Patent ID: 6763937
Filing Date: 2004-07-20
Classification: B44D

Abstract:
A paint box with replaceable color pans, including cooperating holding elements provided on the bottom of the paint box and on the side of the color pans, which holding elements serve to removably retain the color pans in the paint box in an aligned position, and further including a holding rail at the bottom of the paint box, which rail engages in a downwardly open groove formed on the underside of a protruding rim of the color pans, said rail forming a swivel bearing with a swivel axis parallel to the box bottom, characterized in that the groove has a cross section widening in downward direction and the color pans rest loosely on the holding rail, that on the side of the holding rail close to the color pans provision is made for the holding elements extending up from the box bottom and enabling the individual color pans to be securely fixed by frictional engagement with the box bottom, that provision is made for a respective push-button on the protruding rim of the color pans on the side of the holding rail remote from the color pans and at a distance therefrom, and that by pressing down the push-button of a color pan this particular color pan is adapted to be swiveled about the swivel axis and disengageable from the holding elements.