Patent ID: 7207437

Claim:
An air tight paint brush jacket of a sleeve and boot which seals a wet paint brush in its wet condition, the brush having an upright handle, shoulder portion, ferrule portion and downwardly extending bristles portion enclosed within the jacket, comprising: the sleeve and boot made of elastomeric sheaths, said brush sleeve providing an inverted U-shaped body having an upwardly extending neck with a top opening extending from a shoulders section, which continues downwardly to a ferrule section having front and rear walls, which extends downwardly to a bristles section having front and rear walls forming a bottom brush opening, said neck at its opening frictionally and rigidly engages the sleeve to the brush handle in an air tight seal, said shoulders section being tightly structured firmly engages the brush shoulders portion, said ferrule section front and rear walls being tightly structured firmly engages the brush ferrule portion, said bristles section front and rear walls being structurally expanded loosely contains the unpressured brush bristles portion and extends downwardly below the bristles portion forming a bottom wide open area, said boot hingedly attached to the sleeve and structured to securely engage the bristles section and enclose the bottom open area and sleeve in an air tight seal.