Patent ID: 7036182
Filing Date: 2006-05-02
Classification: B44D

Abstract:
1. A plurality of paint roller grids, each of said grids comprising a wiping surface adapted to be supported in a container for wiping a roller cover against the wiping surface, a frame member surrounding said wiping surface, said frame member having upper and lower edges and opposite side edges, and a plurality of spaced apart laterally outwardly protruding tabs along at least one of said side edges engageable with the laterally outwardly protruding tabs along an adjacent side edge of another such grid for connecting two such grids together along respective side edges to form a paint roller grid assembly comprising two such grids, said tabs having enlarged outer end portions that are adapted to overlap the enlarged outer end portions of the tabs of another such grid for connecting two such grids together along their respective side edges, the enlarged outer end portions of said tabs having laterally inwardly facing shoulders sized to engage the laterally inwardly facing shoulders of the respective tabs of another such grid for connecting two such grids together along their respective side edges.