US 12,404,708 B2
Door hinge masking tape and method of use
David Rivera, Dacula, GA (US)
Filed by David Rivera, Dacula, GA (US)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/510,071.
Application 18/510,071 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/693,332, filed on Mar. 12, 2022, granted, now 11,964,292.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/162,463, filed on Mar. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2025/0154811 A1, May 15, 2025
Int. Cl. E05D 11/00 (2006.01); B05B 12/24 (2018.01)
CPC E05D 11/0054 (2013.01) [B05B 12/24 (2018.02)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of making and using a painter's thin, flat masking tape member configured to cover and protect a large door hinge, said large door hinge comprising identical left and right leaves and a curled barrel or knuckle, the right and left leaves attached to a door and a door jamb, respectively, and swingingly connected via the knuckle or curled barrel, against paint and paint sprays, and without requiring the door and door hinge to be immobilized, wherein the thin, flat masking tape member has a face surface and a back surface separated into equal-width, parallel, left edge and right edge sections, and a middle section in parallel with the left and right edge sections, the method comprising the steps of:
drawing and tearing off a length of said thin, flat masking tape member from a roll sufficient in length and configuring said masking tape member to cover a vertical length of the right and left leaves and to completely cover an exposed section of the curled barrel or knuckle of the door hinge, said middle section extending continuously and longitudinally along the length of said thin flat masking tape member and being free of adhesive;
aligning one of the left and right edge sections of said thin flat masking tape member with a section of the left leave section and then smoothing said thin flat masking tape member to the curled barrel or knuckle of the door hinge;
then, aligning the other right and left edge sections of the masking tape with at least a section of the left outer edge of the right leave section, including smoothing the other right and left edge section toward the center;
whereby said curled barrel or knuckle is free of any adhesive;
wherein if the door is open less than 180 degrees, the middle section of the tape covering the curled barrel or knuckle will be loose and set a small distance away from a surface of the curled barrel or knuckle, but still offering paint splatter protection without impeding movement of said door;
wherein said large door hinge has a barrel arc of at least about 1.75 inches and said length of masking tape has a width of at least 2.5 inches; and
wherein only a very small region of adhesive of the thin flat masking tape member attaches to the right and left leaves of the barrel since a center region of the thin flat masking tape member has no adhesive and covers the exposed portion of the arc of the barrel with a non-adhesive arcuate section of said, thin flat masking tape member.