Patent Application
20180242734
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The disclosure and prior art relates to storage devices and more particularly pertains to a new storage device for storing a plurality of paint rollers.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a plurality of paint rollers. Each of the paint rollers has a handle and a roller that is rotatably coupled to the handle. The roller corresponding to each of the paint rollers comprises a plurality of wires. A storage rack is provided and the storage rack is selectively coupled to a support surface. The storage rack has a plurality of apertures. The roller corresponding to each of the paint rollers is removably inserted through an associated one of the apertures to store each of the paint rollers. The storage rack inhibits the wires corresponding to each of the paint rollers from becoming deformed during storage.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A storage rack 20 is provided and the storage rack 20 is selectively coupled to a support surface 22. The support surface 22 may be an internal wall in a vehicle, a room or any other vertical support surface. The storage rack 20 has a plurality of apertures 24. The roller 16 corresponding to each of the paint rollers 12 is removably inserted through an associated one of the apertures 24 to store each of the paint rollers 12. Moreover, the storage rack 20 inhibits the wires 18 corresponding to each of the paint rollers 12 from becoming deformed during storage.
The storage rack 20 comprises a first panel 26 that has a first surface 28, a second surface 30 and a perimeter edge 32 extending therebetween. The perimeter edge 32 has a top side 34, a bottom side 36 and a back side 38. The first panel 26 is elongated between the top side 34 and the bottom side 36 and the plurality of apertures 24 includes a set of first apertures 40. Each of the first apertures 40 extends through the first surface 28 and the second surface 30. Moreover, the first apertures 40 are spaced apart from each other and are distributed between the top side 34 and the bottom side 36.
A second panel 42 is provided that has a primary surface 44, a secondary surface 46 and a peripheral edge 48 extending therebetween. The peripheral edge 48 has an upper side 50, a lower side 52 and a rear side 54. The second panel 42 is elongated between the upper side 50 and the lower side 52 and the plurality of apertures 24 includes a set of second apertures 56. Each of the second apertures 56 extends through the primary surface 44 and the secondary surface 46. Moreover, the second apertures 56 are spaced apart from each other and are distributed between the upper side 50 and the lower side 52.
A plurality of spacers 58 is provided and each of the spacers 58 is coupled between the second surface 30 of the first panel 26 and the secondary surface 46 of the second panel 42. Thus, the first panel 26 is spaced from the second panel 42. Each of the first apertures 40 is aligned with an associated one of the second apertures 56. The spacers 58 are spaced apart from each other and are vertically distributed on the first panel 26 and the second panel 42.
Each of the spacers 58 is aligned with the back side 38 of the first panel 26 and the rear side 54 of the second panel 42. Moreover, each of the spacers 58 has a rearward surface 60 and the rearward surface 60 is selectively attached to the support surface 22. Each of the spacers 58 is attached to the support surface 22 with a plurality of fasteners or the like. The storage rack 20 is vertically oriented on the support surface 22. The roller 16 corresponding to each of the paint rollers 12 is removably inserted through a corresponding pair of the first 40 and second 56 apertures. In this way the plurality of paint rollers 12 is stored and organized.
In use, the spacers 58 are attached to the support surface 22 having the storage rack 20 being vertically oriented on the support surface 22. The roller 16 corresponding to each of the paint rollers 12 is selectively extended through the associated pair of first 40 and second 56 apertures. In this way each of the paint rollers 12 is stored in the storage rack 20. Additionally, the storage rack 20 inhibits the wires 18 corresponding to each of the paint rollers 12 from being deformed during storage. Each of the paint rollers 12 is selectively removed from the storage rack 20 for use during painting.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, system and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
