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US 2011/0297078 A1Published application
Drywall Mud Hopper for Inside and Outside Corners
OwnerTimothy Smytheinventor
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A drywall hopper assembly that contains a double blade that can apply drywall mud to both interior and exterior drywall corners with no blade change. A zigzag blade can contain two grooves, one for interior corners and one for exterior corners. With this blade arrangement, an operator can quickly move from one type of corner to another without using multiple tools, multiple blades or hand application methods to apply mud. The present invention can contain a pliable release port to present mud equally to an interior or an exterior corner. There can be such a port on both the top and bottom of the blade so that mud is smoothly applied as trim moves through the hopper or the hopper is moved along the trim.
A mud dispensing hopper comprising:
A mud hopper for use in drywall finishing work where mud is used to finish both interior and exterior drywall corners, the mud hopper being filed with wet mud from the top and dispensing the wet mud from the bottom through a mud dispensing hole, the mud hopper including a blade mounted in proximity to the bottom of the mud hopper so that wet mud flows out of the hopper and along the blade to and onto a drywall corner, flow of wet mud being controlled by at least one control plate mounted in proximity to the blade in a position to control rate of flow of the mud, the control plate being adjustable to allow different mud flow rates, the control plate being shaped to approximately match the contour of the blade;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.