ersten Borsten (4) einen größeren Durchmesser aufweisen als die zweiten Borsten (5).
  2. Pinsel nach Anspruch 1, wobei d im Bereich von 5 bis 15 mm, vorzugsweise im Bereich von 6 bis 9 mm liegt.
  3. Pinsel nach einem der vorherigen Ansprüche, wobei die ersten Borsten einen ersten Spitzendurchmesser im Bereich von 0,1 bis 0,2 mm und die zweiten Borsten einen zweiten Spitzendurchmesser im Bereich von 0,04 bis 0,08 mm aufweisen.
  4. Pinsel nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, wobei die ersten Borsten (4) und die zweiten Borsten (5) aus dem gleichen Material hergestellt sind.
  5. Pinsel nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, wobei die ersten (4) und zweiten Borsten (5) aus einem natürlichen oder einem synthetischen Material hergestellt sind.
  6. Pinsel nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, wobei das synthetische Material ausgewählt ist aus der folgenden Gruppe: PE, PA, PET, PBT oder einer Mischung davon.
  7. Pinsel nach einem der vorherigen Ansprüche, wobei ein Gewichtsverhältnis zwischen einem ersten Gewicht W1 der ersten Borsten (4) und einem zweiten Gewicht W2 der zweiten Borsten (5) die folgende Beziehung erfüllt: W 1 / W 2 ≤ 1.
    Figure imgb0008
  8. Pinsel nach Anspruch 7, wobei W1/W2 im Bereich von 0,4 bis 0,8, vorzugsweise im Bereich von 0,5 bis 0,7 liegt.
  9. Pinsel nach einem der vorherigen Ansprüche, wobei in einem Querschnitt durch ein aus allen Borsten (4, 5) gebildetes Paket ein Kern (6) ausgebildet ist, umfassend die zweiten Borsten (5), die in den ersten Borsten (4) verteilt sind, wobei der Kern (6) von einer Umwicklung (7) umgeben ist, bestehend aus den ersten Borsten (4).
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