Education and demonstration – Visual art or craft – artistic adornment – or color training... – Color application
Reexamination Certificate
1999-12-14
2001-04-10
Rimell, Sam (Department: 3712)
Education and demonstration
Visual art or craft, artistic adornment, or color training...
Color application
C434S081000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06213778
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a painting kit and the associated method for its use. More particularly, this invention relates to a pre-packaged painting kit for use in association with an infant's posterior to create highly stylistic designs on a surface suitable for display.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The addition of a newborn infant to a family inspires feelings of nostalgia and the related desire to create a lasting remembrance of the child's infancy. There are many ways to create this lasting remembrance, including bronzing a baby shoe, photography, videography, and making hand and feet prints. These types of products satisfy the need of a remembrance, but are all either utilitarian or unfinished in nature, and are very recognizable as mementos.
The existing types of remembrances are easily recognizable as just that-a whole or part of a baby or infant used to create a lasting impression. There is no known kit available, or method associated therewith, to assist in creating a remembrance that results in a fine art end product which is not easily recognized as merely a remembrance
It is with these goals in mind that the instant invention was created.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a unique painting process and a painting kit used to practice the process. The process includes the preparation of a protective covering on a work surface, placing a background media to be painted on the protective covering, placing a reservoir on the protective covering, filling the reservoir with paint, dipping the posterior of the infant in the paint, and stamping the painted posterior on the background media to create a finished product.
The kit of the present invention includes a flat, flexible backing piece (such as cardboard), a protective cover folded into a compact size and positioned on the backing piece, a plurality of paint bottles positioned on the backing piece, a plurality of reservoirs positioned on the backing piece, a plurality of painting tools positioned on the backing piece, and a transparent plastic sheet covering the protective cover and plurality of paint bottles, reservoirs and painting tools, and attached around its peripheral edge to the backing piece. In more detail, a background media portion can also be included on the backing piece and under the plastic covering.
Other aspects, features and details of the present invention can be more completely understood by reference to the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment, taken in conjunction with the drawings, and from appended claims.
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My Hands™—Complete Handprint Poem Kit product information, source unknown, at least as early as Dec. 14, 1999.
My Hands™—Complete Handprint Poem Kit,One Step Ahead, Perferred Issue 1999, p. 39
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Rimell Sam
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