Multi-piece lid for paint pails and other pail shaped containers

A multi-piece lid device for a pail-shaped container, said device comprising:

• a mounting base for securement to the pail-shaped container at a top rim thereof, said mounting base comprising an outer mounting rim of downwardly-opening channel-shaped configuration for mated fitting over said top rim of the paint container, said outer mounting rim spanning around a recessed center wall of the mounting base that is of recessed elevation relative to a topside of said outer rim;
• at least one opening that penetrates through said recessed center wall and through which a pourable medium is introducible into, or pourable from, the pail-type container in an installed state of the mounting base thereon;
• and
• a removable cover embodied separately of the mounting base and selectively engageable thereto in a closed position seated atop the recessed center wall in closed relation over the at least open opening therein, and removable from the mounting base to re-open said at least one opening;
• wherein:
• the least one hole in the recessed center wall of the mounting base comprises an array of straining holes distributed throughout at least part of the center wall to define a strainer through which the pourable medium is strainable during pouring thereof from the pail-shaped container through said straining holes when the removable cover is removed;
• the at least one hole further comprises an additional isolated hole of larger size than the straining holes that is offset from the array of straining holes at a spaced distance therefrom of greater measure than a hole diameter of the straining holes, said isolated hole being unaccompanied by any additional holes of said larger size;
• and
• the removable cover is configured to cover, in the closed position thereof, both said array of straining holes and said additional isolated hole of said larger size.

A multi-piece lid device for a pail-shaped container, said device comprising:

• a mounting base for securement to the pail-shaped container at a top rim thereof, said mounting base comprising an outer mounting rim of downwardly-opening channel-shaped configuration for mated fitting over said top rim of the paint container, said outer mounting rim spanning around a recessed center wall of the mounting base that is of recessed elevation relative to a topside of said outer rim;
• at least one opening that penetrates through said recessed center wall and through which a pourable medium is introducible into, or pourable from, the pail-type container in an installed state of the mounting base thereon;
• a removable cover embodied separately of the mounting base and selectively engageable thereto in a closed position seated atop the recessed center wall in closed relation over the at least open opening therein, and removable from the mounting base to re-open said at least one opening;
• and
• at least one movable cover holder on the mounting base that is movable between a holding position jutting inwardly over an outermost perimeter of the removable cover to hold the removable cover in the closed position, and a release position retracted outwardly beyond the outermost perimeter;
• wherein the removable cover comprises an upstanding cylindrical wall at a topside thereof that spans circumferentially around the removable cover in proximity to the outermost perimeter thereof, but offset a short distance inwardly from said outermost perimeter to leave an outer peripheral margin of the removable cover exposed outside said upstanding cylindrical wall, and the at least one movable cover holder, in the holding position thereof, engages over said outer peripheral margin of the removable cover from the outermost perimeter thereof, and said upstanding cylindrical wall stands taller from the mounting base than the at least movable cover holder.