US 4,066,557 AGranted

Paint strainer

OwnerJoseph A. Banocziinventor

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Abstract

The present invention provides a means for separating free flowing paint from lumps in the paint. Towards this end the embodiment of the present invention is a paint strainer screen preferably circular in configuration. The strainer in question, in its simplest form is manufactured from a circular disk of an ordinary wire screen, reinforced at its outer edge with a circular rim. The screen is somewhat smaller in diameter than the opening in the paint can so that it can be readily inserted into the can proper. By means of a stick the screen strainer is forced into the paint which prior to this has been thoroughly mixed with the stick. As the screen moves towards the bottom while being pushed by the stick, the free flowing paint passes through the wire mesh in the screen and collects above it, while the lumps in the paint collect on the bottom of the can under the screen.

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Dependent claims

A paint can fitment for separating lumps of coagulated paint from free flowing paint comprising a screen strainer, said screen having an arcuate circumference, a means for reinforcing the arcuate circumference of said screen and comprising an arcuate reinforcing section, said section being a separate member;

and a pair of ears mounted in substantially opposite disposition upon said section, each of said ears having an opening in substantial alignment with the opening in the opposite ear, and a handle having a pair of bent extensions, with each said extension inserted in an opening in one of the aforesaid ears, whereby said strainer is adapted for sliding and substantially sealing engagement with the interior curved wall of a conventional paint can and for permitting said strainer to be pressed down through paint in said can to filter said paint by holding lumps of coagulated paint beneath said strainer, thereby permitting utilization of the filtered paint above said strainer.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.