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 Title: |
US5544668:
Apparatus for treating work objects
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Dollar, Arthur J.; Fresno, CA 93720
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1996-08-13
/ 1994-03-21
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| Application Number: |
US1994000215802
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
B44D 3/00;
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IPC-7:
B08B 3/02;
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| ECLA Code: |
B44D3/00D; B44D3/00D;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
134/104.2;
134/149;
134/153;
134/900;
Original:
134/104.2;
134/149;
134/153;
134/900;
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| Field of Search: |
134/104.2,135,147,149,153,900,138
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| Priority Number: |
| 1994-03-21 |
US1994000215802 |
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| Abstract: |
An apparatus for treating work objects, the apparatus having a housing with an interior dimensioned to receive the work object therewithin; a source of fluid under pressure for treating the work object; and an assembly for interconnecting the source and the interior of the housing for release of the fluid under pressure from the source into the interior and against the work object substantially along a predetermined axis to treat the work object.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Worrel & Worrel ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Stinson, Frankie L.;
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None
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First Claim:
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Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:
1. An apparatus for cleaning residual substances from the sleeve of a paint roller which has a handle having a mount borne for rotational movement substantially about a longitudinal axis and mounting said sleeve thereon for rotation with the mount substantially about said longitudinal axis, the apparatus comprising:
- A. a substantially cylindrical housing, having upper and lower end portions, a substantially cylindrical passage of predetermined diameter extending through the housing along a longitudinal axis of reference and the upper and lower end portions thereof through annular openings of predetermined diameter, dimensioned substantially fully to receive the mount and sleeve of the paint roller therewithin in a predetermined cleaning position substantially concentric to said passage of the housing;
- B. an annular shield mounted on the upper end portion of the housing overhanging the opening thereof having a concave surface substantially facing said cleaning position and extending to an annulus bounding a substantially circular entrance opening communicating with said cleaning position in substantially axial alignment with said longitudinal axis of reference;
- C. a conduit mounted on the upper end portion of the housing communicating with the cleaning position thereof through a plurality of fluid ports along substantially parallel axes substantially right-angularly related to and offset relative to said longitudinal axis of reference;
- D. a valve assembly, adapted for connection to a source of fluid under pressure, mounted on said conduit and operable to control the volume of fluid passing from the source of fluid under pressure through said conduit and through said plurality of fluid ports; and
- E. a sealing assembly mounted on the upper end portion of the housing defining a passage extending through said shield and inwardly of the upper end portion of the housing along a course substantially parallel to said longitudinal axis of reference to a terminus engageable by said handle of the paint roller, when the mount and sleeve thereof are received in said cleaning position, to support the paint roller in said cleaning position and including a plurality of bristles interlaced in said passage substantially to seal the passage against release of fluid therethrough whereby a paint roller, disposed in said cleaning position with the handle thereof in said sealing assembly has said residual substances removed therefrom by fluid under pressure released by the valve assembly through said fluid ports against the sleeve to rotate the mount of the paint roller about said longitudinal axis thereof so as to remove said residual substances by the flushing action of said fluid under pressure and by centrifugal force in rotation of the mount substantially about said longitudinal axis.
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