Applicator with individually flexible pad support fingers

US8745808B2 · 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: Jan 25, 2011
• Grant date: Jun 10, 2014
• Expiry date: Nov 29, 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 is configured to apply liquid to a contoured surface. The liquid applicator includes a frame with a laterally extending base and a plurality of elongated fingers spaced laterally along the base. The fingers flex to follow the contoured surface when a liquid application force is applied. The liquid applicator also includes a flexible applicator pad assembly supported on multiple ones of the fingers. The applicator pad assembly is operable to carry liquid and is flexible at least generally with the fingers so as to follow the contoured surface during liquid application.