Holding box for paint-applying roller wet with paint
AssigneeBrush Saver, Inc.
InventorBruce W. Roundy
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Abstract
A paint roller filled with wet paint may be stored for a period of time, such a over lunch break or overnight, or for longer times, and still be useable for painting, by substantially sealing the roller while attached to the usual handle-attached, paint applicator to which the roller is mounted, in an elongate box which covers the roller and through an opening in which a portion of the paint applicator extends. The portion of the paint applicator extending through the opening is substantially sealed by deformable paint solvent absorbent material in the opening to which a small amount of paint solvent, such as water, is added to maintain a solvent rich atmosphere in the box to help maintain the paint on the roller in wet, usable condition.
Claims20
An elongate box made to be supported longitudinally and substantially horizontally for temporarily storing a paint-applying roller wet with paint, comprising mutually opposite, lower and upper, elongate, longitudinal walls;
- mutually opposite, upstanding, longitudinal side walls;
- and mutually opposite, upstanding end walls;
- said walls defining therebetween interior space for receiving, longitudinally, a paint-applying roller mounted on a handle-provided, paint applicator and being wet with paint;
- an opening in one of the upstanding walls of the box for receiving and passing therethrough a portion of the roller-mounting, handle-provided paint applicator, so the handle of said applicator will be external to the box;
- solvent absorbing material positioned in the box to receive and hold solvent therein and release solvent vapors into the box to help prevent drying of the paint on the roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.