Patent ID: 6530470
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: B44D

Abstract:
An elongate box made to be supported longitudinally and substantially horizontally for temporarily storing a paint-applying roller wet with paint, comprising mutually opposite, lower and upper, elongate, longitudinal walls; mutually opposite, upstanding, longitudinal side walls; and mutually opposite, upstanding end walls; said walls defining therebetween interior space for receiving, longitudinally, a paint-applying roller mounted on a handle-provided, paint applicator and being wet with paint; an opening in one of the upstanding walls of the box adapted for receiving and passing therethrough a portion of the roller-mounting, handle-provided paint applicator when the paint-applying roller is received in the interior space, so the handle of the applicator will be external to the box, said opening being larger than the portion of the roller-mounting, handle-provided paint applicator which passes therethrough when the paint-applying roller is received in the interior space; solvent absorbing material positioned in the box to receive and hold solvent therein and release solvent vapors into the box to help prevent drying of the paint on the roller, said solvent absorbing material being deformable and positioned at least in the opening and adapted to close the opening and to deform around the portion of the roller-mounting, handle-provided paint applicator when passing therethrough.