Fluid supply assembly

• US 8,196,770 B2
• Filed: 04/13/2009
• Issued: 06/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Carlisle Fluid Technologies Incorporated (Carlisle Cos., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
• Inventors: Kosmyna, Michael J., Wisniewski, Ralph A.
• Primary Examiner(s): GROSSO, HARRY A
• Application Number:
  US12/422,459
• Publication Number:
  US 20090200309A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,156 Days
• Field of Search: 220/23.86, 220/23.87, 220/495.01, 220/495.02, 239/302, 239/328, 215/11.3
• US Class Current: 220/495.02
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/2408 characterised by the container or its attachment means to the spray apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/2478 Gun with a container which, in normal use, is located above the gun
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/2481 with a flexible container for liquid or other fluent material

Abstract

A fluid supply assembly. The fluid supply assembly includes a disposable cup and lid, and a reusable cup holder and outer lid.

Claims

1. A flexible, disposable cup for use in a reusable cup holder for a spray gun, the disposable cup comprising a one-piece, smooth side wall, an open outlet end, and a closed bottom defining an interior, the outlet end defining an axis, and a straight flange extending downward from the side wall at the outlet end at an angle in a range of from about 10°

to about 70°

from the axis of the outlet end, wherein the disposable cup stands on the bottom, and wherein the side wall collapses when fluid is withdrawn from the disposable cup.

2. The disposable cup of claim 1 wherein the disposable cup is made of a substantially transparent polymeric material.

3. The disposable cup of claim 1 wherein the disposable cup has indicia for measuring fluids on the side wall.

4. The disposable cup of claim 1 wherein the straight flange of the disposable cup further comprises a removal tab.

5. The disposable cup of claim 1 wherein the side wall is generally cylindrical.

6. The disposable cup of claim 1 wherein the side wall is generally elliptical.

7. The disposable cup of claim 1 wherein the side wall has a generally cylindrical lower side wall portion and generally frustoconical upper side wall portion.

8. The disposable cup of claim 1 wherein the side wall has a generally cylindrical lower side wall portion, a generally frustoconical intermediate side wall portion, and a generally cylindrical upper side wall portion.

9. The disposable cup of claim 1 wherein the side wall has a generally elliptical lower side wall portion, a generally cylindrical upper side wall portion, and an intermediate side wall portion extending from the lower side wall portion to the upper side wall portion.

10. The disposable cup of claim 1 wherein the side wall has a generally cylindrical lower side wall portion, a generally cylindrical upper side wall portion, and an intermediate side wall portion extending from the lower side wall portion to the upper side wall portion.