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The Pressure-Fed Fountain Paint Brush: Air Pushes the Paint, a Finger Stops It
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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.
Àárín
About 3 hours

Ìlànà

1

Flow through the hose

Ń ṣí ìwé 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.

Àwọn ohun èlò fún ìgbésẹ̀ yìí:

Ìgò PET (ohun mímu olóhùn)Ìgò PET (ohun mímu olóhùn)1 ẹyọ
Fáfù táyàFáfù táyà1 ẹyọ
Ọ̀pá vinyl tí ó mọ́Ọ̀pá vinyl tí ó mọ́1 ẹyọ
Ẹpọ́ksì Ẹ̀yà MéjìẸpọ́ksì Ẹ̀yà Méjì1 ẹyọ

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Ẹ̀rọ Ìlùkòkò AláìlókùnẸ̀rọ Ìlùkòkò Aláìlókùn
Àkójọ Orí ÌlùkòkòÀkójọ Orí Ìlùkòkò
Ọ̀bẹ Iṣẹ́ Ọwọ́Ọ̀bẹ Iṣẹ́ Ọwọ́
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.

Àwọn ohun èlò fún ìgbésẹ̀ yìí:

Ìdìpọ̀ búrọ́ọ̀ṣìÌdìpọ̀ búrọ́ọ̀ṣì1 ẹyọ
Ọ̀pọ̀n Sílíkọ́nìỌ̀pọ̀n Sílíkọ́nì1 ẹyọ
Ìdì okùnÌdì okùn1 ẹyọ

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Ìdìmú TábìlìÌdìmú Tábìlì
Ẹ̀rọ Ìlùkòkò AláìlókùnẸ̀rọ Ìlùkòkò Aláìlókùn
Àkójọ Orí ÌlùkòkòÀkójọ Orí Ìlùkòkò
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.

Àwọn ohun èlò fún ìgbésẹ̀ yìí:

Àwọn dowel igi líleÀwọn dowel igi líle1 ẹyọ
Skurú ẹ̀rọSkurú ẹ̀rọ1 ẹyọ
Àkójọ Ìsúnkì Ìtẹ̀Àkójọ Ìsúnkì Ìtẹ̀1 ẹyọ

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Ayùn IrinAyùn Irin
Ẹ̀rọ Ìlùkòkò AláìlókùnẸ̀rọ Ìlùkòkò Aláìlókùn
Àkójọ Orí ÌlùkòkòÀkójọ Orí Ìlùkòkò
Ìṣù àwọn ohun ìyí skurúÌṣù àwọn ohun ìyí skurú
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.

Àwọn ohun èlò fún ìgbésẹ̀ yìí:

Ìṣètò àwọ̀ acrylicÌṣètò àwọ̀ acrylic1 ẹyọ
OmiOmi1 ẹyọ

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Ẹ̀rọ ìfẹ́fẹ́ bàísíkùẸ̀rọ ìfẹ́fẹ́ bàísíkù
Ẹ̀rọ Ìwọ̀n Ìtẹ̀Ẹ̀rọ Ìwọ̀n Ìtẹ̀
8

The patent drawing

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

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Òpó ìwọ̀nÒpó ìwọ̀n
Aago ÌdúróAago Ìdúró
Ẹ̀rọ Ìwọ̀n Ìtẹ̀Ẹ̀rọ Ìwọ̀n Ìtẹ̀
10

A brush that floods, starves or will not stop

Pressure-fed fountain paint brush troubleshooting.

Flow

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11

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.

Àwọn ohun-èlò

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Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tó nílò

10

CC0 Àgbègbè Gbogbogbò

Blueprint yìí ti jáde lábẹ́ CC0. O lè ṣe àdàkọ, yí padà, pín, àti lò láìsí ìyọ̀ǹda.

Ṣàtìlẹ́yìn Olùṣẹ́dá nípa rírà àwọn ọjà nipasẹ̀ Blueprint wọn Ẹ̀san Olùṣẹ́dá tí àwọn Olùtajà gbé kalẹ̀, tàbí ṣẹ̀dá àtúnṣe tuntun ti Blueprint yìí kí o sì fi sínú Blueprint rẹ gẹ́gẹ́ bí ìsopọ̀ láti pín owó-wíwọlé.

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