A paint roller is a paint application tool used for painting large flat surfaces rapidly and efficiently.
The paint roller typically consists of two parts: a "roller frame," and a "roller cover." The roller cover absorbs the paint and transfers it to the painted surface, the roller frame attaches to the roller cover. A painter holds the roller by the handle section. The roller frame is reusable. It is possible to clean and reuse a roller cover, but it is also typically disposed of after use.
The roller cover is a cylindrical core with a pile fabric covering secured to the cylindrical core. Foam rubber rollers are also produced. There are both foam and fabric rollers that are individually available (without a handle), made to replace worn out rollers, once an old roller is removed the new roller can be fitted onto the handle section for use. An innovation of the cylindrical core has allowed it to contain paint inside, with the cover absorbing paint from the inside and filtering it through (naturally by wicking) to be applied externally, when the roller is rolled.
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In 1938, David Welt went to a printer in New York City to buy business cards for his father's painting services. As he stood in the store, he saw the printer rolling ink on to the metal printing press type. The 18 year old thought to himself "if a printer can roll ink, why can't my father roll paint instead of using a brush." That idea sparked the invention of the first paint roller.
The teenager went home and told his father. In the basement of their apartment building, they fashioned the first paint roller with a bent piece of steel, wooden dowel as the roller and carpet as the roller fabric. When they tested it with paint, they found that it didn't do a very good job of applying the paint but it did a great job of "stippling" existing wet paint (covering brush strokes). This is how the American Roller Stippler Company.
As the paint roller business grew, the name evolved into ARSCO Paint Rollers and ARSCO International. As sales grew, a small factory in a New York suburb expanded into a 2 block long factory in Miami, Florida. David Welt was a very gifted entrepreneur, engineer, designer and photographer who used all his skills to create and manufacture paint rollers, accessories such as paint trays and extension poles. ARSCO products were sold worldwide. Some of ARSCO's products were private labeled for Sherwin-Williams and Glidden companies.
David Welt's love of photography led him into the design and manufacturing of camera tripods. End result was the sale of ARSCO to his son, Glenn Welt who ran the paint roller business until 2006. Competition from cheap imports and Glenn's other interests ended the run of the Welt paint roller businesses.
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