Abstract: A paint applicator cleaning device having a drive shaft; a hub in communication with the drive shaft having: an external screw thread, a coaxial socket opening into the spigot and an external abutment positioned between the drive shaft and the spigot; a paint-brush-handle tip locator having: a socket at one end adapted to receive a paint-brush-handle tip and a stem at its other end received in the socket; a spring housed in the socket in the hub for urging the tip locator outwards of the socket; a paint-brush shank holder having: a tubular portion with an internal thread complementary to the external screw thread of the hub, a plain bore for centering the socket of the tip locator, a pair of tangs and a pair of jaws at the distal ends of the tangs for gripping the paint brush shank; and a sleeve sized to surround the tubular portion.

Abstract: A device for cleaning a paint brush B has a shaft 1 is fast in a hub 2 moulded around the shaft. Opposite from the shaft, the hub has a spigot 3 with an external screw thread 4 and a socket 5 having bore 6 opening at the end of the spigot with a counter-bore 7. A step 8 is provided at the inner end of the counter bore. At a larger diameter portion 9 of the hub, it has a small collar 10, providing at an end face 11 an abutment 12. Behind the collar is a circumferential groove 14. A paint brush tip locator 21 is partially housed in the socket 5. It has an inner stem 22, which has a bore 23 with a bottom 24 forming an abutment for a spring 25. The stem 22 is a clearance size in the bore 6. Outwards of the stem is an external collar 26, which is a clearance size in the counter-bore 7. Within the stem, outwards of the bottom 24, the tip locator has a series of step 28 in a socket 29 opening at the outer end of the locator and sized to receive a paint brush handle tip.

Abstract: An implement (10) for supporting selectively each of at least two roller sleeves of different internal diameters for rotation about their axes comprises an elongate support (11) adapted to extend through each sleeve and carrying two supports (15, 21) for supporting the smaller-diameter sleeve (20) adjacent its ends, a mount (16) for supporting one end of the larger-diameter sleeve and adapter means (30) engageable with a support (21) for the smaller-diameter sleeve for supporting the opposite end of the larger-diameter sleeve, the adapter means and one support (21, 30) for the smaller sleeve being a resilient force fit in the respective sleeve to connect the sleeve for rotation with the elongate support (11).