Patent ID: 7565985

Claim:
A disposable liner for use in a paint bucket that includes a closed bottom and a side wall extending to a top rim thereof, a continuous circumferential peripheral bucket gutter formed integrally with and exteriorly of the side wall at a location below the top rim and including a gutter floor, an outer wall and a plurality of angularly spaced bucket drain notches through the side wall extending from the top rim toward the gutter floor, said liner comprising: A) a molded liner container having a closed bottom and a side wall and adapted to be inserted into the bucket container for support thereby for receiving paint therein, B) an integrally molded continuous circumferential peripheral liner gutter including a side wall extension that forms a first inverted channel for overlying the bucket side wall above the bucket gutter floor, an outer inverted channel for overlying the bucket outer wall and an intermediate floor for overlying the bucket gutter floor, and C) at least one integrally molded liner drain notch extending through said first inverted channel between a liner top rim and a liner gutter floor, said at least one liner drain notch being adapted to conform to and to be in register with one of the at least one bucket drain notches whereby said liner drains paint that accumulates in said liner gutter through said at least one liner notch into said liner container and said liner being adapted to isolate the paint therein from surfaces of the paint bucket.