Paint mixing and conditioning machine
AssigneeRed Devil, Inc.
InventorsRichard D. Schotter, Robert P. Heinis
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Abstract
A paint mixing and conditioning apparatus in which a paint filled container is simultaneously tumbled end over end while being rotated about its longitudinal axis. The container is clamped to a pulley shaped disc which is rotatably carried by spaced resilient wheels journaled in an upstanding plate. The container clamp is disposed to extend across openings in the upstanding plate and disc. The pulley shaped disc is driven peripherally by a resilient drive wheel coupled to a power source to tumble the container. A beveled friction wheel, coupled to the container clamp and in frictional contact with the upstanding plate, rotates the container as the pulley shaped disc is turned.
Claims6
A paint mixing and conditioning machine comprising in combination:
- (a) a base support;
- (b) an upstanding support plate having an aperture therein secured to the base support;
- (c) a plurality of spaced resilient wheels journaled in the upstanding support and extending outwardly therefrom;
- (d) a pulley-shaped circular disc having a window therein in register with the support plate aperture, said disc being peripherally and rotatably carried by the spaced resilient wheels;
- (e) a source of rotary power carried by the support plate;
- (f) a resilient drive wheel secured to the power source and in frictional contact with the pulley-shaped circular disc;
- (g) A first clamping plate to receive the bottom of the container for the paint;
- (h) a second clamping plate to secure the said container against the first clamping plate;
- said first and second clamping plates being disposed normal to the support plate and the pulley shaped disc and extending through the aperture and window therein;
- (i) means to urge the second clamping plate in the direction of the first clamping plate;
- (j) a resilient friction drive wheel freely carried by the pulley shaped disc adjacent the first clamping plate in contact with the support plate;
- (k) a shaft secured at one end to the drive wheel and at its opposite end to the first clamping plate;
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- (l) a stud carried by the clamping means, freely supporting the second clamping plate to permit rotational movement of the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.