Appeal No. 2004-1746
Application No. 09/902,403
APPENDIX
1. In painting a surface using a paint-applying roller, a
method of evenly coating said roller with paint preparatory to
painting use thereof comprising the steps of:
A. using a tray in a rectangular configuration having
disposed therein an inclined paint-receiving surface and at a
distal end of said surface walls bounding a paint supply storage
well;
B. filling said well with a supply of paint of a viscous
nature;
C. dipping a roller having an absorbent external surface
into said supply of paint;
D. using a screen with porosity and of metal construction
material having edges bounding said porosity thereof delimiting
openings therethrough;
E. placing said screen on top of and in contact with said
inclined paint-receiving surface so as to have areas of said
paint-receiving surface align with cooperating screen openings
and serve as closures thereof to provide plural paint-retained
sites in said surface;
F. urging said roller with said viscous paint applied to
said absorbent external surface thereof in preliminary
alternating movement along said screen to cause retained deposits
of said viscous paint at said sites in said screen to provide
temporary adhesive attachment at an interface of said roller with
said retained deposits of said viscous paint;
G. urging said roller in subsequent alternating movement
relative to said screen in said operative position thereof upon
said inclined paint-receiving surface effective to release said
roller from said temporary attachment thereof to said retained
deposits of said viscous paint and permitting rotation of said
roller; and
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