Patent ID: 7673770
Filing Date: 2010-03-09
Classification: A45F,B65D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A gripping sleeve for enhancing a user's grasp of the handles and handholds of various tools and implements, and in particular, paint cans, said gripping sleeve comprising: an elongated flexible hollow cylindrical sleeve having a first end, second end, an interior cylindrical wall surface, and exterior cylindrical wall surface; and a lengthwise slit extending from said first end to said second end, penetrating through said exterior wall surface to said interior wall surface, said lengthwise slit defining opposing planar slit side walls in abutting yet separable relationship for receipt within said flexible hollow cylindrical sleeves of handles and handholds of said various tools and implements, said lengthwise slit is parallel to an elongate axis of said hollow cylindrical sleeve, said lengthwise slit being non-radial in relationship to said axis of said hollow, cylindrical sleeve.