Patent ID: 8713744

Claim:
A liquid applicator comprising: a frame including an elongated handle that presents opposite handle margins and extends in a longitudinal direction between the margins, said frame further including a pair of endmost connectors integrally formed with the handle, each of said connectors being hingedly coupled to respective ones of the handle margins; and a flexible applicator pad that presents opposite applicator pad ends, said flexible applicator pad presenting an application face and an opposite connection face, with the faces extending between the applicator pad ends, said connectors each presenting a connector face, said connectors being coupled to the flexible applicator pad adjacent corresponding applicator pad ends, with the connector faces being in face-to-face engagement with the connection face of the applicator pad, each of said connectors extending from a respective one of the handle margins toward the other connector to present a connector end, with the flexible applicator pad presenting a central section thereof that is detached from the frame, said handle presenting a region intermediate the handle margins that is flexible and spaced from the applicator pad to permit relative shifting of the handle margins, with the frame and flexible applicator pad thereby being shiftable into and out of a relaxed applicator condition as the handle margins are moved away from and toward each other.