US 3,980,213 AGranted

Covers for paint cans

AssigneeThree Dimensional Circuits, Inc.

InventorRichard A. Ramsay

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Abstract

A cover for an open paint can having a rim about its top, the cover comprising a peripheral lower portion adapted snugly to engage the rim of the top of the paint can. The cover is provided approximately centrally thereof with a brush opening having at least one straight edge defined by a wall raised relative the adjacent area of the cover. The cover is provided wih an arcuate raised pouring lip at one area along its periphery and with an arcuately bounded opening located adjacent the lip. The top surface of the cover may be inclined or dished so that paint thereon will drain to the lowest point from which it will fall back into the paint can. The cover may be fixed to a paint can and another member of different design may be affixed to the bottom of the paint can, the member simultaneously serving as a closure for a can therebelow to permit stacking. Advantageously a removable sealing member is provided, having two portions for closing the brush and pouring openings so that once the cover is placed on the can it may be left permanently thereon and only the sealing member is removed and replaced.

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Dependent claims

Covering means for an open paint can having a rim about its top, said covering means comprising a cover and sealing means therefor, said cover comprising a generally planar surface having a peripheral lower portion depending therefrom and adapted to snugly engage the rim of the top of the paint can, said cover being provided approximately centrally of said surface with a brush opening having a pair of parallel straight edges defined by walls extending up from said surface for wiping both faces of a brush moved back and forth in said brush opening, one of said walls being undercut whereby paint thereby wiped off a brush will flow back into said paint can, said cover being further provided with an arcuate raised pouring lip at one area along the periphery of said surface and with an arcuate bounded pouring opening leading to said lip, said cover being contoured in its upper surface so that any paint thereon will flow by gravity toward and into said brush opening and said pouring opening, said sealing means having a generally planar first portion conforming in contour to said brush opening, a second planar portion conforming to said pouring opening, and a peripheral wall about said first and second portions for contact with the edges of said openings, removal of said wall from said openings permitting access to the inside of said can.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.