Patent ID: 7281291

Claim:
A frame for a paint roller tool, wherein the frame comprises: a handle; a first frame member including a first shaft portion, extending in a first direction to an end of the first shaft portion, and a first handle attachment portion extending within the handle; and a second frame member including a second shaft portion, extending in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, to an end of the second shaft portion, and a second handle attachment portion extending into a hole within the handle beside the first handle attachment portion, wherein the second frame member is rigidly attached to the first frame member, wherein the first and second shaft portions are separated from one another through a direction of separation, perpendicular to the first and second directions through a distance sufficient to allow rollers rotating on the first and second shaft portions to extend adjacent one another, with a distal end of a roller rotating on the first shaft portion being aligned in the first direction with an outer edge of a cylindrical peripheral surface of a roller rotating on the second shaft portion.