Applicator with flexible pad and handle

US8713744B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Specialty Products of Greenwood, Missouri, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Jim Joseph Best · Hewitt, US
• Marco Perry · Brooklyn, US
• Mark Prommel · Montclair, US
• Kevin Min O'Leary · Brooklyn, US
• William Lauchlin Gulledge, Jr. · Leawood, US
• William Daniel Richardson · Greenwood, US
• Chad Edward Brott · Greenwood, US
• B. Deré Newman · Lone Jack, US
• Melodie Lea Wendleton · Lee's Summit, US
• Benjamin A. Shobert · Indianapolis, US
• Richard S. Dale · Honeoye Falls, US
• Todd Brunner · Brooklyn, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 12, 2011
• Grant date: May 6, 2014
• Expiry date: May 19, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B05C17/00
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A liquid applicator includes a frame and a flexible applicator pad. The frame includes an elongated handle that presents opposite handle margins and extends in a longitudinal direction between the margins. The flexible applicator pad presents opposite applicator pad ends. The handle margins are coupled relative to the flexible applicator pad adjacent corresponding applicator pad ends. The handle presents an intermediate region that is flexible and spaced from the pad, with the liquid applicator thereby being shiftable into and out of a relaxed applicator condition.