US 3,945,527 AGranted

Paint brush wiping device

OwnerAndrew A. Pylantinventor

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Abstract

A paint brush wiping device is provided for use with paint cans of the type having a circular lid-attaching portion that comprises inner and outer concentric beads with a friction groove therebetween. The paint brush wiping device includes a circular rim having a circumferential friction tongue for sealably engaging the friction groove of the paint can. A wiper blade is attached to the circular rim by means of a web. The wiper blade includes a wiping surface adjacent to a rectangular brush-opening in the device; and the wiper blade includes a wiping edge which is exposed to the rectangular brush-opening. The rectangular brush-opening provides a first fluid flow path for the return of excess paint to the paint can and a second fluid flow path is provided intermediate of the wiper blade and a proximal portion of the circular rim as a second means of returning excess paint to the paint can.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A paint brush wiping device for use with paint cans of the type having a circular lid-attaching portion that includes inner and outer concentric beads with a circumferential friction groove therebetween, which device comprises:

a. a circular rim having upper and lower surfaces and including circumferential friction tongue means depending from said lower surface for sealably and attachably engaging said friction groove;
b. a web having a circular outer periphery and a first rectangular opening therethrough, being interposed into said rim in planar relationship to said surfaces, and having said outer periphery attached to said rim;
c. four elongated trough portions, being disposed in a rectangular pattern, having outer rectangular dimensions conforming to said first rectangular opening, having a second rectangular opening therethrough intermediate of said four elongated trough portions, being disposed within said first rectangular opening in planar relationship thereto, being attached to said rim proximal to said first rectangular opening, and including perforation means therethrough for the return of fluid from said trough portions to said paint can;
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d. wiper blade means, comprising four elongated and substantially straight wiper blades each having an elongated wiping edge, being disposed in a second rectangular pattern, having outer dimensions conforming to said second rectangular opening, having a third rectangular opening therethrough that provides a rectangular paint brush opening with said wiping edges proximal thereto, being disposed within said second rectangular opening in planar relationship thereto, and being attached to respective ones of said trough portions proximal to said second rectangular opening.

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A paint brush wiping device for use with paint cans of the type having a circular lid-attaching portion that includes inner and outer concentric beads with aa circumferential friction groove therebetween, which device comprises:

a. a circular rim having upper and lower surfaces and including means for removably attaching said rim to said lid-attaching portion and for excluding paint from said friction groove;
b. a pair of elongated and substantially straight wiper blades each having a wiping edge thereupon, being disposed with said wiping edges in spaced-apart proximal relationship to each other, and being disposed intermediate of said rim and in substantially planar relationship to said surfaces;
c. a pair of elongated trough portions each being interposed between one of said wiper blades and a proximal portion of said rim, each being in planar relationship to said surfaces, each being in elongated parallel relationship to said wiper blades, each being attached to the proximal one of said wiper blades, each including perforation means for the return of paint from respective ones of said trough portions to said paint can, and each cooperating with one of said wiper blades to form an open trough that opens toward said upper surfaces;
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d. web means, being interposed between said trough portions and said respective proximal portions of said rim and being in substantially planar relationship to said upper and lower surfaces, for securing said wiper blades and said trough portions to said rim.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.