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US 7,841,796 B2Granted
Paint trim tool with adjustable valve
AssigneeDiversified Dynamics Corporation
InventorsDaniel Bruggeman, Stephen Kohs, Dion M. McDevitt
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Abstract
A hand-held trim painting tool consists of a cylindrical body holding paint to be dispensed in a reservoir within the cylindrical body, a head attached to the body, a removable paint applicator attached to the head, a mechanism for loading paint into the reservoir, a valve permitting paint to be dispensed from the reservoir, an actuator incrementally opening and closing the valve, and a dispensing rate adjuster to regulate the rate at which paint is dispensed.
Claims9
A hand-held trim painting tool, comprising:
- (a) a cylindrical body including a removable head with a nozzle at one end of the body and a cap at the other end of the body;
- (b) a paint reservoir within the cylindrical body adapted to receive and store paint;
- (c) an external handle slidably mounted in the cap connected to a biased plunger within the reservoir to draw paint into the reservoir through the nozzle and to pressurize the paint within the reservoir;
- (d) a valve permitting paint to be dispensed from the paint reservoir to the nozzle;
- (e) a trigger opening and closing the valve, wherein the trigger pivots upon the cylindrical body and wherein the trigger further comprises at least one arm sliding into and out of the body acting upon the valve to incrementally open the valve as the arm slides further into the body and the dispensing rate adjuster adjusts the distance in which the arm slides into the body to regulate the rate at which paint is dispensed from the valve to the applicator;
- (f) an applicator attached to the head for receiving and dispensing paint from the reservoir through the nozzle;
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- (h) a dispensing rate adjuster to regulate the rate at which paint is dispensed from the valve to the applicator.
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A hand-held trim painting tool, comprising:
- (a) a cylindrical body including a removable head with a nozzle at one end of the body and a cap at the other end of the body;
- (b) a paint reservoir within the cylindrical body adapted to receive and store paint;
- (c) an external handle slidably mounted in the cap connected to a biased plunger within the reservoir to draw paint into the reservoir through the nozzle and to pressurize the paint within the reservoir;
- (d) a valve permitting paint to be dispensed from the paint reservoir to the nozzle;
- (e) a trigger for opening and closing the valve, wherein the trigger comprises a lever pivoting upon the cylindrical body, the lever having arms sliding into and out of the body, the arms acting upon the valve to incrementally open the valve as the arms slide further into the body;
- (f) an applicator attached to the head for receiving and dispensing paint from the reservoir through the nozzle;
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- (g) a dispensing rate adjuster for regulating the rate at which paint is dispensed from the valve to the applicator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.