ADJUSTABLE PAINT-ROLLER HOLDER

• US 3,593,361 A
• Filed: 06/09/1969
• Issued: 07/20/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David I. Welt
• Original Assignee: David I. Welt
• Inventors: Welt, David I.
• Application Number:
  US04/831,503
• Time in Patent Office: 771 Days
• US Class Current: 15/230.11
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 17/0217 comprising a frame supporting the coating roller at both ends or being intented to be hold at both ends by the user B05C17/0222, B05C17/0227, B05C17/0352, B05C17/0357 take precedence

Abstract

An adjustable paint roller holder for removably supporting relatively large rollers, i.e., 2 feet long and 3 to 4 inches in diameter, which includes a cross frame having a hollow of rectangular cross section defining elongated rectangular trackways for receiving extendable support arms having opposed coaxial trunnions extending from the ends and between which an enlarged paint roller is journaled, this construction being adapted for use in painting floors, walls and ceiling where a two-handed manipulation is feasible and large areas are to be painted, and more particularly where different sized rollers are necessary and can be readily interchanged for different uses.

Claims

1. A frame for removably supporting paint rollers comprising:

a support member having opposite ends, and including handlesecuring means at a generally central portion thereof for receiving a handle member;

an arm member extendably supported in each of the opposite ends of said support member, each of said arm members being L-shaped and including one portion reciprocally received in the support member and in mutual colinear relation with said one portion of the other arm in assembly and including another portion directed in a common direction away from said support member;

means on said support member frictionally and adjustably engaging said one portion of each of the arm members for fixedly adjusting the relative distance between said arm members, and each of the other portions of said arm members including coaxial trunnion portions extending toward each other for removably supporting different length paint rollers, said support member defining a generally tubular trackway having an opening at each of the opposite ends of the support member, said one portion of each of said arm members being sized for slidable receipt in the trackways of said support member and being substantially complementary to the cross section of said trackway, said means frictionally and adjustably engaging said arm members comprising manually rotatable retention screws threadably, rotatably supported adjacent opposite ends of said support members, said arm members including abutment portions projecting into said trackway inwardly of said retention screws for preventing withdrawal of the arms accidentally from the support member.

2. The structure as set forth in claim 1 including means for trapping the screws on said support member and preventing accidental loss thereof.

3. The structure as set forth in claim 1 wherein said support arms include indicia means therealong for determining the general position of the support frame.

4. The structure as set forth in claim 1 in which said handle-securing means extends angularly from an upward portion of said support member, and the support arms converge angularly away from said support member.

5. The structure as set forth in claim 1 wherein said trackway is rectangular in cross section.

6. The structure as set forth in claim 2 wherein the said one portion of the arm members include indicia means for determining the general position of the support frame.