Patent ID: 7748524

Claim:
In combination with a paint brush and a hazardous vapor emitting liquid, a housing for storing said hazardous vapor emitting liquid, cleaning said paint brush and preventing a discharge of said hazardous liquid and vapor into the environment, said housing having an open top portion, a bottom wall and vertical front, side and rear walls, said vertical walls having upper sealing edges lying in a common horizontal plane; a cover in sealing relationship with said sealing edges of said housing, said cover having an aperture for extending a handle of said paint brush outwardly into the exterior of said housing; a thick resilient compressible gasket between said cover and said upper edges of said vertical walls of said housing, said gasket extending across said cover and having an aperture aligned with said aperture of said cover in tight fitting sealing relationship with said handle for concurrently suspending said brush downwardly into said housing, sealing said cover in said housing and sealing said handle in said cover to prevent loss of said vapor emitting fluid and said hazardous vapor from said housing; and a means for fixing said cover to said housing.