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The Pressure-Fed Fountain Paint Brush: Air Pushes the Paint, a Finger Stops It
Gottfried Meyer and Charles G. Braun, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Public domain (expired patent)
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The Pressure-Fed Fountain Paint Brush: Air Pushes the Paint, a Finger Stops It

Painting from a pot means stopping every few strokes to reload the brush. Gottfried Meyer and Charles G. Braun of Philadelphia received US 821,879, patented 29 May 1906, for a fountain paint brush: a reservoir pressurised through an air pipe with a check valve sends paint along a hose to a tube in a recess of the brush head and out through a flattened flexible web among the bristles; a spring holds a plunger open, and the forefinger pushes its knob to cut the paint off. This rung works out how paint thickness and pressure set the flow, then builds the tank from a bottle and a tyre valve, feeds a brush, and measures the flow.
Intermediário
About 3 hours

Instruções

1

Flow through the hose

A carregar o notebook Jupyter…
2

A one-way valve before it

The embedded blueprint lets flow pass one way only. Meyer and Braun put one on the air pipe so the pumped air stays in the paint tank.
3

Read US 821,879

"The knob 35 is disposed in convenient position for the fore or index finger of the hand which holds the brush, and the valve or plunger 33 can thus be easily maintained in its closed or inward position and the supply of paint cut off when not required." "The air-pressure causes the paint to flow to the brush no matter in what position the latter may be held and the flow is under complete control of the operator, as above noted."
4

Fit the cap

Drill a 1.5 L PET bottle's cap for a tyre valve and for vinyl tubing. Seat the valve, and push the tubing through until it touches the bottom. Seal both with epoxy.

Materiais para este passo:

Garrafa de PET (bebida gaseificada)Garrafa de PET (bebida gaseificada)1 peça
Válvula de pneuVálvula de pneu1 peça
Tubo de vinil transparenteTubo de vinil transparente1 peça
Epóxi de dois componentesEpóxi de dois componentes1 peça

Ferramentas necessárias:

Berbequim sem fiosBerbequim sem fios
Jogo de brocasJogo de brocas
X-ato (faca de precisão)X-ato (faca de precisão)
5

Feed the brush

Drill a 6 mm hole down through the stock of a 70 mm brush from the set, beside the handle. Push silicone tubing through it into the bristles and flatten its last 30 mm with a cable tie.

Materiais para este passo:

Conjunto de pincéisConjunto de pincéis1 peça
Tubo de siliconeTubo de silicone1 peça
Abraçadeiras de caboAbraçadeiras de cabo1 peça

Ferramentas necessárias:

Torno de bancadaTorno de bancada
Berbequim sem fiosBerbequim sem fios
Jogo de brocasJogo de brocas
6

Make the finger valve

Screw a hardwood block to the handle over the tubing. Fit an M5 screw through it with a spring under the head, so the screw rests off the tube and a press of the forefinger pinches it shut.

Materiais para este passo:

Cavilhas de madeira duraCavilhas de madeira dura1 peça
Parafusos de máquinaParafusos de máquina1 peça
Conjunto de molas de compressãoConjunto de molas de compressão1 peça

Ferramentas necessárias:

Serra de arco para metaisSerra de arco para metais
Berbequim sem fiosBerbequim sem fios
Jogo de brocasJogo de brocas
Conjunto de chaves de fendasConjunto de chaves de fendas
7

Join and pressurise

Join the bottle's tubing to the brush's with a 1.5 m length. Half fill the bottle with acrylic paint thinned with water, cap it, and pump to 0.2 bar on the gauge.

Materiais para este passo:

Conjunto de tintas acrílicasConjunto de tintas acrílicas1 peça
ÁguaÁgua1 peça

Ferramentas necessárias:

Bomba de bicicletaBomba de bicicleta
ManómetroManómetro
8

The patent drawing

US 821,879 drawing sheet, public domain (expired patent).
Passo 8 - Image 1
9

Measure the flow

Hold the brush over the measuring cylinder for 30 s and read the paint. Repeat at 0.4 bar, with the brush upside down, and with the button pressed.
Passo 9 - Image 1

Ferramentas necessárias:

Proveta graduadaProveta graduada
CronómetroCronómetro
ManómetroManómetro
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A brush that floods, starves or will not stop

Pressure-fed fountain paint brush troubleshooting.

Flow

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History and honest limits

**Gottfried Meyer** and **Charles G. Braun** of Philadelphia filed US 821,879 on 22 November 1905; it was patented 29 May 1906. Their reservoir has a valve casing with a detachable plug valve; a pipe reaches the bottom with lateral apertures; a sheet-metal band closes the recess in the brush head; all parts detach for cleaning when the colour is changed. **Honest limits.** A pinch on silicone tubing stands in for their plunger in a tube, and a PET bottle at low pressure for their reservoir. The notebook treats paint as a simple liquid. Your flows are the result.

Materiais

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Ferramentas necessárias

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