DISPOSABLE FILM PLASTIC PAINT TRAY LINERS

PELLICULES EN MATIERE PLASTIQUE JETABLES POUR GARNIR L'INTERIEUR D'UN BAC A PEINTURE

English Abstract

ABSTRACT
There is a definite need for a functional but inexpensive
disposable paint tray liner today to cheaply avoid the time-
consuming and messy task of cleaning out a paint tray. Our
disposable film plastic paint tray liner fills this need. Presently,
the only disposable paint tray liner on the market is made of rigid
plastic and shaped in the form of an actual paint tray. The rigid
plastic liner resembles a paint tray within a paint tray when in use
and retails for approximately fifty cents This is relatively
expensive in comparison to our disposable liner. Our film plastic
paint tray liner, in contrast, is not as bulky as the paint tray in
which it is used and can be produced and retailed for a few cents.
This lack of bulk also makes our liner very easily disposable.
Our liner also has an important feature that no rigid liner
can match. When paint is being absorbed by the roller, our liner
has a slight tendency to adhere to the roller. This slight adhesion
by our liner causes the paint to be more evenly distributed along
the roller. The result is a virtually no-drip roller with excellent
paint distribution on the surface being painted (no streaking).
Our liner is also paint-saving in that the paint goes on the
roller very evenly and consequontly on the surface being painted
very evenly with no excess of paint.
Our liner is also size adaptive. Even though paint tray
manufacturers differ marginally in the size dimensions of their
small trays (up to 1/2 inch in length and width), our small tray liner
would fit all makes of small trays simply by letting the adhesive
strips stick higher or lower onto the paint tray as required for a
proper fit. The overlap and flexibility of our liner enables this
possibility. The rigid liners only fit the paint trays for which
they are specifically manufactured.
We regard the feature described in the second paragraph as
the paint helping quality of our liner.

Claims

CLAIMS
The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property
or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. A form fitting, size adaptive, paint helping disposable liner
for paint trays comprising a film plastic having peel-off adhesive
stickers bonded to the liner, adapted to secure said liner to said
tray.
2. The liner of claim 1 wherein said liner is substantially of
the thickness of a garbage bag.
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Description

Our ~ verlt.iorl ls cl(iiæ~)o~;cli~le t'ilm pl~lsti.c paint tray liner.
I~'i.lm pl.fl~.t:ic is a plasti.c ~Jhich is lesa -tha~1 ().01() incn thi.ckreææ.
()ur liner wi].l. pref'erabl.y be made of the sclme mater:i~l that is
used in the manufclcturing of traæh or garbage bagæ, anothor uæe of
film plasticO ()ur liner w:ill cover the erltiIe interlor of the p~int
tr.~y with a ~light ove.rlap arouncL the top edgeæ~ :[t will h~ s(-,cured
to the tray with pe~ off adhesive stlckers; the same 1~ind usecl
commerciall.y .Ln the 1~lanufacturi.ng of disposab].e diaper.. 'I.'he places
in which the stickers wi:1l adhere to the tray f'or ease o~
ins-tallat:ion as welL as t`or æecu~ity, wlll be the -t~o ir~si.de bottom
co.rneræ :in the c~eep elld of' the tray and the upper ext(~r.Lor wal:1s of
the -tray. r~'he sl;i.ckers wi1l be bonded to the lirLer material. Our
dis~oæable fi].in plastic paint tray :Liner will rlagate time-consuming
paint -tray cleanirLg. It will also elimina-te the meæs~ It will al.so,
because the liner has a slight tendency to adhere to the roller, put
the paint on -the roller very everlly. Our liner, due to the
fle~ibi.lity and overlap of the liner material~ will also fit other
trays that vary marginally in their diJnensionæ (up to -~ inch
variance in tra~ width and lerlgth car~ be accommodated by our li~er)~
As well as beinc~ paint helpirLg and size adaptive~ our liner will
also be form fit-ting~

:I'c~int -Ircly r; (:Ome -;n Va:riOIls si r~les~ '
Tha l~r~qwinp re~,:resents a view o.f arl embodiment o~ this
invention.
We have u~sed a sma:ll tray with el wi.d-th of 8 1/2 iches and a
leng-th of 12 3/o inches to demonstrate our di.sposable film plastic
paint tr~y line:r model~ The de~th of -the tray at the deer)er end i9
1 7/8 inches an~l grades upwc~rd to a depth of 5/B i.nch at the shall.ow
end. The llp or top surroundin6 edge o:t the tray is ~ inch ~/ide.
OU1 disposable film plasti.c ~aint -tray l.iner mode~, w'flich cover6
the erltire inside of the tray~ over]..aps 7/8 inch frorn the i.ns:icle
dimensions of the -top surrou.ndinp; edges of thc p~:int tr~ly ur;ed.
This 7/8 inch measurement :Eor ovcrlap lncludes ~ lnch L'Or the top
edt,e of the tray ancl leaves 5/8 inch over the to-p ed~;es to he
secured to th.e outside walls of the ~ain-t tray. Two circula:r
peel-off stlcker -tabs having a diame-ter of -~ inch will be bonded
to -the llner ho-ttom~ These two tabs are located on the :Liner bottom
and wil]. allgr. with the -two cor~rs in the bottom of -the tray's
deeper endO l~hen the~se securing tabs are stuck in their respective
corners, ins-tall~tion of the remain~der of the lirLer wi:ll be easy.
There are two more rectangular peel-off stickers for adhesion to
the underside lor~ger edges of the lirLer~ These stickers are
8 inches long and ~ inch wid.e and will be centered alorDg the
underside edge of the lirLer overlap on each of the tray's lor~ger
exterior sides~ Simi.lar s-tickers are used to secure the liner to
the two shorter exterior er~ds of the tray. These stickers are
6 inches loDg and ~ inch wide. They also are cerrtered and bonded
alorDg the underside edge of the li~er overlap at each of the tray's
shorter exterior er~ds~ The film plastic we used to make ou~ model
was garbage bag material. We simulated the bonded peel-off
stickers usirlg two-way stick tape on our model. ~ -