JPH09179498A - Color sample card book for toning automobile repair paint - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a color sample card book for toning a paint which is compact and convenient for use. SOLUTION: Multiple different color sample coat plates are arranged and stuck on one face of a transparent semi-flexible plastic board 12 so that their side edges form at least a part of the side edges of the plastic board 12. Mirror images of corresponding paint recipes are printed on the adhesive faces of individual color sample paint plates in advance. A required number of unit cards 10 are bundled by a ring-like binder through the holes 14 punched at their corners.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a color-matching sample card book for paints used for repair painting of automobiles, especially passenger cars.

[0002] The paint color of a new car body that is shipped from the manufacturer to the market will be hundreds of colors even for domestic cars.
If the paint peels off or is damaged during use, that portion must be repaired with the same color paint. The manufacturer has a particular standard color specified for a particular car model, and repairers can get a color swatch for it. Therefore, if the coating colors of all the shipped vehicles are the standard colors, it will be possible to determine the toning composition for each vehicle type in advance based on the provided color sample and use it for actual work. However, in reality, it is inevitable that the paint applied to a new car will have slight variations depending on various conditions, so the repair paint is toned according to the paint color of the actual car already applied to the car to be repaired. Must.
However, this color matching work itself requires a high degree of skill,
Moreover, since there are many variations for a particular standard color, it takes a lot of time and effort.

Therefore, the repair paint manufacturer investigates the variations of each standard color of the vehicles that are actually on the market, classifies the variations, and then accurately reproduces each variation, and the color sample card and the corresponding paint formulation. A sample book that collects the tables is provided to repair companies in the form of albums. The repair company decides the type of variation of the car from the color sample card that reproduces some variations of the specified standard color of the requested car model, tones according to the corresponding paint formulation table, and uses that paint Repair it. As a result, the labor and time required for color matching can be greatly saved, and even an unskilled person can easily work.

However, the album-type color swatch book has some drawbacks. That is, on each page of the album, for example, there is a pocket on the right side in which the color samples are arranged vertically in a line and the card attached to the mount is stored in and out freely. However, in order to facilitate comparison with the painted surface of the actual vehicle, each color sample must have a certain area. Therefore, the number of color samples that can be stored on one page is actually limited. Then the past 5
Even covering only domestic cars released annually will bring about 1000 color samples. The album that houses all of them will be very bulky, not only inconvenient to carry, but also require a large space for storage. In addition, it is troublesome to take out some color samples from the album one by one and use them to find out the combination corresponding to the matching color sample from the album. Furthermore, it is necessary to replenish color samples and recipes for new car models, but the work is troublesome.

The present invention provides a new type of color swatch that reduces or eliminates the drawbacks of the existing album color swatches.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The color sample book of the present invention uses a semi-flexible transparent plastic substrate, and the color sample is adhered to the front side of the color sample book so that the composition table can be seen from the back side. Therefore, the transparent plastic card has such a shape and size that at least four different color sample coated plates (usually paper) of the same system having an appropriate area can be arranged side by side on the front side thereof. The method of arranging the color sample coated plate is arbitrary, but it is important to arrange it so that at least one side thereof occupies a part of the side edge of the transparent plastic card. Otherwise, it is not possible to apply the card to the body and directly compare the paint color of the sample with the actual car.

According to the present invention, a recipe for a specific color sample is printed as a mirror image at the position of the color sample to be bonded before bonding the transparent plastic substrate. In other words, the back side of the transparent plastic card is not used for adhering the color swatch coat or printing the recipe. However, when viewed from the back side, the formulation table can be read as a normal image through the transparent plastic. This prevents smearing of the print due to abrasion.

The color sample book of the present invention is thus constructed by rotatably bundling a large number of unit cards. Therefore, a hole can be punched in one corner of the card, and a one-touch type ring-shaped binder can be bundled through the hole.

In use, only the required card is rotated to be separated from the rest of the cards, and is applied to the body for color comparison.

According to the present invention, in addition to the fact that the determination of the colorimetric and the composition is remarkably simplified as described above, it is made compact as a whole, and it is not necessary to remove the individual cards one by one, so that there is a risk of scattering. Absent.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a front view of a unit card according to one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a rear view thereof.

In FIG. 1, the card 10 includes a transparent semi-flexible plastic substrate 12. The substrate 12 has a standard color specified by the manufacturer, for example, a sample coated plate 4 of four variations 6K8-10 to 6K8-13 for Toyota 16K8.
The sheets are adhered adjacent to each other in two rows and columns. The side edge of each coated plate coincides with the side edge of the substrate 12 and occupies a part thereof. As a result, the color comparison between each color sample coated plate and the actual vehicle body can be accurately performed.

Prior to adhering each color sample coated plate, a mirror image of the composition table shown in FIG. 2 is printed on the substrate 12. Therefore, the compounding table cannot be seen from the front side of the card 10 by being hidden by the coated plate, but can be seen as a normal image from the back side as shown in FIG.
Since the print surface is not exposed in this manner, it is possible to prevent the print from being unclear due to abrasion or the like.

The blending table shown in FIG. 2 corresponds to the color sample on the front side of the card at that position, and shows the type of the primary color paint to be blended and its weight part.

A hole 14 is punched adjacent one of the corners of the card 10 through which a ring of ring binder can be threaded. The color sample book is a bundle of a suitable number of individual cards 10 bound by a binder. For the ring type binder, it is convenient to use a key chain type binder that can open and close the ring with one touch. By bundling in this way, color comparison is possible simply by pivoting and applying the individual cards 10 to the body without having to separate them.

It is preferable that the plastic substrate is provided with small embosses protruding to the front side or the back side in several places of its margin. This helps prevent mutual blocking when the cards are stored in a stack.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a unit card of a color sample card book of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of a unit card of the color sample card book of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10: Unit card 12: Transparent plastic substrate 14: Punch hole

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A transparent semi-flexible plastic substrate having a plurality of different colored swatches adhered to one side thereof in an adjacent arrangement such that their side edges occupy at least a portion of the side edges of the substrate. , And a plurality of unit color sample cards in which a mirror image of the paint composition table corresponding to the color sample is printed on the adhesive surface of each color sample coated plate are bundled with a ring binder through punch holes provided in those corners. Color sample card book for toning paint for automobile repair. 2. The card book according to claim 1, wherein the plastic substrate has a plurality of embossed protrusions. 3. The card book according to claim 1, wherein the ring-type binder is a one-touch opening / closing type.