Painting and Misting Shield

1. Field of the Invention

This invention relates generally to shields and, more particularly, to shields for water or paint spraying type applications.

2. Description of the Prior Art

In the past, when a plant required misting, or an object required spraypainting, the object in question would have to be either moved, so that nothing near it would be hit by the unused portion of the spraying liquid, or it would be necessary to use some sort of dropcloth to prevent the areas in the vicinity of the object being sprayed from being undesirably hit with the excess spraying liquid. Yet, either solution (moving the object or covering the other areas) resulted in a waste of the spraying liquid being used, plus possibly the need to move the object to be sprayed.

A need existed to provide a shield that could both catch the unused sprayed liquid for possible reuse and also stop the sprayed unused liquid from damaging other objects or surfaces in the immediate vicinity of the object being sprayed, without necessitating removal of any of the objects near it, or the object to be sprayed.

FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a shield comprising an upright, preferably concave curved member which has hand grips and a sprout and a collection trough at the bottom of said shield.

FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of the shield of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a top view of a shield similar to FIG. 1 showing another trough embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a front elevational view similar to FIG. 1 with parts broken away to show the embodiment of FIG. 3.

In accordance with one embodiment of this invention, it is an object of this invention to provide an improved type of painting or misting shield.

It is another object of this invention to provide an improved type of painting or water mist shield that is useful for catching sprayed and unused liquids when water misting or paint spraying thereby preventing these liquids from coming in contact with other surfaces or objects and for trapping and gathering this unused liquid spray for possible future use.

It is another object of this invention to provide an improved type of painting or misting shield that permits both the catching and trapping of sprayed excess liquids.

It is still another object of this invention to provide a painting or misting shield having means for facilitating pouring of the unused sprayed liquid captured by the shield into another container or object.

Referring to FIG. 1, a shield useful for catching excess sprayed liquid and trapping it when water misting (such as for water spraying house plants) or spraypainting, is generally designated by reference number 10. The shield 10, in this embodiment, is shown as preferably containing two handles or grips 12, a spout 14, a trough 16 and a main shield portion comprising a preferably concave curved upright member 18. The shield 10 is preferably made of light weight plastic for water misting or spraying applications. However, for paint spraying applications, the shield 10 is preferably made of a material that paint cannot wet or coat such as a hard-baked enamel. The handles or grips 12 serve to facilitate holding and handling of the shield 10. The spout 14 at the upper portion of the concave curved upright member 18 serves to facilitate pouring into another container (not shown) of the captured, sprayed and unused liquid once it has been collected in trough 16.

Referring to FIG. 2, a side view of the shield 10 of FIG. 1 is shown. FIG. 2 shows the concave arc of the upright member 18 of the shield 10 and the concavity of the trough 16 to provide for optimum efficiency in catching and storing the captured, sprayed and unused liquid. The concave shape of the member 18 also allows the captured liquid to be poured out through the spout 14 into another container (not shown).

Referring to FIG. 3, a top view of another embodiment of the shield 10 of FIG. 2 is shown. FIG. 3 shows again the curvature of the shield and trough, preferably approximately 140.degree., to provide for optimum trapping, collection and pouring and in addition shows a stopper or cork 20 centrally located at the bottom of the trough 16 which can be removed for drainage as an alternative means of removing the trapped liquid rather than using the spout 14 which requires tipping the shield 10. In this embodiment, it is important to have the center portion of the trough 16 at the lowest point which can be achieved by slanting the bottom wall portions of the trough 16 as shown in FIG. 4.

Thus, FIG. 4 shows the curvature of the bottom walls of the trough 16 to allow the captured liquid to flow out the center portion of the trough 16 for drainage through the opening covered by the stopper or cork 20 which is removed for this type of drainage operation.

While the invention has been particularly described and shown in reference to the preferred embodiments thereof it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail and omissions may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.