US1864059A - Self-sealing one-piece drip collector - Google Patents

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June 21, 1932. s. M. FRENKEL 1,854,059

SELF SEALING ONE-PIECE DRIP COLLECTOR Filed March 15, 1932 ATTORN EY Patented June 21, 1932 UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE SAMUEL M. FBENKEL, 01 NEW YORK, N. Y ASSIGNOR TO SUPERSE'I BBUSECO INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK SELF-SEALING ONE-PIECE DRIP COLLECTOR Application filed mafia: 15, 1932. Serial no. 598,891.

This invention relates to paint brushes and the like and has particular reference to paint dri collector cups therefor.

ne object of the invention is to provide a device of the character described having a paint drip collector cup havlng features ofelasticity co-operating in an improved manner with a brush head; and another object of the invention is to furnish an improved paint drip collector cup which is adjustable for brush heads of difierent sizes, which is preferably self retaining on the brush head and which may be self sealing therewith, which is slidable into engagement with any desired part of the brush head, such as the ferrule or bristles thereof, and is flexible so as to be easily cleaned, and is adapted to act as a support or cushion for the brush.

Another object is to provide a device including an im roved one piece elastic annularl paint drip co lector cup stretched around a brush head so as to besealed and secured therewith without requiring fastening means, and which includes a projecting inner wall portion affording a fingergrip so that the cup can be readily pulled up on a brush head. A further object of the invention is the provision of a device of the nature set forth having few and simple parts and which is inexpensive to manufacture and assemble,

durable, reliable and efiicient to a high degree in use.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

With the aforesaid objects in view the invention consists in the novel combinations and arrangements of arts hereinafter described in their pre erred embodiments, pointed out in the subjoined claim, and illustrated on the annexed drawing, wherein like parts are designated by the same reference characters throu hout the several views.

The drawing s ows a view in vertical section of a paint drip collector embodying the invention, and a typical application thereof to a brush head, shown in side elevation.

The advantages of the invention as here outlined are best realized when all of its features and instrumentalities are combined in one and the same structure, but, useful devices may be produced embodying less than the whole.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains, that the same may be incorporated in several different constructions. The accompany drawing, therefore, is submitted merely as showing the preferred exemplification of the invention.

. Generally described, this invention provides a device including an annular paint drip collector cup consisting of an elastic materlal and stretched around a brush head so as to reliably frictionally be retained thereonin self sealing relation therewith. Said cup may have an integral portion to effect a strong sealing action, which portion may be in the nature of a flange orinner wall. The cup so constructed is compact and occupies little space. It may be mounted around the ferrule of the brush head, or with a part of the inner wall engaging over an edge of the ferrule to seal the same with the core therein, or

. it may embrace the bristles of the brush head so as to hold the same snugly together. I Thus, while the cup is preferably unfastened to the brush head and is slidably adjustable therealong, the different positions produce different unctional relationships. The drip collector cup can beregarded as a molded elastic band which is fully operatively mounted by stretching the same on forcing the brush head therethrou h. However, the cup may also be mounted y means of any suitable fasteners if desired. The drip collector may include inner and outer annular walls connected together to form the bottom of the cup, and the inner wall extending to a substantialdegree beyond the outer Wall to afford afinger grip for pulling the elastic cup up on brush head, thus avoiding curling and obstruction by said inner wall due to frictional resistance with the brush head. The projecting portion of the inner wall also serves to yieldingly hold the bristles together,.

, while the cup may be located at a suflicient distance from the bristles to facilitate the normal use of the brush.

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eludes any brush head 12 and an annular paint drip collector cup 23 which may have an outer wall 24 and an inner wall 25 continuously interconnected to form the bottom of the cup, the inner wall having; flange part extendin to a substantial degree above the outer wal of the cup. The flange 26 may be elastic, and continuous, if desired. By this arrangement, the cup may be elastically m stretched around and slidably positioned at any desired part of the head remote from the brlstles l and yet hold the latter together and seal the bristle securing ferrule 15. Thus, while the outer wall 24 may be located 5 adjacent to or in the re ion of the ferrule, the

inner wall may exten to a substantial degree therebeyond and effectually prevent dri pings from leaking through the ferrule. he aint drip collector cup may be mounte as by forcing the brush head therethrough. The operation may be performed manually or by machine. Thus, the'fiange 26 may be grasped and the cup thereby pulled into posltion. The cup can in this manner be applied to brushes of difi'erent thicknesses and allows for variations in the manufacture of the brushes. Likewise the cup is slidably adjustable into different positions along the brush head. The outer wall may be'compara- 9 tively thin so that it can be flexed back upon itself to fully expose the interior of the cup and facilitate cleaning thereof. To preventscratching of furniture, the cup constltutes a resilient cushion around the brush and may support the head when the brush is placed on a horizontal surface.

The drip collector cup can be made by molding the same of rubber as a one piece 1 article that is light in weight and requires no 40 special finishing or mounting operations.

However, the cup can also be made of any rliliher yielding material, such as felt and the It will be appreciated that various changes and modifications may be. made in the device as shown in the drawing, and that the same is submitted in an illustrative and not in a limiting sense, the scope of the invention being defined in the following claim.

claim:

A paint drip collector annular cup for brushes and separable therefrom, including an inner elongated annular wall and an outer annular wall continuously connected to the j lower end of said inner wall at the bottom of the cup to form an annular cup therewith having a central opening for slidably receivin a brush, the inner wall projecting to a su stantial de -ree beyond the outer wall, said walls being 0 one plece elastic construction, whereby the drip collector cup can be pulled upon a brush by grasping the projecting free 7 ed e portion of the inner wall.

Tn testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

SAMUEL M. FRENKEL.

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