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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael Stewart, Bloomfield, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
222490 ; 222494 ; 222570 ; 141338 ;
Abstract
A lid for a paint container has a body having a peripheral region engageable with an edge of the container so that the body can be mounted on the container, and a central region provided with a slot and formed so that under the action of a weight of a paint applied to the central region, the slot expands and a flow of the paint can flow through the expanded slots.