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A pounce applicator which embodies a hand-sized storage container, a portion of which also serves as the gripping surface, and a replaceable pad unit which includes a core containing a reservoir for pounce and a system of pounce carrying channels, a support screen, a pounce flow limiter, a foam pad

A pounce applicator which embodies a hand-sized storage container, a portion of which also serves as the gripping surface, and a replaceable pad unit which includes a core containing a reservoir for pounce and a system of pounce carrying channels, a support screen, a pounce flow limiter, a foam pad and a covering cloth. Included is external access to permit refilling of the reservoir. Enhanced distribution of pounce, particularly for vertical and overhead surfaces, is obtained through the use of an externally pressed bellows-shaped plug which provides increased air pressure internal to the pad unit.

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1. A device for the application of pounce to a perforated pattern so as to transfer a design to an underlying surface, comprising: (a) a replaceable pad unit which is comprised of: (2) a lightweight, nonpermeable core wherein are located a cavity approximate to the center of said core and exten

1. A device for the application of pounce to a perforated pattern so as to transfer a design to an underlying surface, comprising: (a) a replaceable pad unit which is comprised of: (2) a lightweight, nonpermeable core wherein are located a cavity approximate to the center of said core and extending into the core from a face thereof, and having an open surface on said face, said cavity forming a pounce storage reservoir, and multiple open surface pounce distribution channels which are connected to and extend from the open surface of said pounce storage reservoir, said distribution channels providing both additional pounce storage volume and an unobstructed pathway for the distribution of pounce toward more distant portions of the face of said core; said core also including an opening formed in said core from the bottom center of the said internal storage reservoir and continuing through the said core to the opposing surface thereof, said opening forming a portion of a pounce loading access channel in combination with an adjacently located and corresponding opening formed in the containing vessel, so that by introducing pounce through said opening formed in the containing vessel and hence through the said opening formed in the core, the pounce will enter said internal storage reservoir; (2) open mesh, rigid, screening material, located adjacent to the face of the core wherein the open surfaces of the said pounce storage reservoir and the said pounce distribution channels are located, said screening material serving as a support surface for the said pounce storage reservoir and distribution channels; (3) pounce-flow limiting material, located adjacent to said screening material, said flow limiting material serving to restrict the passage of pounce and to limit the amount of pounce available for subsequent permeation; (4) a foam pad, located adjacent to the said flow limiting material, said foam pad, being permeable to pounce, serving to evenly distribute, through its compressible surface, that pounce which penetrates the said flow limiting material; and (5) a cloth covering of brush-type cloth which distributes, in conjunction with a rubbing motion, that pounce which has been emitted from said foam pad, so that the pounce is applied to the perforated pattern in such a manner as to create a useful image on the underlying surface; wherein the said cloth covering encompasses the said foam pad, flow limiting material, screening material, and core face, and is securely attached to the sides of the core so as to create a replaceable pad unit; (b) a hollow vessel of hand-grasping size, which is divisible into two (2) parts, wherein one part, as a cover, is removable and serves to protect the contents when not in use, and the second part holds the contents by a secure fit and also acts as a handle during use when grasped in the hand of the user; said second part also having an opening formed in its outer surface for the purpose of establishing, in conjunction with the said adjacent and corresponding opening formed in said core, the said external pounce loading access channel; and (c) a plug which tightly fits and penetrates the opening formed in said containment vessel and the said corresponding opening formed in the said core, thereby sealing the pounce access channel, such plug being readily removable and reinsertable when the device requires reloading with pounce. 2. The pounce application device, as recited in claim 1, wherein the plug, in addition, has a bellows-designed protruding portion, wherein, as a result of external pressure manually applied by the user, said protruding portion collapses in bellows fashion, the air contained therein being compressed and thereby forced through the said pounce loading access channel into the said pounce storage reservoir and multiple distribution channels, where the increased air pressure enhances the flow of pounce from the said pad unit.