US1923250A - Ornamenting tool - Google Patents

Description

Aug. 22, R. BARQNE I ORNAMENTING TOOL Filed March l, 1933 Patentecl Aug. 22, 1933 1,923,250 v otNAii/IENTING 'rooL Ralph Barone, Newark, '-N. J;

Application March 1, 1933.

5 Claims.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in ornamenting devices, and particularly to devices which are manipulated on painted surfaces, While the paint is still wet, whereby to form ornamental designs thereon.

One object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device which can be easily manipulated on a painted surface, to form various designs, and which is capable of adjustment to produce variations in the designs.

Other objects and advantages Will be apparent from the following description When taken in connection with the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing:

Figure 1. is a top plan ViewV of. the tool.

. Figure 2 is a bottom plan View of the same.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the same. Figure 4 is a transverse sectional View on the line 4 4 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary sectional View, similar to Figure 4, showing two sleeves on a flnge and the washer associated 'with the star-shaped member.

Figure 6 Vis a perspective rubber sleeves.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawing, '10 represents a block which may be of any desired thickness and contour, the contour of the one illustrated being octagonal. Carried by each of the edge faces of the' block, and extending therei'rom at a right angle to the plane of said face, is a cylindrical stem or finger 12,

view of one of the a portion of the curved face of the finger being arranged in the plane of the lower face of the block, as clearly i seen in the Sectional views, Figures 4 and 5.

Removably engaged on each of the fingers 12 is a length of rubber tubing 13, the outer face of Which is shown as being longitudinally ribbed, as at 14, and theouter end of which tube is cut off 'obliquely, so that the pointed end thereof projects beyond the outer end of the finger, as shown at 15. While I have shown these rubber tubes, which are, in efiect'sleeves'as being externally ribbed, it is to be understood that their outer faces may be smooth,, or may have any other desired designs molded thereon. The sleeves 13, being formed from soft rubber, the projecting points 15 Will be flexible.

Should it be desired to produce a design of a different size, I slip onto each of the rubber sleeves 13, a rubber sleeve 16, of slightly greater diameter than the sleeve 13, said sleeve 16 being also obliquely cut, on its outer end, as at 17, to form the flexible point 16', which may be serial No. 659,161

arranged to lie inwardly of the point of the sleeve 13, or outwardly therebeyond, as desired.

If it is desired to change the design, that is the pattern thereof, I substitute for the pointed tubes 13, tubes which have their outer ends cut o at right angles, these latter tubes being engaged directly on the fingers, or if larger onesv are used, they are engaged on the smaller tubes Which engage on the fingers.

ecured to the lower face of the block 10, and centrally thereof, is a flat piece of soft rubber or other suitable material 18, the same being shown as having the outline of an eight-pointed star. This may be varied, in contour, to effect differences in the designs on the surface being treated.

When the larger sleeves 16 are used, it is necessary to elevate the star-shaped member 18, from the lower face of the block 10, so that its working face Will lie in the plane of the ;r-.A rrfrr'd oFFcs lower portions of the surfaces of said sleeves.

Secured to the block, and extending upwardly, in arching relation to the upper face of the block, is a handle 11, which is adapted to be grasped by the user, for manipulating the device.

It will, of course, be understood that the fingers may be of different diameters and leng-ths, and the block may be formed with more or less side faces than illustrated, which 1 would also affect the design.

' In the operation of the device, the operator grasps the handle 11, and places the device against the surface Which has been previously painted, and while the paint is still Wet, and

rotates the device on said surface, in either direction, or first in one direction, and then in the other direction, as desired, to produce various different design effects, in the wet paint. The designs may be further varied by partially rotating the device, and then moving the device in a straight line, or a curved line, over the painted surface, as Will readily be understood. Also, by so manipulating the device as to flex the pointed ends of the rubber sleeves, further variations of the design may be produced.

Thus the device may be manipulated in a multitude of ways, whereby to produce as many different designs.

The rubber sleeves may easily be removed,

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when they have become worn, and replaced by new ones, as found necessary.

What is claimed is:

1. An ornamenting device comprising a block having a face for operation on a surface to be ornamented, and radiating members on the block each having a face in the plane of said block face.

2. An ornamenting device comprising a block, a handle on the block, a resilient surface engaging member on one face ofthe block, fingers on the block, and resilient sleeves on said fingers,,

said sleeves having their outer ends cut off obliquely to provide flexible points.

3. An ornamenting device comprising a block

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