US1850700A - Method of applying paint and the like - Google Patents

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March 22, 1932.: E, TAYLOR 1,850,700

METHOD OF APPLYING PAINT AND THE LIKE Filed Oct. 29, 1929 INVENTOR. I I ERNEJT (710mm! A TTORNEYS.

Patented Mar. 22, 1932 UNITED "STATES ERNEST- (hTAYLOR, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA;

METHOD OF APPLYING AND THE LIKE Application filed October 29, 1929. Serial No. 403,303.

The present invention relates to a method of applying paint and the like to a surface and its principal object is to provide a simplified procedure for applying liquid paint to the inside of a vessel. At the present time it is customary to paint the inside of large tanks by means of a hand brush or a spray. which is a slow, laborious process, gives imperfect results in many instances, and is accompanied by detriinental effects on the person applying the paint through the inhaling of injurious gases.

In the present invention it is proposed to apply the paint by a floating process which may be carried out with speed and without any eflort on the part of the operator.

is further proposed in the present invention to apply the same principle to the painting of the outside of a vessel or the'like by dipping the same into a floating body of paint or by causing a floating body of paint to rise in contact with the vessel to be painted.-

Further objects and advantages of my invention will appear as the specification proceeds. The preferred form in which my invention may be carried out is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a vertical section through a vessel to be painted on the inside, while Figure 2 shows a vertical section through a tank used for the purpose of exteriorly applying paint to a second vessel.

While I have described only the preferred forms of my invention, I wish to have it understood that various changes or modifications may be made within the scope of the claim hereto attached without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Figure 1 illustrates the manner in which my invention is applied to the coating of the inside of a vessel 1. In carrying out my process', a quantity of paintsuflicientto coat the entire vessel is placed on the bottom of the 45 same, and thereupon water is allowed to encontact with the drysurface and naturally of course,

ter the vessel through the pipe 2 arranged in the bottom, so that the paint is gradually raised and floated to the top of the vessel, the drawings illustrating an intermediate stage, and showing a layer of paint 3 floating on a body of water 4. It will be noted that the surface of the tank or vessel is dry before the water reaches the same so that the body of paint overlying the water comes in adheres thereto. I find this method of applying paint very satisfactory, and I particularly have noticed that when applied n this manner, the paint penetrates into every crevice and makes a perfect seal around rivets, at seams, and in all places where it is difficult or almost impossible to apply paint by means of a hand brush or a spray.

. After the paint has reached the top of the vessel the water may be. drained ofi through a pipe 5 so that whatever paint remains on the top of the water descends again as a body. After all the water has been withdrawn and the remaining paint starts to flow through the pipe 5 it may be caught in a bucket or any other suitable container indicated at 6. 11 Figure 2 is'illustrated the method of applying paint to the outside of a vessel indic'ated at 7. In this method I provide a tank- 8 which must be larger than the vessel 7 to be painted, and I place the latter vessel inside of the tank on suitable supports indicated at 9. A quantity of paint sufficient to coat the vessel 7 is then placed on the bottom of the vessel 8 and water is introduced through the pipe 10 which causes the paint to float upward and to cover the vessel 7 After the latter is thoroughl covered the'water is withdrawn through t e pipe 11 and whatever point remains in the tank 8 may be caught in the container 12. It should be understood, that instead of causing a floating side of and in might dip the body of paint to rise alon contact with the vessel 7 latter into the floating body of paint with substantially similar results,

I claim: The method of applying liquid paint or the 5 like to the interior of a vessel which consists in placing a quantity of paint in the bottoin of the vasel and in introducing water below the paint for floating the paint upward.

Signed at Sacramento in the county of Sacramento and State of California this 23d day of October, A. D. 1929.

ERNEST C. TAYLOR.

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