CA1192852A - Disposable film plastic paint tray liners - Google Patents

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.

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. ~ -

Claims (2)

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.