Abstract: Lightweight, simple rug cleaner for residential use which uses a powdered cleaning composition for the cleaning of carpets. The cleaning composition comes in a throw-away, disposable container which is inserted into the rug cleaner for use.

Abstract: A rotary brush for applying paint to surfaces comprises a housing, a rotatable hollow cylindrical body which bears on the cylindrical surface a plurality of brush units, motor means, passage means for supplying paint from a supply channel to the bristles of the brush units, and a number of stationary guide rings mounted rigidly in the housing and guidingly surrounding the rotatable cylindrical body. The guide rings are disposed in zones transverse to the axis of the cylindrical body and distributed over the length of the same. Each ring bears a slidable bearing means adapted for bearing, for instance with a loose wheel at its free end, against the surface to be painted, thus relieving pressure of the bristles on the surface to be painted.

Abstract: A hand propelled coating device includes a coating product tray reservoir, a feed roller engaging an applicator roller rotatable by frictional drive imparted thereto when the applicator roller is rolled over a surface being coated, and an additional drive wheel with a traction band that is outboard and offset from the tray reservoir and the applicator roller as it coats a desired surface. The additional drive wheel also includes a quick-disconnect arrangement from the driver applicator roller shaft to avoid any wheel surface contact when desired, whereby no wheel marks on the finished surface will be made, it being important to have the additional traction wheel rim out of surface area engagement after the surface is covered with a finished coating.

Abstract: A cleaning device for cleaning phonograph records comprises a grip member th at least one cleaning insert engaged with the grip member and having a record engaging cleaning surface which projects outwardly therefrom which is adapted to rest upon a record to be cleaned. The surface may advantageously be covered by a ribbon or other cleaning cloth which may be wetted with a cleaning liquid. The grip member is provided with a bearing pressure weight member which acts through the grip member on the insert to apply a predetermined cleaning pressure to the record. The grip member advantageously comprises a member having a trough facing outwardly from each side into which an insert is positioned and a weight member is disposed therebetween the trough members. One of the inserts is adapted to rest in a cleaning housing or case so that it contacts a wick which is wetted with cleaning liquid so that its surface or the surface of a cleaning cloth wrapped therearound is wetted at all times.

Abstract: A coatings application apparatus pumps liquid paint through a flexible conduit within a rotary variable displacement peristaltic pump to a conventional applicator head. Through constant speed rotating lobes peristaltic action squeezes coating liquid within the conduit through the paint applicator control handle and applicator.The control handle permits changes in the paint flow rate. Upon constriction of the conduit within the control handle, flow rate is reduced, back pressure develops with resulting tube distortion. Distortion levered forces act upon a pre-set loaded pump spring. Variation in pump displacement results. The liquid flow rate within the supply conduit is inversely proportional to the back pressure so developed. If fluid flow is completely arrested by full supply tube constriction, back pressure becomes a maximum and pump displacement becomes zero. The pump continues to operate, however, at constant R.P.M., requiring no high starting torque.

Abstract: A pressure fed roller type fluid applicator is disclosed which comprises a frame having a handle and spaced means for supporting thereon in free rolling relation an applicator roller together with a fluid feeder member in the form of an elongate tube of small diameter mounted adjacent the exterior surface of the applicator roller and having a perforated wall so as to discharge liquid onto the exterior surface of the roller, the fluid being supplied through conduit forming means extending from a fluid supply source through the handle and connected to the feeder tube, with a conveniently positioned, manually operable, fluid control valve in the supply line.

Abstract: A paint striper device including a cylindrical striper wheel having an outer annular portion of less width than the hub portion on which it is mounted, a housing portion of substantially complementary mating relationship for receiving segments of the outer cylindrical portion and the hub portion to provide good seals therewith, and alternating slots of different depth on the periphery of the outer cylindrical portion for receiving liquid from a container and depositing it on a surface in the form of a stripe.

Abstract: An aerosol cartridge is used to supply foam detergent directly to a polyurethane open cell sponge roller having discrete spaced radial cavities open to the outside for receiving the foam and transfer the same to the fabric of upholstery and the like. The cavities constitute working chambers which tend to be compressed as the lands between the same flex and compress in pressure contact with the fabric upon rolling thereover to thereby force the foam through the fabric, and which then suck the foam back through the fabric as the chambers expand on the back side of the roller. The cavities may be in the form of cylindrical holes burned into the sponge whereby the pores at the inner surfaces of the holes are generally closed by a skin effect.

Abstract: A device for the roller application of liquid coating compositions such as paint is provided comprising;(a) a hollow body portion having an applicator opening at one end and a container opening at the opposite end; said portion containing;(1) a liquid feed tube extending from said applicator opening through said container opening;(2) a solid support member engaging the outside surface of said tube;(3) a rod reciprocatingly mounted in said solid support member and extending through the wall to the inside of said tube;(4) a flexible disc centrally mounted on said rod within said tube having a diameter substantially the same as the inside diameter of said tube;(b) a hollow handle portion contiguous with said body portion having pivotably mounted therein a trigger, said trigger connected by linking means with said rod for reciprocating said rod within said tube;(c) a container for said liquid coating composition mounted in said body portion at said container opening; said tube extending into said container; and(d

Abstract: A deodorant applicator comprising a hand held and manipulated container having an open top, an elongated impregnated web therein, an element closing the container and forming a working head for exposing and supporting the web step by step across its surface for application of the deodorant, the web being led out of the container at its leading end and severed, sheet by sheet, after use.

Abstract: This invention relates to a fluid pressure device and more particularly to a fluid pressure device adapted to be attached to a paint roller applicator for supplying paint from a container to the roller applicator.

Abstract: A cosmetic applicator including a container having a cosmetic containing chamber therein and an elongated slot in one side thereof, a roller comprising a foam rubber cylinder sleeved on a rigid core rotatably mounted on the container in the slot so as to extend radially therefrom, which roller has substantially the same, but slightly larger radial and longitudinal dimensions than the width and length of the slot, and partitions and a metering channel between the container chamber and the roller for guiding the cosmetic onto the roller for application to a body part, and a cover adapted to fit over the slot in the container with the roller mounted on the container.

Abstract: An applicator attachment for facilitating application of cosmetics such as suntan lotion and the like comprising a body member having a threaded opening for attachment to a threaded opening in a cosmetic container, a slot in the body member, a metering channel for connecting the threaded opening to the slot, a roller having substantially the same but slightly larger dimensions than the slot rotatably mounted on the body member in the slot and extending radially out of the slot, and a cover for the applicator attachment removably secured to the body member over the slot.

Abstract: Apparatus for dispensing a fluent composition comprising a casing having a top opening with a stationary or rotatable arcuately surfaced web backing member projecting through the opening and a carrier web bearing the composition passes out of the casing through the opening at one side of the member to closely overlie the member and present a firmly backed convex applicator area outside said casing and then passes back into said casing along the other side of said member. In the preferred embodiments the used areas of the web are rewound within the casing, which may be disposable.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for applying fluid material such as paint to a surface. In the illustrative embodiment the apparatus comprises a wheeled carriage which can be moved along a floor or other support surface and the applicator is an absorbent paint roller. The carriage includes a well for receiving a paint pail and also includes a pump and a conduit for delivering paint from the paint pail to the paint roller. At the paint roller the paint is distributed by a manifold having varying sized ports along the length of the paint roller so as to distribute paint onto the paint roller evenly along its length. More specifically the supply conduit delivers paint to the center of the manifold and the paint flows laterally along the length of the manifold and exits onto the applicator through the ports.

Abstract: A fluid applicator for applying fluid to a surface has a reservoir for fluid. An outlet from the reservoir leads to a roller assembly comprising at least two rollers which are arranged to roll over the surface to be marked so as to apply fluid from the reservoir to the surface in a single line. The roller assembly is removably mounted between side frame members and the surface of each roller is framed by a peripheral sleeve of an absorbent material. The sleeve can then be removed from the applicator for renewal or cleaning.

Abstract: A quickly and easily attachable and detachable device is provided for conventional paint-applying rollers which is suspended in advance of the paint roller and comprises a paint container with a wall-contacting guard; and paint applying pads in communication with the paint container, the latter being adapted to contact the flat portion of a wall as well as jointly contacting both walls closely adjacent a corner.

Abstract: A scrubbing device particularly for use by children. The scrubbing device has a frame in a shape resembling an automobile or other vehicle with four relatively soft scrubbing wheels attached thereto. A cake of soap is disposed within an interior compartment of the frame in contact with the back sides of the rear wheels of the vehicle. Rotation of the rear wheels by movement over the user's skin transfers the soap from the enclosed cake to the skin, with all four wheels providing for scrubbing action.

Abstract: This invention is a paint applicator comprising a pair of hollow cylindrically shaped relatively rigid paint roller segments, slightly spaced apart and axially arranged along a shaft extended therethrough, and having resilient mounting means to accept a handle holding structure thereby enabling the paint roller segments to be rolled across a work surface and adjust themselves with a slight pressure applied on the handle without stopping the rolling action of the paint roller segments when the applicator is being used for painting the underside or bottom of a structural member having a bisecting center line defined by the intersection of two common work surfaces.