US1794671A

US1794671A - Method of decorating and apparatus therefor

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Publication number: US1794671A
Application number: US420530A
Authority: US
Inventors: Fred F Conwill
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1930-01-13
Filing date: 1930-01-13
Publication date: 1931-03-03
Anticipated expiration: 1948-03-03

Description

March 3, 1931. F. F. coNwlL-L METHOD OF DECORATING AND APPARATUS THEREFOR Filed Jan. 13, 1930 l nI/l/l/l/l/V/A llllllullll-lfll'l ll I ll R m m m asses sieeaieeif Q. a j d 1 794 671} FRED r. 'ooixiwrrin, or BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA;

METHOD on nnooimgrne AND nrPARArUs THEREFOR.

Application filed. January 13, 1930 Serial No. 420,530.

The general object of the present invenliquid material comes in contact with the tion is to provide a simple, effective, exdry strips of colo'ringmaterial 1n the brush peditious and inexpensive method of productheybeg1n-tod1ssolve slowly and as-the brush 7 ing multi-color decorative finishes and irm- 18 applied to a surface as you would an ordi- 5 tating fine wood finishes and tapestries. nary paint b h a f f 0 ar 5' The inventionfurther proposes to simplifyv applied simultaneously and in a more skillful and improve the methods heretofore emway than could be done by an art st. Thus; ployed for graining of, wood and the slrilla O mg' 0f lacquer n as many color S- f l bh li f l d till f th pr9- desired is produced smiultaneously in one 10 poses to accomplish combinations of these operatlonp 60 effects simultaneously in one operation upon The lollng effects-or woods have been th Surface t b d t d imitated by what is known as graimng. The above and other objects-are accom- This process usually requires the application lished by instrumentalities pointed out in f two ground coats, one grammg coat th f ll i Specification grained-With grainingdevices, and then a 65 The invention 18 clearly defined 1n the 9 6051i? t0 P G e grillnlng Coat from claims. 1 being scratched. These four operations re-' A satisfactory embodiment of the invenq re l y -f Coats for d a ns tion is illustrated in the acompanying draw fi 5H1 qu PTOPOIUOH f abOr,-Wh1le the 20 j Yf j t f th ifi ti d i present. invention accomplishes the whole 0 which graining process in one operation, andsince Figure 1 is aperspecti i f a lti it s done with lacquer, the coating driesin color b h h i th f f th b h about thlrtymmutes. Further efliciency 1s and a fragment of a surface being decorated o g Out 111 pp y ng a number of colors in accordance with the present method Y to a Wall Surface, Such is now l d Till? 75 Figure 2 is a cross section front view of Work, in thatthe job may be Fi 1, quickly and the colors all applied simul- Figure 3 1s a cross section end view of taneously. 7 Fi 2 As the straps of colorlng material shown Figure 4 is a cross section side view of in Figure 2 at -4 We r o n, the strips 80 a Fi r 2, may be pushed farther through and trimmed In carrying out th-e present invention use 05 at the n s they push Out. The strips 1 is made of a brush Figure 1, having open- Of 0010? y be 111 h form a roll n ings through the ba f th t l; a h w fed through as needed as shown in Figure 4.

in Figure 8, through which strips of sol bl Although I have shown and described one '85 coloring material are inserted as shown in elnbodnnent of my invention, is-to be un- Figures 24. The solublecolo-ring material derstood that the same is. susceptible of may be made of pigmented lacquer and may various changes; and I reserve the right to be formed into strips by merely dipping a employ such as may come within the scope 40 cotton string in the wet pigmented lacquer of the appended claims. 90

and allowing time to dry. Almost any kind I Claim: of fibrous material may be used as a carrier '1. That step in the art of decorating which or reinforcement for the strips of coloring consists in forming strips of dry soluble material. It is evident thatas many strips coloring material and inserting them through of coloring material and. as many colors as "the bristles of a brush then in applying a 95 desired may be inserted in the brush. Now, liquid solvent material such as a liquid lacwhen the brush is loaded with suitable colquer with the brush, causing the colors to disors, I dip it into a pot of liquid lacquer or solve slowly as a coating of lacquer and colsolvents of a suitable character, depending ors are applied simultaneously to a suron the kind of job to be done. When the face. m0

2. A decorators brush, comprising a brush proper and means for inserting strips of dry coloring material through the bristles of the brush.

3. A decorators brush comprising a brush proper and means for inserting and feedin strips ojfdry coloring material through the bristles of the brush as the brush is used in applying a liquid coating material.

4. A decorators brush comprising a brush proper and strips of dry coloring material and means for allowing the coloring material to be fed through the bristles as a liquid coating is being applied.

Signed at Berkeley, in the county of Alameda and State of California, this'eighth day of January, A. D. 1930. v

' FRED CQNVVILL.