Paint mask

• US 5,441,769 A
• Filed: 02/17/1994
• Issued: 08/15/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lorna O. Ross, Ross, Ryan
• Original Assignee: Lorna O. Ross, Ross, Ryan
• Inventors: Ross, Ryan, Ross, legal representative, by Lorna O.
• Primary Examiner(s): LUSIGNAN, MICHAEL R
• Application Number:
  US08/198,526
• Time in Patent Office: 544 Days
• Field of Search: 118/504, 118/505, 427/282, 427/284, 428/43
• US Class Current: 427/282
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 12/24 made at least partly of flexible material, e.g. sheets of paper or fabric
• CPC Class Codes: B05D 1/322 Removable films used as masks
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/15 Sheet, web, or layer weakened to permit separation through thickness

Abstract

A paint mask for shielding windows while painting mullions of a window, made of a flexible sheet material having an attractiveness for holding to glass. The paint mask is sized for covering a pane of glass held by mullions. The sheet is engaged flatly to the glass pane to receive paint while the mullion is painted. A method of shielding a glass pane while painting mullions is disclosed.

Claims

1. A method of sealing a glass window pane from application of paint while painting mullions of a window, comprising:

placing on a glass pane framed by mullions of a window a planar sheet of a flexible material having an attractiveness for holding to glass; and

abutting edges of the sheet against a trim material holding the glass pane to the mullion,

whereby the sheet, being engaged flatly to the glass pane, receives overlap paint while the mullion is painted, preventing paint from being applied to the glass.

2. The method of sealing as recited in claim 1, further comprising a step of squeezing air bubbles from between the sheet and the glass pane for sealingly engaging the sheet to the glass pane.

3. The method of sealing as recited in claim 1 further comprising a step of sizing the sheet to fit the glass pane by severing a perimeter area of the sheet along a score spaced inwardly from a perimeter edge of the sheet.

4. The method of sealing as recited in claim 1, further comprising a step of removing the sheet from the glass pane after painting the mullion by pulling on a tab attached to an outer surface of the sheet.

5. The method of sealing as recited in claim 4, further comprising repeating the steps of placing, abutting, and removing the sheet on windows to be painted.

6. A method of sealing a glass window pane from application of paint while painting mullions of a window, comprising:

placing on a glass pane framed by mullions of a window a planar sheet of a flexible material having an attractiveness for holding to glass the planar sheet and having a thickness of about 0.013 inches; and

abutting edges of the sheet against a trim material holding the glass pane to the mullion,

whereby the sheet, being engaged flatly to the glass pane, receives overlap paint while the mullion is painted, preventing paint from being applied to the glass.

7. The method as recited in claim 6, further comprising a step of squeezing air bubbles from between the sheet and the glass pane for sealingly engaging the sheet to the glass pane.

8. The method as recited in claim 6, further comprising a step of sizing the sheet to fit the glass pane by severing a perimeter area of the sheet along a score.

9. The method of sealing as recited in claim 6, further comprising a step of removing the sheet from the glass pane after painting the mullion by pulling on a tab attached to an outer surface of the sheet.

10. The method of sealing as recited in claim 9, further comprising repeating the steps of placing, abutting, and removing the sheet on windows to be painted.

11. A masking method of masking a glass window pane from inadvertent application of paint while painting mullions of a window, comprising:

affixing a flexible sheet to a surface of a glass window pane, the flexible sheet including nonadhesive for attractively holding the sheet to the glass window pane;

abutting perimeter edges of the flexible sheet against respective mullions of a window; and

pressingly contacting a perimeter portion of the flexible sheet to secure same against the glass window pane adjacent the mullion for sealingly closing a gap between the glass window pane and the flexible sheet,

whereby painting the mullion applies overlap paint to an exposed surface of the flexible sheet.

12. The masking method as recited in claim 11, further comprising sizing the flexible sheet for closely fitting on the glass window pane in abutment with the mullions.

13. The masking method as recited in claim 12, wherein sizing comprises severing a perimeter area of the flexible sheet.

14. The masking method as recited in claim 13, wherein severing comprises separating a perimeter area along a score spaced inwardly from a perimeter edge of the flexible sheet.

15. The method of sealing as recited in claim 11, further comprising a step of removing the sheet from the glass window pane after painting the mullion by pulling on a tab attached to an outer surface of the sheet.

16. The method of sealing as recited in claim 15, further comprising repeating the steps of placing, abutting, and removing the sheet on windows to be painted.