# US 10,369,591 B2 · Pipe painter assembly > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,369,591 B2 - Document ID: US10369591B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/461,715 - Filed: 2014-08-18 - Published: 2015-02-26 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2013-08-21 - Assignees: The Wooster Brush Company - Applicants: The Wooster Brush Company - Inventors: James M. Byrne - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10369591B2 ## CPC - B05C 17/0212: {the coating surface of the roller being a body of revolution generated by a generatrix that is not a straight line parallel to the roller axis, e.g. for allowing coating of non planar surfaces (B05C17/0227, B05C17/0352 take precedence)} - B05C 17/0227: {comprising several coating rollers (B05C17/0352 takes precedence)} - B05C: APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL (spraying apparatus, atomising apparatus, nozzles B05B; plant for applying liquids or other fluent materials to objects by electrostatic spraying B05B5/08) ## Abstract A pipe painter assembly comprises a handle and a pair of paint roller frames. The paint roller frames comprise respective shaft portions for rotatably supporting respective paint roller cover supports thereon and respective rod portions extending at an angle relative to the respective shaft portions. The handle has a pair of laterally spaced axially extending substantially parallel bores in which outer ends of the respective rod portions are selectively rotatably mounted, whereby turning of either or both of the respective rod portions in either direction in the respective bores will vary the angular orientation of the paint roller cover supports relative to one another for accommodating different size pipes or other articles between the roller cover supports. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A pipe painter assembly comprising a handle and a pair of paint roller frames, the paint roller frames comprising respective shaft portions for rotatably supporting respective paint roller cover supports thereon and respective rod portions extending at an angle relative to the respective shaft portions for attaching the respective roller frames to the handle, and the handle having a pair of laterally spaced axially extending bores in substantially axially parallel fixed relation to one another in which outer ends of the respective rod portions are selectively mounted for rotation in opposite directions, wherein the bores remain in substantially axially parallel fixed relation to one another during such rotation of the rod portions in opposite directions, whereby turning of either or both of the respective rod portions in either direction in the respective bores will vary an angular orientation of the paint roller cover supports relative to one another for accommodating different size pipes or other articles between the roller cover supports. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The pipe painter assembly of claim 1 wherein inner ends of the respective bores in the handle contain first counterbores, and one of the respective counterbores and the respective rod portions has a plurality of circumferentially spaced notches, and the other of the respective counterbores and the respective rod portions has a plurality of circumferentially spaced gear teeth that are selectively engageable in a corresponding number of the notches for releasably retaining the rod portions in any one of a plurality of incremental angular adjusted positions in the respective bores. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The pipe painter assembly of claim 1 wherein inner ends of the respective bores in the handle contain first counterbores having a plurality of circumferentially spaced notches in an inner wall of the respective first counterbores, and the respective rod portions have a plurality of circumferentially spaced gear teeth mounted thereon in axial spaced relation from an outermost end of the rod portions that are selectively engageable in a corresponding number of the notches for releasably retaining the rod portions in any one of a plurality of incremental angular positions in the respective bores. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The pipe painter assembly of claim 2 wherein the gear teeth are part of gear housings molded or otherwise attached to the respective rod portions. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The pipe painter assembly of claim 2 further comprising spring means for biasing the gear teeth into engagement with the respective notches in the respective first counterbores. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The pipe painter assembly of claim 5 wherein the spring means is received in respective second counterbores adjacent outer ends of the respective bores, and outer ends of the respective rod portions extend through the respective spring means. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The pipe painter assembly of claim 6 wherein the spring means is captivated between a shoulder at an inner end of the respective second counterbores and a pushnut on an outermost end of the respective rod portions. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The pipe painter assembly of claim 7 further comprising respective third counterbores in an outer end of the respective second counterbores for receiving the respective pushnuts upon pushing the respective pushnuts against a bias of the respective spring means to disengage the gear teeth from the respective notches to permit the respective rod portions of either or both of the roller frames to be indexed to different positions relative to one another for varying an angular orientation of the roller cover supports relative to one another. ### Claim 9 (depends on 2) The pipe painter assembly of claim 2 wherein there are twelve circumferentially spaced notches that are selectively disengageable by the respective gear teeth to permit turning of the respective rod portions in a same or different directions within the respective bores to allow the respective roller cover supports to be indexed in increments of 30° or more. ### Claim 10 (depends on 2) The pipe painter assembly of claim 2 wherein the respective shaft portions are substantially orthogonal to the respective rod portions. ### Claim 11 (depends on 2) The pipe painter assembly of claim 2 wherein the respective rod portions have oppositely angled portions intermediate the respective gear teeth and the respective shaft portions that extend in opposite directions relative to one another when the respective roller cover supports are in substantially parallel alignment with one another to alter a spacing between the roller cover supports when so oriented. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The pipe painter assembly of claim 11 wherein the oppositely angled portions of the respective shaft portions extend inwardly toward one another when the respective roller cover supports are in substantially parallel alignment with one another to reduce the spacing between the roller cover supports when so oriented. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The pipe painter assembly of claim 1 further comprising a cross member adjacent an inner end of the handle, the cross member having opposite end portions extending laterally outwardly beyond opposite sides of the handle containing the respective bores. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The pipe painter assembly of claim 13 wherein the respective bores in the opposite end portions of the cross member extend axially inwardly of the inner end of the handle. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The pipe painter assembly of claim 14 wherein an outer end of the handle comprises a hand grip having an axis substantially parallel to axes of the respective bores. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The pipe painter assembly of claim 15 wherein the hand grip contains a threaded socket having an axis substantially parallel to the axes of the respective bores. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The pipe painter assembly of claim 1 wherein paint roller covers are supported by the respective paint roller cover supports.