US1754366A

US1754366A - Paintbrush holder

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Publication number: US1754366A
Application number: US263192A
Authority: US
Inventors: Lissy William
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1928-03-20
Filing date: 1928-03-20
Publication date: 1930-04-15
Anticipated expiration: 1947-04-15

Description

April 15, 1930. w. LlssY 1,754,366

PAINTBRUSH HOLDER v Filed March 20, 1928 A ttor ne y I ,7 v W/Y/fd/T) [J55] Inventor I Patented Apr. 15, 1 936 UNITED STATES WILLIAM LISSY, OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON PAINTBBUSH HOLDER Application filed March 20, 1928. Serial No. 263,192.

My present invention relates to improvements in paint brush holders designed par ticularly for use with a paint bucket. By means of the brush holder of my invention,

the brush may be attached in convenient place at the upper edge of the paint bucket in order that the brush may be accessible at all times to the painter, thus saving time and labor during the painting operations. The 1 holder is detachably fastened to the bucket so that the brush may be placed in the holder or secured thereon for storage purposes and will be freely accessible whenever desired by the painter.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts as will hereinafterbe more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, I have il- 2 lustrated one, complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention wherein the parts are combined and arranged according to the best mode I have so far devised for the practical application of the principles of my 1 invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a bucket. of paint with the holder and brush of my invention supported on the bucket;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail side view showing the brush supported upon the holder;

Fig. 3 is a view showing one-half of the holder in elevation; and

Fig. 4 is a side view of the holder.

Fig. 5 is a vertical cross section of Fig. 4 on line 5--5 showing the manner of retaining the end of the spring 10 in position on thejaw 3.

In order that the general assembly and relation of parts may readily be understood, I have shown in Fig. 1 a paint bucket B having the bail or handle H as usual. The brush -1 is provided with a handle 2 as usual and the brush holder is fashioned with a pair of clamping jaws 3 and 4C. These jaws are pref? erably fashioned of metal and are provided 1 with handles 5 and 6 so that they may be pressed together for opening and closing the jaws. To strengthen the jaws, they are provided with side flanges as 7 and between the aws a coil spring 8 is interposed and retained in position by means of lugs as 9 that are struck from the body of one of the jaws and bent over the coil spring for retaining devices.

The ends 10 and 11 of the spring are attached to the respective jaws 3 and 1 and these ends pass through openings in the flanges 7 and are secured in perforated lugs 12 that are struck from the body of the jaws for this purpose. The ends 10 and 11 of the I spring are thus rigidly anchored to the respective jaws and the spring tends to normally bring the jaws into closed position so that the holder may be slipped over the edge of the bucket and retained thereon as indicated in Fig. 1. The handles 5 and 6 of course are used to manipulate the jaws in clasping or unclasping them from the bucket.

One of the jaws as 5 is provided with a supporting hook or prong 13 on which the handle 2 of the brush is supported by means 7o of the hole 14: in the brush handle. The prong 13 is provided with an anchoring hook 13 which passes through a pair of spaced

holes

15 and 16 in the handle 5 and by this means the anchoring hook is rigidly secured to the handle with the prong 13 projecting therefrom as indicated in Fig. 2. It will be apparent that the brush may readily be supported on or removed from the prong 13 and as seen in Fig. 1 it is supported above the level of the liquid paint in the bucket. Thus the brush may be retained in convenient position for use by the painter when he is changing position or changing the ladder or scaffold or during other work about the painting operations.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a paint brush holder the combination 9 of a pair of flat metal plates forming relatively movable jaws, edge flanges on said plates, a coiled spring interposed between the jaws and'forming a hinge, said spring having its respective ends anchored in the flanges of the opposite jaws, vertically spaced retaining lugs integral with one of the plates for engagement with the coiled spring, and a brush-supporting prong on one of said 10 plates.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WILLIAM LISSY.