Touch up paint applicator

• US 7,338,225 B1
• Filed: 10/09/2006
• Issued: 03/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jerri L. Taylor
• Original Assignee: Jerri L. Taylor
• Inventors: Taylor, Jerri L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Walczak; David J.
• Application Number:
  US11/545,606
• Time in Patent Office: 512 Days
• Field of Search: 401/176, 401/179, 401/182, 401/205, 401/206, 401/207, 401/13
• US Class Current: 401/13
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 17/002 with feed system for supplying material from an external source; Supply controls therefor B05C17/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 17/01 with manually mechanically or electrically actuated piston or the like B05C17/00533 takes precedence

Abstract

A refillable pen has a sponge tip and dispenses paint through the tip onto a substrate to repair a blemished paint surface when the sponge tip is pressed against the substrate.

Claims

1. A touch up paint applicator comprising:

A) a cylindrical container having an interior volume, a first end which is an aft end when the container is in use and a second end which is a forward end when the container is in use;

B) a dispensing port defined in the forward end, the dispensing port being in fluid communication with the interior volume of the container;

C) a dispensing nozzle on the dispensing port, the dispensing nozzle being in fluid communication with the interior volume of the container;

D) a sponge tip on the dispensing nozzle, the sponge tip including

(1) a first wall that is a bottom wall when the sponge tip is in the use condition,

(2) a second wall which is a sidewall, and

(3) a third wall which is a top wall when the sponge tip is in the use condition,

(4) the top wall of the sponge tip being oriented at an oblique angle to the sidewall of the sponge tip,

(5) an apex being defined at the intersection of the top wall and the sidewall;

E) a rubber seal located adjacent to an entrance port on the aft end of the container;

F) a plunger handle mounting bracket unit on the container;

G) a plunger having

(1) a handle having a distal end and proximal end, the handle of the plunger being movable between a stored condition in which the handle of the plunger is mounted in the mounting bracket unit and a use condition in which the handle of the plunger extends through the entrance port on the aft end of the container, and

(2) a plunger head on the distal end of the handle of the plunger; and

H) touch up paint stored in the container, the touch up paint being forced out of the dispensing nozzle and through the sponge tip when the sponge tip is pressed against a workpiece being touched up, and drawn into the interior volume when the plunger handle is moved away from the forward end.

2. The touch up paint applicator defined in claim 1 wherein the sponge tip is in the shape of an ungula.

3. A touch up paint applicator comprising:

A) a container having an interior volume, a first end which is an aft end when the container is in use, a second end which is a forward end when the container is in use, and a rubber seal located adjacent to the aft end of the container;

B) a dispensing nozzle on the forward end of the container, the dispensing nozzle being in fluid communication with the interior volume of the container;

C) a sponge tip on the dispensing nozzle, the sponge tip being in the shape of an oblique truncated solid and having an apex;

D) a plunger handle mounting bracket on the container;

E) a plunger having

(1) a handle which is movable between a stored condition in which the handle of the plunger is mounted in the mounting bracket and a use condition in which the handle of the plunger extends into the container, and

(2) a plunger head on the distal end of the handle of the plunger; and

F) touch up paint stored in the container, the touch up paint being forced out of the dispensing nozzle and through the sponge tip when the sponge tip is pressed against a workpiece being touched up, and drawn into the interior volume when the plunger handle is moved away from the forward end.