Paint roller cover cleaner
AssigneeRoller Blaster Limited
InventorStephen Robert Bentley
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Abstract
A paint roller cover cleaner for cleaning a paint roller cover. The paint roller cover cleaner has one or more nozzles that spray the cover and that may each produce a fan-shaped jet in a plane that is at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the roller cover. The paint roller cover cleaner may also have a clamp for clamping a handle of the paint roller, another nozzle for cleaning an enclosure of the paint roller cover cleaner, a lid for the enclosure that drips within the mouth of the enclosure and does not move laterally across the roller cover to open. A system including a paint roller cover cleaner and a fluid supply that can contain the paint roller cover cleaner is also provided.
Claims9
A paint roller cover cleaner comprising:
- an enclosure for receiving a roller cover;
- a roller cover-cleaning nozzle configured to direct a first jet of fluid at the nap of the roller cover to facilitate cleaning of the roller cover;
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- an enclosure-cleaning nozzle configured to direct a second jet of fluid at an inner surface of the enclosure for cleaning the enclosure;
- wherein the enclosure-cleaning nozzle is configured to move about a cavity within the enclosure to direct the second jet of fluid at different areas of the interior of the enclosure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.