Patent ID: 7631818

Claim:
A portable direct-circuit sprayer comprising: a water chamber defining a component chamber having an interior therein, and with the water chamber including two, longitudinal, laterally spaced shoulders in the interior of the component chamber; a platform including a rear edge, a front edge, and two, laterally spaced, longitudinal edges extending between the rear edge and the front edge, with the two, laterally spaced, longitudinal edges longitudinally slideable on the two, longitudinal, laterally spaced shoulders with the platform supported on and between the two, longitudinal, laterally spaced shoulders and in the interior of the component chamber; a pump installed on the platform in the interior of the component chamber, with the platform being intermediate the two, longitudinal, laterally spaced shoulders and the pump; and a control panel separately formed from the platform, with the control panel installed on the water chamber, with the control panel abutting with the platform and enclosing the platform in the component chamber with the platform sandwiched in the component chamber by the control panel and being prevented from moving outwardly of the interior of the component chamber due to abutment against the two, longitudinal, laterally spaced shoulders, wherein the water chamber defines two recesses in a front surface parallel to the two longitudinal, laterally spaced shoulders, wherein the platform comprises two tabs formed on and laterally outwardly of the two, laterally spaced, longitudinal edges and including the front edge, with the two tabs longitudinally slideable in the two recesses, with the two tabs enclosed in the two recesses by the control panel with the front edge of the two tabs abutting with the control panel laterally outwardly of the front edge of the platform.