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US 4,071,214 AGranted
Holder for paint cans and the like
OwnerRobert A. Reidyinventor
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Abstract
A holder for cans of paint and the like has a receptacle for a can and two hooks extending from the receptacle. One of the hooks extends upwardly from the receptacle and serves to be hooked over one rung of a ladder so as to suspend the receptacle therefrom; the other hook projects laterally outwardly from the receptacle and serves for hooking over a different rung of the ladder so as to stabilize the suspended receptacle relative thereto.
Claims4
A holder for paint cans and the like, comprising in combination
- a cage-like receptacle having an upright central axis;
- first hook means comprising a U-shaped wire having a bight portion extending across the bottom of said receptacle, and two upright arms extending upwardly along opposite sides of said receptacle and having upper end portions shaped as two first hooks extending upwardly from said receptacle at diametrically opposite locations at the circumference of said receptacle for suspending the same from a rung of a ladder and facing laterally away from one side of said axis;
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- second hook means including a second hook facing laterally away from the opposite side of said axis at a location on said circumference which is intermediate said diametrically opposite locations, for connection with another rung of said ladder so as to stabilize said receptacle thereon, said receptacle being capable of being secured to the rungs of said ladder at an inner side of a ladder leg which faces away from an outer side thereof at which a user of the ladder climbs up and down due to the hooks of said hook means facing away from said axis in mutually opposite lateral directions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.