Patent ID: 8100347

Claim:
A paint feeding device comprising: a main body including an open end; a rinsing liquid feeding portion that feeds a rinsing liquid into the paint feeding device and an air feeding portion that feeds air into the paint feeding device, the rinsing liquid feeding portion and the air feeding portion disposed at an opposite end to the open end, and the rinsing liquid feeding portion and the air feeding portion both being connected to the paint feeding device via a rinsing liquid feeding passage; a paint feeding passage connected with multiple paint feeding portions that feed the paint into the paint feeding device, the paint feeding passage disposed between the open end and the opposite end, and entirely within the main body; and a valve fluidly connecting the paint feeding passage and the rinsing liquid feeding passage, the valve being disposed within the main body between the paint feeding passage and the rinsing liquid feeding passage; wherein the rinsing liquid feeding passage is a different member from the paint feeding passage, wherein a volume of the rinsing liquid feeding passage is set in response to a feeding capacity of the rinsing liquid of the rinsing liquid feeding portion, and wherein the paint is fed to the paint feeding passage under the pressure of the paint feeding portions such that the air feeding portion is used only when rinsing the paint feeding passage, and wherein the air fed from the air feeding portion is mixed into the rinsing liquid fed from the rinsing liquid feeding portion in the rinsing liquid feeding passage.