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US 8,938,843 B2Granted
Paint brush cleaning device
AssigneePaint Piranha, Inc.
InventorRichard Garland Junkins
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Abstract
A device for cleaning paint from a paintbrush is provided. Interlocking teeth are affixed to two cleaning heads rotatably connected together. The cleaning heads “sandwich” the bristles of the paintbrush and pull paint from the brush. Squeegee bars affixed to each of the cleaning heads clean paint from the outside of the brush while V-shaped teeth on tooth plates clean paint from within the bristles.
Claims17
A device comprising:
- a first cleaning head comprising a first tooth plate;
- a second cleaning head comprising a second tooth plate, the first tooth plate comprising a first plurality of teeth and the second tooth plate comprising a second plurality of teeth;
- whereby the first plurality of teeth are interlockable with the second plurality of teeth to form interlocked teeth when the first and second cleaning heads are drawn together;
- a handle rotatably connecting the first cleaning head to the second cleaning head, wherein the handle comprises a first arm rigidly affixed to the first cleaning head and a second arm rigidly affixed to the second cleaning head, and wherein the first and second tooth plates are disposed generally perpendicular to longitudinal axes of the first and second arms, such that the interlocked teeth are positioned transverse to the longitudinal axes, and wherein the interlocked teeth extend beyond opposed side edges of the first and second arms.
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A device comprising:
- a first cleaning head comprising a first plurality of teeth;
- a second cleaning head comprising a second plurality of teeth;
- whereby the first plurality of teeth are interlockable with the second plurality of teeth;
- a handle rotatably connecting the first cleaning head to the second cleaning head, wherein the handle comprises a first arm rigidly affixed to the first cleaning head and a second arm rigidly affixed to the second cleaning head, wherein the first cleaning head further comprises a first squeegee bar and the second cleaning head further comprises a second squeegee bar.
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A device comprising:
- a handle comprising a first arm and a second arm rotatably coupled together;
- the first arm comprising a first cleaning head;
- the second arm comprising a second cleaning head;
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- wherein the first cleaning head comprises a first tooth plate, the first tooth plate comprising a first plurality of teeth and the second cleaning head comprises a second tooth plate, the second tooth plate comprising a second plurality of teeth, and
- wherein the first tooth plate extends toward the second tooth plate, and wherein the first plurality of teeth is interlockable with the second plurality of teeth to form interlocked teeth when the first and second cleaning heads are drawn together, and wherein the first and second tooth plates and the interlocked teeth are disposed generally perpendicular to longitudinal axes of the first and second arms, and wherein the first and second tooth plates and the first and second plurality of teeth extend beyond opposed side edges of the first and second arms, respectively.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.