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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1999
Arie Boers, Plymouth, MN (US);
X-Pert Paint Mixing Systems, Inc., Roseville, MN (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a lid member for an original container of a liquid paint component. The lid member is useable with a plurality of different pourable component mixing systems. The lid member includes a base portion that is adapted to releasably engage an open top of the paint component container. The base portion has a pour spout through which the paint component can be dispensed and a movable cover element. The cover element is movable between a closed state, and an opened state, wherein the pour spout is uncovered and the paint component can be dispensed from its original container. A stirring device for mixing the pourable component within the original container is rotatably mounted to the base portion. The stirring device includes a shaft member, at least one mixing paddle mounted to a first end of the shaft member, and a plurality of different paddle actuators. Each of the plurality of paddle actuators is singly mountable to a second end of the shaft member to adapt the lid member to a desired mixing system of the plurality of different pourable component mixing systems.