Patent ID: 7841796

Claim:
A hand-held trim painting tool, comprising: (a) a cylindrical body including a removable head with a nozzle at one end of the body and a cap at the other end of the body; (b) a paint reservoir within the cylindrical body adapted to receive and store paint; (c) an external handle slidably mounted in the cap connected to a biased plunger within the reservoir to draw paint into the reservoir through the nozzle and to pressurize the paint within the reservoir; (d) a valve permitting paint to be dispensed from the paint reservoir to the nozzle; (e) a trigger opening and closing the valve, wherein the trigger pivots upon the cylindrical body and wherein the trigger further comprises at least one arm sliding into and out of the body acting upon the valve to incrementally open the valve as the arm slides further into the body and the dispensing rate adjuster adjusts the distance in which the arm slides into the body to regulate the rate at which paint is dispensed from the valve to the applicator; (f) an applicator attached to the head for receiving and dispensing paint from the reservoir through the nozzle; and (h) a dispensing rate adjuster to regulate the rate at which paint is dispensed from the valve to the applicator.