THE SPINNER

NETTOYEUR CENTRIFUGE DE PINCEAUX ET ROULEAUX DE PEINTRE

English Abstract

"In a tool for removing liquid from paint brushes and rollers, it is known to
have a plunger with
a tight fitting spring at one end and a cylindrcal cone shape groove in the
other end.The plunger
and spring are mounted as a floating self -centering device within a tube,
which at one end has a
stopper shoulder and a drill attachment and at the opposite end is open with
threads on the nutter
side of the tube, this tube section of the inventions is known as the arbour.
Mounted inside the
threaded end of the arbour tube is a collet, into which a paint brush would be
placed, the collet is
used to secure a paint brush into place within the invention. Mounted
externally round the
arbour tube is another tube which is held in position at the bottom by the
shoulder of the arbour
tube and at the opposit end with a pinching washer which is positioned below
the threads at the
top of the arbour tube. Mounted onto the threaded end of the arbour tube is a
nut. The nut is
open at both ends and is shaped to allow the collet to fit snuggly within the
nut so as, when
tightened, to lock the collet into position inside the threaded end of the
arbour tube."

Claims

CLAIMS
"The embodiment of the invention in which an exclusive properly or privilege
is claimed are
defined as follows:"
1. A hand drill operable tool for removing liquids from paint brushes and
rollers, comprising of
a arbour bearing with an internal self centering device, an external drive
shaft and an external
locking mechanism for securing a paint brush handle or paint rollers.
2. A tool as defined in claim 1, in which an arbour bearing is a tube
positioned around another
tube and which rests upon the shoulder edge of said internal tube.
3. A tool as defined in claim 1 or claim 2, in which the internal tube of the
arbour bearing is
closed at one end by an external drive shaft and is open at the other end with
external threading
around the top section the tube.
4. A tool as defined in claim 1, in which the arbour bearing assembly contains
a free floating
internal self centering device.
5. A tool as defined in claim 1, in which an external locking mechanism,
comprising of a collet
and a locking nut, where the collet is inserted into the threaded section of
the arbour bearing and
the locking nut is placed over top of the collet and tightened onto the
threads of the arbour
bearing which, when tightened will secure the handle of the paint brush into
position within the
internal tube of the arbour bearing.

Description

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SPECIFICATION
"This invention relates to a drill operated apparatus for removing liquid from
paint brushes and
rollers"
"It is common in brush spinners to cause tremendous frustration and pain while
attempting to
lock a paint brush into the jaws of a conventional paintbrush spinner. This is
because, while the
conventional paintbrush spinners do hold the brush into place, the tension in
the clamping jaws
is far too high causing the user to try and force the brush into the clamping
jaws with all of their
strength. This forcing action tends to put the spinner into an awkward
position causing the user
to brace the spinner against their hip, leg or up against some other
supporting structure which
tends to position the spinner o~ balance and thus darting into an
unpredictable direction. This
ussually results in the user scraping, cutting, getting their fingers cut in
clamping jaws or doing
damage to a floor or wall. They are, moreover, unsatisfactory for general and
in many cases
proffesional use because of the high tension within the clamping jaws."
"We have found that these disadvantages may be overcome by using a new type of
clamping
device which uses a cylinder with threading on one end and on the other end a
shoulder edge
with a drill mountable shaft which seals the bottom end of the cylinder.
Within this cylinder is a
free floating spring with a small plastic plunger mounted into one end of the
spring. The plunger
has a concave cone shaped groove in the top end and a short solid cylindrical
end mounted into
the spring. The spring and plunger act as a self centering device 'Kith
cushioning action so that
the paint brush handle will stay stable within the tube. In the threaded end
of the tube is placed a
collet, which is a small plastic four fingered tubular gripping device with
the larger top end
being a peakless cone shape with two perpendicular bisecting cuta through the
cone shape and
the lower end being a short tubular extention which, when inserted into the
threaded end of the
tube, and the fingers are compressed together, grip the handle of the paint
brush tightly without
damaging the paint brush handle. Free floating round the first tube is a
second tube, which is
used as a hand-held stabilizing tube for the invention and is held into place
with a pinching
washer at the top end and the shoulder edge of the first tube. Ma~unted onto
the threaded end of

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the tube is a tightening nut, used to compress the fingers of the collet round
the handle of a paint
brush".
"This device, because of the ease in which a paint brush is no~v mounted and
fastened and that
it is mechanically operated by any household drill, is now more efficient,
less dangerous and
superior to its predecessor."
"In drawings which illustrate embodiments of the invention, Figure 1 is a
cross sectiorE of the
complete assembly of the invention. Figure 2 is the internal arbour tube,
which is a tube with a
shoulder edge with internal threading at one end and external threading at the
other end. Figure 3
is the self centering portion of the invention known as the plunger and
spring. These parts when
placed within the internal tube of the arbour tube keep the handle of the
paint brush centered and
balanced within said tube. Figure 4 shows the external tube of the arbour
bearing,which: is a free
floating tube that is placed over the internal arbour tube and is held into
position by the shoulder
edge of the internal arbour tube at one end and by a pinching washer at the
other end. The
combination of the two arbour tubes acts as a rotational stabalizing bearing
for the invention.
Figure S shows the eollet which when compressed near the top, by the locking
nut, is used as the
lacking device in the invention. The collet is mounted inside the threaded end
of the arbour tube.
Figure 6 is the locking nut which compresses the callet and secures the paint
brush han<~le into
place. Figure '7 is the drive shaft which is mounted into the shoulder edge
end of the arbour tube.
This shaft is the section of the invention which plugs the bottom end of the
tube and mounts the
invention to its source of momentum, a power drill, This invention, when a
paint roller is pushed
onto the end of the locking nut, can be used as a roller spinner, affording
the same stability and
ease of use as when used as a paint brush spinner.

Representative Drawing