Spraying apparatus

• US 3,871,557 A
• Filed: 08/02/1973
• Issued: 03/18/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fox Valley Marketing Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Thomas J. Smrt
• Inventors: Smrt, Thomas J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Reeves, Robert B.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Marmor, Charles A.
• Application Number:
  US05/385,168
• Time in Patent Office: 593 Days
• Field of Search: 222/176,174,470,471,472,473,474,183,394,402.15,177,160,162,164,191 239/150,146,286,578 280/47.2
• US Class Current: 222/162
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 9/0805 comprising a pressurised or compressible container for liquid or other fluent material B05B9/085 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/203 comprising an extension rod located between the aerosol container and the hand grip setting-out line markings on playing courts A63C19/065; marking-out on finished paving by spraying from aerosol containers E01C23/227
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/267 by a separate device actuated by repeated, e.g. human, input, e.g. by a moving wing of a door or window, a ringing doorbell, a flushing toilet
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/46 Tilt valves B65D83/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 23/227 the marking material being supplied in aerosol containers

Abstract

A compact spraying apparatus for spraying the contents of aerosol spray cans includes an elongated frame having a spraying end and a handle end. The spraying end is equipped with wheels which permits the spraying end to be rolled over the surface to be sprayed, and the spraying end is provided with a spraying enclosure which moves over the surface to protect the spray from wind. An aerosol spray can is mounted in the frame with its valve within the spraying enclosure. The valve is maintained stationery, and the can is mounted for pivotal movement about the valve to permit the valve to be opened when the can is moved laterally relative thereto. The can is maintained in a nonactuated position by an elastic band, and the can can be pivoted into a acuated position in which the valve is opened by an elongated filament which extends through a portion of the periphery of the can so that tensioning the filament pivots the can.

Claims

1. A spraying apparatus comprising a valve-equipped aerosol can having contents to be sprayed and an elongated frame having a spraying end and a handle end, holding means on the frame pivotally mounting the can for pivotal movement between an actuated position and a non-actuated position, the holding means including arcuately extending bumper means receiving the can in the non-actuated position and having a pair of side walls, valve abutment means on the frame engaging the valve of the can, the valve being of the type which is opened by lateral movement of the valve relative to the can whereby pivoting movement of the can from the non-actuated position to the actuated position opens the valve, a cord mounted on the frame and extending arcuately around a portion of the periphery of the can between the side walls of the bumper means when the can is in the non-actuated position, the cord extending from the can through each of the side walls to the handle end of the frame, tensioning of the cord at the handle end causing straightening of the cord between the side walls of the bumper means and causing pivoting of the can relative to the valve from the non-actuated position to the actuated position to open the valve, resilient return means mounted on the frame and engaging the can and urging the can into the non-actuated position, a casing portion surrounding the valve abutment means and providing a spraying chamber, the casing portion extending adjacent the surface to be sprayed whereby the contents being sprayed are protected from the wind, and wheels mounted on the frame for supporting the casing portion adjacent the surface to be sprayed.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the wheels include a first pair of wheels rotatably mounted on the spraying end of the frame and a second pair of wheels rotatably mounted on a wheel frame movably mounted on the frame for movement between a storage position and a use position in which the first and second pairs of wheels support the casing portion adjacent the surface to be sprayed.