Coating touch up kit

• US 6,598,762 B2
• Filed: 01/22/2002
• Issued: 07/29/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alliance Coatings Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Affinity Management Solutions Incorporated
• Inventors: McKune, Brian
• Primary Examiner(s): Bomberg, Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US10/051,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20020100769A1
• Time in Patent Office: 553 Days
• Field of Search: 222/81, 222/82, 222/83, 222/83.5, 222/129, 222/402.1, 206/219, 215/DIG.8
• US Class Current: 222/82
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/2421 Gas containers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/666 product and propellant being totally mixed on, or prior to, first use, e.g. by braking an ampoule containing one of those components B65D83/687 takes precedence; portable spraying apparatus comprising a container pressurized by a gas cartridge B05B9/0833
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/687 the products being totally mixed on, or prior to, first use, e.g. by breaking an ampoule containing one of the products

Abstract

In a touch up kit for painting small surface areas, an outer container contains a paint or primer coating material and an inner container contains a catalyst for the paint or primer material. The inner container comprises a bottom seal member closing the bottom of the inner container and an upper seal member closing the top of the inner container. The inner container is nested in the mouth of the outer container. The upper seal member is pierceable by a blunt instrument such as the inlet tube of an aerosol spray canister and the bottom seal member is designed to be detached from the bottom of the inner container in response to downward pressure on the bottom seal member by the inlet tube of the aerosol canister. In use, the inlet tube of the aerosol canister is used to puncture the upper seal member of the inner container and to exert downward pressure on the bottom seal member to completely detach it from the inner container allowing the catalyst in the inner container to drop into the paint or primer coating material within the outer container. The assembly of the inner and outer containers is vigorously shaken to thoroughly mix the catalyst with the paint or primer coating material. The canister is then used to spray the paint or primer mixture on to the surface to be coated. Following the coating process the remaining material in the two containers is allowed to dry whereupon it can be discarded in conventional trash.

Claims

1. A method of preparing and applying a coating mixture to a surface to be coated comprising providing an outer container containing a first coating mixture component and an inner container containing a second coating mixture component, said inner container being positioned in said outer container and mounted at a mouth of said outer container, said inner container comprising annular sidewalls and a bottom sealing member closing the bottom of said inner container;

exerting downward pressure on said sealing member with an instrument separate from said sealing member to completely dislodge said sealing member from said inner container to allow said sealing member to fall completely away from said inner container and allow said second coating mixture component to drop into said first coating mixture component, mixing said first and second coating components in said outer container to produce said coating mixture;

applying said coating mixture to the surface to be coated, wherein said coating mixture is applied to said surface by means of an aerosol spray canister, and wherein said aerosol spray canister is mounted on said outer container by screwing a mounting member onto a neck of said outer container defining said mouth of said outer container.

2. A touch up kit for preparing a coating mixture to be applied to a surface in a touch up application, comprising an outer container having a mouth and containing a component of a coating mixture, an inner container positioned in said outer container mounted at said mouth of said outer container and containing a second component of said coating mixture, said inner container comprising sidewalls and a sealing member closing the bottom of said inner container, said sealing member being detachable from the sidewalls of said inner container to open the bottom of said inner container and allow the second component of said coating mixture to mix with said first component of said coating mixture wherein said mouth of said outer container is defined by a neck on the upper end of said outer container, said neck being provided with screw threads, and a cap having screw threads adapted to mate with the screw threads on the neck of said container and screwed on the screw threads on said neck to enclose said coating components in an air tight container, and wherein said inner container has an outwardly extending flange on the upper end thereof fitting with the upper end wall of said neck, said cap sandwiching said flange between said cap and said upper end walls and pressing said flange against said upper end wall to create an air tight seal.

3. A touch up kit for preparing a coating mixture to be applied to a surface in a touch up application, comprising an outer container having a mouth and containing a component of a coating mixture, an inner container positioned in said outer container mounted at said mouth of said outer container and containing a second component of said coating mixture, said inner container comprising a sidewall, an upper sealing member closing the top of said inner container, and a lower sealing member closing the bottom of said inner container, said upper sealing member comprising a readily puncturable sheet of material, said sidewall having an axially facing endwall, said lower sealing member being detachably sealed to said endwall, a dull instrument adapted to first pierce the sheet of said upper sealing member and then to engage said lower sealing member from within said inner container and exert downward pressure on said lower sealing member to open the bottom of said inner container and allow the second component of said coating mixture to mix with said first component of said coating mixture, wherein said lower sealing member is constructed so that said lower sealing membeer is connected only to said endwall and completely detaches from said sidewalls to fall completely away from said sidewalls in response to downward pressure applied to said sealing member from within said inner container by said dull instrument.

4. A touch up kit as recited in claim 3 wherein said first and second components of said coating mixture are liquids.

5. A touch up kit as recited in claim 3 wherein one of said coating mixture components comprises a catalyst.

6. A touch up kit as recited in claim 5 wherein said catalyst comprises said second coating mixture component contained in said inner container.

7. A touch up kit as recited in claim 3 wherein said mouth of said outer container is defined by a neck on the upper end of said outer container, said neck being provided with screw threads, and a cap having screw threads adapted to mate with the screw threads on the neck of said container and screwed on the screw threads on said neck to enclose said coating components in an air tight container.

8. A method of preparing and applying a coating mixture to a surface to be coated comprising providing an outer container containing a first coating mixture component and an inner container containing a second coating mixture component, said inner container being positioned in said outer container and mounted at a mouth of said outer container, said inner container comprising annular sidewalls, an upper sealing member in the form of a puncturable sheet closing the top of said inner container, and a bottom sealing member in the form of a sheet closing the bottom of said inner container;

puncturing said sheet with an end of an instrument, and then passing said end of said instrument through the puncture in said upper seal member to engage the sheet of said lower sealing member with said instrument to exert downward pressure on said lower sealing member with said instrument to completely dislodge said lower sealing member from said inner container to allow said sealing member to fall completely away from said inner container and allow said second coating mixture component to drop into said first coating mixture component, mixing said first and second coating components in said outer container to produce said coating mixture;

applying said coating mixture to the surface to be coated.

9. A method as recited in claim wherein said coating mixture is applied to said surface by means of an aerosol spray canister.

10. A method as recited in claim 9 wherein said first and second coating mixture components are mixed by shaking the assembly of said inner and outer containers after said second coating mixture component drops into said first coating mixture component.