Metered twist paint stick
CA 2616609 C · Owner: Mcdevitt, Dion M. · Inventors: Kohs, Stephen C.; Simonette, Dallas; Bruggeman, Daniel J.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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An apparatus for painting a surface, having an absorbent paint applicator containing paint and contacting the surface; a tube filled with paint and connected to the applicator; and a metering device for incrementally metering paint onto the applicator from the tube. The metering device has a plunger reciprocating within the tube, with the plunger having a handle. The plunger can either be incrementally advanced within the tube by rotating the handle thereby incrementally dispensing paint onto the applicator or the plunger can , be manually retracted within the tube to fill the tube with paint and manually advanced within the tube to dispense the paint. The plunger is helically …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed June 30, 2006 and granted February 7, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 30, 2026.
- Certificates of supplementary protection extend only drug patents, and it isn't classified as one.
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