EP0958149B1 - Device for cleaning paint rollers - Google Patents

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EP0958149B1
EP0958149B1 EP97941303A EP97941303A EP0958149B1 EP 0958149 B1 EP0958149 B1 EP 0958149B1 EP 97941303 A EP97941303 A EP 97941303A EP 97941303 A EP97941303 A EP 97941303A EP 0958149 B1 EP0958149 B1 EP 0958149B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44D—PAINTING OR ARTISTIC DRAWING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PRESERVING PAINTINGS; SURFACE TREATMENT TO OBTAIN SPECIAL ARTISTIC SURFACE EFFECTS OR FINISHES
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  • the object of the invention is a device to clean painting rollers from a paint.
  • Such rollers are a piece of equipment used to paint different surfaces.
  • the roller is used to pick up a suitable quantity of a paint from a container and next to cover with this paint - by means of the roller rotation - surfaces intended to be painted. After painting, not to let the paint to dry out, the rollers are directly cleaned in manual way by means of squeezing and twisting off the outer, paint absorbing coating under a stream of warm water. Due to a direct contact of a person with a paint and frequent application of cold water, the cleaning is unpleasant and toilsome process.
  • Different kinds of open-work or solid plates with convexities are known, e.g. according to the patent application no PL-A-311 199, the plates are assigned to scrap an excessive amount of paint to uniformly distribute a suitable quantity of a paint on the roller before painting process of an intended surface.
  • a device for cleaning paint rollers comprising a blade member which is secured to a handle such that it lies in a central plane of the handle is known from DE-U-9 300 198, GB-A-2 270 464 , FR-A-2 147 406 and US-A-5 546 625.
  • the aim of the invention is to design a device which could facilitate the cleaning of the painting rollers from a paint to reach high efficiency of cleaning with limited water waste.
  • fig. 1 represents the device in a partial, vertical section
  • fig. 2 magnified lower part of the device in separated position, in a partial vertical section
  • fig. 3 lower part of the device in top view
  • fig. 4 scraping segment of the device in top view
  • fig. 5 the device with the painting roller and the cleaning device in working position, in a perspective top view.
  • the device consists of exchangeable scraping segments 2 and brush 3 fixed to the handle 1 .
  • the handle 1 is produced of steel rod of oval cross-section.
  • a grip 4 In the upper part of the handle, on its straight or bent part there is placed a grip 4 .
  • the bent tip is ended with quadrangular pivot 5 , in which, on the side there is a seat 6 for the screw 7 which fix the segment.
  • a threaded hole 8 for screw 9 used to fix the brush 3 on the other side of the segment near to the bent area in the handle.
  • the segments 2 have on the inner side arc-shaped surfaces 10 , adjusted to a diameter of the painting roller.
  • the recess 11 is assigned to clean the handle rod, and recess 12 to clean a small roller, frequently used by professional painters.
  • the arc-shaped inner surfaces have on both sides chamfers 13 of the front edges, facilitating guiding of the device and removing of a paint during the roller cleaning process due to decreasing of the friction.
  • the front edges of the recesses 11 and 12 also have the chamfers 14 and 15 .
  • the segment 2 has a seat 16 of quadrangular cross-section, adjusted to shape of a handle pivot. The best vertical bending angle for the seat is from 10° to 20°. It assures proper position of the handle 1 with relation to the segment and facilitates manipulation of the device during the roller cleaning process. From the side, in the middle of the seat 16 , there is a threaded hole 17 connected to the seat, for the screw 7 , which fix the segment to the handle.
  • the segment 2 is an art of a ring, or profitably semi-ring and it is made of plastic or metal.
  • the segment can be fixed to the handle in separable way by means of a simple screw connection, or other known connection solutions.
  • the handle and the segment are connected in separable way.
  • Several exchangeable segments, adjusted to the diameters of painting rollers frequently used by professional painters are included into the set of the device.
  • the scraping segment with inner diameter should be more or less equal to the outer diameter of the stiff part of the roller, where in most cases there is a coating made of textile fibres material which absorbs liquids.
  • a precise cleaning of the roller is performed by a fast, hand made and back-and-forward movements along the roller, as it is shown in fig. 5. It can be done for example in a wash-bowl, under the stream of cold water.
  • the side surfaces of the roller are cleaned by means of the brush 3 , placed on the opposite side of the scraping segment, the handle rod is cleaned by means of putting it in smaller recess 11 of the segment.
  • a brush is used to clean the elements of painters equipment which are hard to reach.
  • the device eliminates usage of warm water during the cleaning process and simultaneously decreases usage of cold water with comparison to the traditional method which is based on manual cleaning by means of squeezing and twisting off the outer, paint absorbing coating under a stream of warm and/or cold water.

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Abstract

The device is used to clean paint rollers after use, with the aid of water. It has a paint scraping segment (2) fixed to a handle (1). The segment (2) takes the form of part of a ring, and its inner surface (10) is arc-shaped. The radius of the arc is adapted to the diameter of a roller. In addition, the surface (10) is chamfered (13) on both sides. The segment (2) is fixed to the handle (1) in a fixed or removable manner, for example by means of a screw. On the outer side of the segment (2) there are further arc-shaped recesses (11 and 12); the radii of these are adapted to the dimensions of painting devices having small oval cross sections. A cleaning brush (3), which is used to clean those elements of painters' equipment that are difficult to reach, is fixed to the handle (1) on the opposite side to that which carries the segment (2).

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The object of the invention is a device to clean painting rollers from a paint. Such rollers are a piece of equipment used to paint different surfaces.
Common devices used by painters are equipped with rotating rollers, whose coating on a stiff construction is made of textile fibres material which absorbs liquids and is similar to woolfur, pure wool or elastic artificial materials similar to sponges.
The roller is used to pick up a suitable quantity of a paint from a container and next to cover with this paint - by means of the roller rotation - surfaces intended to be painted. After painting, not to let the paint to dry out, the rollers are directly cleaned in manual way by means of squeezing and twisting off the outer, paint absorbing coating under a stream of warm water. Due to a direct contact of a person with a paint and frequent application of cold water, the cleaning is unpleasant and toilsome process. Different kinds of open-work or solid plates with convexities are known, e.g. according to the patent application no PL-A-311 199, the plates are assigned to scrap an excessive amount of paint to uniformly distribute a suitable quantity of a paint on the roller before painting process of an intended surface.
Using multiple rubbing of the roller on the scraping plate, it is possible to remove under the pressure only a small quantity of the paint into the container. However it hardly influences on the shortening of the manual cleaning process under the water stream.
Otherwise, a device for cleaning paint rollers comprising a blade member which is secured to a handle such that it lies in a central plane of the handle is known from DE-U-9 300 198, GB-A-2 270 464 , FR-A-2 147 406 and US-A-5 546 625.
The aim of the invention is to design a device which could facilitate the cleaning of the painting rollers from a paint to reach high efficiency of cleaning with limited water waste.
The invention is set out in the appended claims.
The object of the invention is shown as an exemplary model in figures, where: fig. 1 represents the device in a partial, vertical section, fig. 2 - magnified lower part of the device in separated position, in a partial vertical section, fig. 3 - lower part of the device in top view, fig. 4 - scraping segment of the device in top view, fig. 5 - the device with the painting roller and the cleaning device in working position, in a perspective top view.
The device consists of exchangeable scraping segments 2 and brush 3 fixed to the handle 1. The handle 1 is produced of steel rod of oval cross-section. In the upper part of the handle, on its straight or bent part there is placed a grip 4. In the lower part of the handle, the bent tip is ended with quadrangular pivot 5, in which, on the side there is a seat 6 for the screw 7 which fix the segment. There is a threaded hole 8 for screw 9 used to fix the brush 3 on the other side of the segment near to the bent area in the handle.
The segments 2 have on the inner side arc-shaped surfaces 10, adjusted to a diameter of the painting roller.
Additionally on the outer side, they have arc- shaped recesses 11 and 12 adjusted to clean the smaller elements with oval cross-section of the painting devices.
Particularly, the recess 11 is assigned to clean the handle rod, and recess 12 to clean a small roller, frequently used by professional painters.
The arc-shaped inner surfaces have on both sides chamfers 13 of the front edges, facilitating guiding of the device and removing of a paint during the roller cleaning process due to decreasing of the friction. The front edges of the recesses 11 and 12 also have the chamfers 14 and 15. In the middle part, the segment 2 has a seat 16 of quadrangular cross-section, adjusted to shape of a handle pivot. The best vertical bending angle for the seat is from 10° to 20°. It assures proper position of the handle 1 with relation to the segment and facilitates manipulation of the device during the roller cleaning process. From the side, in the middle of the seat 16, there is a threaded hole 17 connected to the seat, for the screw 7, which fix the segment to the handle. The segment 2 is an art of a ring, or profitably semi-ring and it is made of plastic or metal.
The segment can be fixed to the handle in separable way by means of a simple screw connection, or other known connection solutions.
In extreme case, it can be fixed in stiff way.
In the presented example the handle and the segment are connected in separable way. Several exchangeable segments, adjusted to the diameters of painting rollers frequently used by professional painters are included into the set of the device.
In order to obtain high efficiency of the roller cleaning, the scraping segment with inner diameter should be more or less equal to the outer diameter of the stiff part of the roller, where in most cases there is a coating made of textile fibres material which absorbs liquids.
Holding the grip of the device with painting roller in one hand, placing the roller on scraping plate in a container with paint and holding the grip 4 in the other hand, the segment of the device is put on a soft coating of the roller.
Performing the plane movements along the roller, successively on its entire circumference and simultaneously exerting the pressure, the notable amount of paint is pulled down from the front surfaces by means of the segment, back into a container. Next, a precise cleaning of the roller is performed by a fast, hand made and back-and-forward movements along the roller, as it is shown in fig. 5. It can be done for example in a wash-bowl, under the stream of cold water. The side surfaces of the roller are cleaned by means of the brush 3, placed on the opposite side of the scraping segment, the handle rod is cleaned by means of putting it in smaller recess 11 of the segment. Usually, a brush is used to clean the elements of painters equipment which are hard to reach.
The device, according to the invention, eliminates usage of warm water during the cleaning process and simultaneously decreases usage of cold water with comparison to the traditional method which is based on manual cleaning by means of squeezing and twisting off the outer, paint absorbing coating under a stream of warm and/or cold water.

Claims (4)

  1. A device for cleaning paint rollers from a paint, having a scraping segment (2) and a handle (1) fixed to said segment (2), wherein said segment (2) has an arc-shaped recess (10) on the inner side of said segment (2), which inner side is in contact with a roller of a paint roller when the paint roller is cleaned, characterized in that the scraping segment (2) is located in a plane lateral with respect to the longitudinal axis of the handle (1).
  2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the scraping segment (2) is fixed to the handle (1) permanently or in a separable way and has arc-shaped recesses (11, 12) on the outer side of said segment (2) adjusted to the cleaning of elements of a paint roller having smaller oval cross-sections.
  3. The device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a cleaning brush (3) is fixed to the handle (1) at the opposite side with respect to the location of the arc-shaped recess (10) on the inner side of the scraping segment (2).
  4. The device according to claim 1, wherein a front edge of the arc-shaped recess (10) has chamfers (13) from both sides.
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PL97319675A PL183741B1 (en) 1997-04-25 1997-04-25 Device for cleaning paint application rollers
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PCT/PL1997/000023 WO1998049019A1 (en) 1997-04-25 1997-09-29 Device for cleaning paint rollers

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