Patent ID: 7118078

Claim:
A paintbrush support apparatus adapted to use in a paint container, the paintbrush support apparatus comprising: a rotatable disk adapted to accommodate paintbrush placed thereon, the rotatable disk having a raised portion that begins at an edge of the disk and extends radially toward the center of the disk where the raised portion diminishes in height to zero to thereby establish a helical incline plane that rises over 360 degrees from a base of the raised portion to a top of the raised portion; the disk having at its edge an annular helical thread configuration that cooperates with a mating helical thread structure positioned adjacent to an inner surface of a paint container; rotation of the disk causes the disk to move to varying levels from a top of the mating helical thread structure to a bottom of the mating helical thread structure; the mating helical thread structure is provided with a paintbrush support component removably secured thereto, the paintbrush support component is configured to accommodate a portion of a paintbrush that is supported by the disk and extends above the top of the mating helical thread structure, the paintbrush support apparatus is provided with at least two openings, at least one of the openings adapted to receive an elongated element such that with the element vertically positioned in the opening, whereby rotation of the element causes the disk to rotate and thereby vary the disk level from a top of the mating helical thread structure to a bottom of the mating helical thread structure; the paintbrush support apparatus further includes a crescent shaped brush bristle wiper that is adapted to be securely attached to an upper rim of the mating helical thread structure such that the convex curvature of the crescent shaped brush bristle wiper matches an external curvature of the upper rim, the crescent shaped bristle wiper having a concave curvature that provides a brush bristle wiper surface.