Paint color testing method

• US 5,217,744 A
• Filed: 09/11/1992
• Issued: 06/08/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Frederick N. Little Jr
• Original Assignee: Frederick N. Little Jr
• Inventors: Little, Frederick N. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): BELL, JANYCE A
• Application Number:
  US07/943,621
• Time in Patent Office: 270 Days
• Field of Search: 427/8, 427/142, 356/402, 356/421-425
• US Class Current: 427/8
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 21/00 Accessories or implements for use in connection with applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces, not provided for in groups B05C1/00 - B05C19/00 accessories or implements for use in connection with painting or artistic drawing and fully provided for in B44D3/02 - B44D3/38, see subgroups of B44D3/00
• CPC Class Codes: B44D 3/003 Methods or devices for colour determination, selection or synthesis, e.g. use of colour tables
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0023 Colour matching, recognition, analysis, mixture or the like

Abstract

A kit and method for testing the color of paints to be applied to painted surfaces having primers or sealers thereon to determine if a paint color matches that of a painted surface. Preferably, the kit comprises a plurality of testing members removably mounted therein or thereon. The testing members have different primers or sealers thereon corresponding to those on different known painted surfaces. When a paint is to be applied to an area of a specific painted surface, the paint is first applied to one of the testing members having thereon the same primer or sealer as that on the painted surface. The painted testing member then is moved to a position adjacent the painted surface to compare the color of the paint on the testing member to that of the painted surface.

Claims

1. A method of testing the color of a paint to be applied to a painted surface having a primer or sealer thereon to determine if the paint color matches that of the painted surface, comprising the steps of:

providing a portable testing member;

applying to said testing member a primer or sealer that is the same as that of the painted surface;

applying the paint to a portion of said testing member having the primer or sealer thereon; and

moving said testing member to a position adjacent to the painted surface to compare the color of the paint on said testing member to that of the painted surface.