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A device is described for holding a paint brush or roller in wet storage in the sealed chamber of a container. The chamber is designed to hold a paint dissolving solvent which creates an atmosphere in which a paint ladened brush or roller remains soft and pliable until it can be thoroughly cleaned,

A device is described for holding a paint brush or roller in wet storage in the sealed chamber of a container. The chamber is designed to hold a paint dissolving solvent which creates an atmosphere in which a paint ladened brush or roller remains soft and pliable until it can be thoroughly cleaned, or until it is reused. The device includes an open top container which is provided with a cover for sealing the chamber, within the container, from the ambient atmosphere. The cover, in turn, is provided with a relatively small opening from which a number of slits, cut through the cover, extend in radial directions. The slits form a plurality of flexible, pie-shaped segments which coact with the opening to readily adapt to receiving various size handles of the paint brush or roller. A unique, flexible seal is tightly wrapped in conical relation around the handle in covering relation with the opening and surrounding segments to seal the chamber and provide a support for the handle to maintain the paint brush or roller in a desired position within the chamber where the bristles of the paint brush and the roller of the paint roller are held in spaced relation from the bottom of the container free of any paint sludge which might settle on the bottom of the chamber. The seal, like the cover, is removably mounted on the container.

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A device for holding a paint applicator, such as a paint brush or paint roller, which has a handle for holding, comprising: (a) a container for holding liquid, such as paint thinner, the container having a closed bottom and sides which define a liquid holding chamber, the container having an open to

A device for holding a paint applicator, such as a paint brush or paint roller, which has a handle for holding, comprising: (a) a container for holding liquid, such as paint thinner, the container having a closed bottom and sides which define a liquid holding chamber, the container having an open top in vertical spaced relation above the bottom, when the container is vertically disposed; (b) a cover sealing the open top of the container, the cover having at least one small opening from which a number of slits, cut through the cover, extend in radial directions to form therebetween, a plurality of pie-shaped segments which are flexible and deflectable upwardly and downwardly out of the plane of the cover, the opening and surrounding flexible segments designed to receive the handle of the paint applicator, the handle extending through the opening exteriorly of the container and held therein such that the vertically lowermost portion of the applicator is maintained in spaced relation above the bottom of the container; (c) means for detachably mounting the cover on the open top of the container; and (d) a reusable, flexible steel, separate from the cover, for conically wrapping around the handle protruding from the container and opening, when the applicator is properly positioned in the container, the seal including (i) a specially shaped piece of elastomeric material which has a pair of opposing ends that are overlapped when the seal is conically wrapped around the handle, and (ii) means carried by each of the opposing ends of the material for repeated, detachable interlocking engagement when the ends of the material are overlapped, to hold the seal in tightly wrapped relation around the handle, the seal designed to rest in supported relation on the cover and to compressively engage the handle and cover the opening and radially oriented slits to seal the chamber from the ambient atmosphere and hold the handle to prevent it from slipping into the chamber of the container, the conical wrapping of the seal designed to form a sturdy support with, in effect, a variable size opening in which differently sized handles can be compressively engaged and supported.