Abstract: A manipulatable and detachable container clamp adapted to engage an open paint container. The clamp has an elongated body formed into a manual gripping handle and a platform support. A flared brush-cleaning and brush-support platform is fixed to the platform support so as to project away from the handle. A container-engaging clamping bracket having a pair of spaced fingers is fixed to the body with each finger facing opposite sides of the container sidewall when the bracket is seated upon the upper edge of the container so that the platform projects into the container. A manually-adjustable screw is coupled to the bracket for clamping the bracket tightly upon any container engaged by the bracket. One of the bracket fingers is preferably seated in a paint-container reinforcing groove which is commonplace in many paint containers. This seating arrangement enables the clamp to be fixedly secured to the paint container.

Abstract: A detachable handle adapted to engage a container, such as a paint can, formed with a continuous sidewall which terminates in a set of top and bottom peripheral edges separated one from the other by the sidewall. The handle comprises a generally C-shaped resilient body adapted for manual holding and defining an interior generally concave surface, a pair of edge engaging fingers fixed to the interior surface of the C-shaped body with each finger separated from the other so that both container edges can be engaged by the two fingers, and an elongated camming lever having a first end pivotally attached to the interior surface of the C-shaped body, and with an opposite end loosely positioned adjacent a different interior surface of the C-shaped body. The application of a manual gripping force between the camming lever and the curved body separates the edge engaging fingers one from the other by increasing their separation bite to release a container or alternatively to engage a container.

Abstract: A pocket-size coin holder in which the coin is principally used as a golf ball marker. The holder has a relatively small metallic body punched from sheet metal. A shallow coin-retaining cup is stamp-formed at a central portion of the body. A coin-retaining bridging pin, which is capable of flexing laterally, extends across the mouth of the cup so as to bisect the area defined by the mouth. The opposite ends of the pin are firmly anchored to the body. The cup is preferably sized to receive a dime coin which is manually inserted into the cup beneath the coin-retaining pin.

Abstract: A piercing tool for opening a metal container in which the tool has an elongated body which supports generally at one end of the body a curved piercing blade and a cooperating hook for engaging the container with the hook being disposed on the concave side of the blade. A modification comprising an elongated bar for opening additionally a container having a lid including a scored flap closure which is to be displaced into the interior of the container by a movable tab which is fixed by an intermediate anchor adjacent the flap closure with the tab including a handle portion located on one side of the tab anchor and adapted to be elevated relative the container lid and with the tab also including a closure depressing portion located on the other side of the tab anchor adjacent the flap closure.

Abstract: A tool for manipulating beverage bottle closures in which a prior art recapper cup for applying press-fit bottle caps is modified to include an elongated slot to engage thereby a lift tab for opening a flap closure for a tab-top container. The recapper cup is further modified to include a set of four ribs so that screw-type bottle caps can also be operated on by the recapper cup.