Patent ID: 7909528
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: B43K

Abstract:
1. A coating instrument comprising: a shaft having opposite front and rear ends; a coating tip adjacent to the front end of the shaft; a liquid reservoir contained within the shaft, wherein the liquid reservoir is in communication with the coating tip; a support securable to the shaft and spaced from the coating tip whereby the support does not cover either of the ends of the shaft when the support is secured to the shaft, the support being movable with respect to the shaft from a non-extended position to an extended position in which the support projects outward away from the shaft for contact with a surface on which the instrument is placed thereby to support the shaft in a position in which a portion of the shaft is spaced away from the surface in a substantially downward position wherein the shaft slopes down toward the coating tip; and an advertising image on the support facing outward away from the shaft when the support is in said non-extended position.