Paint roller sleeve storage container

• US 7,823,724 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2009
• Issued: 11/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Obvious Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Kelly L. Mowe, William B. Mowe
• Inventors: Mowe, Kelly L., Mowe, William B.
• Primary Examiner(s): PICKETT, JOHN G
• Application Number:
  US12/456,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20090255837A1
• Time in Patent Office: 503 Days
• Field of Search: 206/361, 206/15.2, 206/15.3, 206/362.2, 206/362.3, 152/482, 152/570.6, 220/375, 220/666
• US Class Current: 206/361
• CPC Class Codes: B44D 3/125 Containers for storing paint brushes and the like, separate from the can used in painting operation
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/261 for draining or collecting liquids without absorbing them

Abstract

A storage container for paint roller sleeve includes a set of flutes on at least two opposing sides of an interior surface of said cylinder for stabilizing a roller cover in place from rattling inside of the housing and for holding said roller cover in place when extracting a roller frame from said roller cover. Each set of flutes includes three interior flutes that located between said two exterior flutes. The interior flutes include a middle flute that is set back a distance from the other two interior flutes so that when the exterior surface of the container is pressed inward said middle interior flute cuts into a paint roller sleeve housed within the container and the other two interior flutes bend outward around a nap of said roller sleeve to better hold said roller sleeve in place when a roller frame is being extracted from said roller sleeve.

Claims

1. A storage container for paint roller cover, comprising:

(a) a flexible, resilient tubular housing for removably storing the cover there within;

(b) the tubular housing including a centrally disposed chamber and a sealed end which defines a reservoir for holding excess paint;

distal from the sealed end, the housing terminating in an enlarged funnel-like opening for facilitating insertion of the sleeve into the chamber; and

(c) a set of flutes on at least two opposing sides of an interior surface of said cylinder for stabilizing a roller cover in place from rattling inside of said housing and for holding said roller cover in place when extracting a roller frame from said roller cover, each set of flutes includes two exterior flutes and three interior flutes that are located between said two exterior flutes, said exterior and interior flutes being located on an interior surface of the tubular housing, said interior flutes include a middle flute that is set back a distance from said other interior flutes so that when said exterior surface of said container is pressed inward said middle interior flute grips into a paint roller sleeve housed within said container and the other two interior flutes bend outward around a nap of said roller cover to better hold said roller cover in place when a roller frame is being extracted from said roller cover.

2. The roller storage container according to claim 1 wherein said interior middle flute is set back approximately ⅛

inch from said two other interior flutes.

3. The container according to claim 1 wherein said flutes each have an angled top surface to facilitate insertion of a paint sleeve into said container.

4. The container according to claim 3 wherein said angled top surface of each of said flutes is approximately 45°

.

5. The container according to claim 1 wherein said container has a bottom interior surface that includes a reservoir for collecting paint dripped from said paint cover.

6. The container according to claim 1 wherein said container includes a bottom surface that includes a reservoir formed as a reservoir having a circularly raised shape at a center of said bottom surface of said cylinder and has a circumference that matches a circumference of standard sized roller covers to prevent excess paint that drips into the reservoir from passing across the center so that paint will not rise up into the core of roller cover housed in the container.

7. The container according to claim 6 wherein said circularly raised reservoir has a ½

inch depth.

8. The container according to claim 1 further comprising a sealing cap removably attachable to the housing proximate with the opening.

9. The container according to claim 1 wherein said middle interior flute grips into said paint roller cover by cutting onto a nap of said paint roller cover.