Container with device for cleaning tools for spreading putties and paints

Abstract

A container with a lid provided with an access slot, which is provided internally with an elastic clamp adapted to retain, in alignment with the slot in the lid, a cleaning element, which comprises two facing layers of permeable and abrasive material, between which a tool to be cleaned is made to slide, the tool being inserted and moved through the slot in the lid.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to a container with a device for cleaning tools for spreading putties and paints, aimed at the field of body shops for industrial machines and vehicles, joiner's workshops, and the building sector. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] In the background art, operators who fill and paint surfaces spread putties with spatulas and stir paints, in order to mix the components, by means of sticks or other slender elongated elements. [0003] As a consequence of use, the surfaces of these tools become covered with the product spread and / or mixed thereby, and said product must be removed before it solidifies in order to allow the tool to remain efficient without having to resort, for its removal, to grinding wheels or other means which might damage such tools. [0004] In the background art, such tools are cleaned normally by using brushes wet by solvent liquids, by means of which the surfaces to be cleaned of the tools are rubbed until the residues of putties ...

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Benefits of technology

[0009] The aim of the present invention is to provide a device for cleaning tools used to spread putties and mix paints which allows to perform cleaning rapidly and efficiently, reducing the time currently dedicated to this operation.

[0010] Within this aim, an object of the invention is to provide a device in which the solvent that helps to clean the tools and sticks is not exposed, or in any case is in a protected position, in order to prevent sparks and cigarette tabs, which currently cause fires, from falling into it.

[0011] Another object is to provide a device which is structured so as to hinder the diffusion in the environment of the vapors of the solvent used to assist the cleaning of the tools, so as to make the work environment more healthy.

Problems solved by technology

This relatively long and laborious operation is normally performed over a tray into which the solvent is poured and on which the tool to be cleaned with the brush is rested.

In this operation, the solvent in contact with the air tends to evaporate and make the environment unhealthy.

Further, this cleaning operation entails dangers, since sparks produced by grinding wheels, cigarette tabs or others may fall onto the tray with the solvent exposed to the air and may set fire to the solvent, with possible propagation of the flames to all the parts wet by the solvent and therefore with the easily imaginable dangers that can derive from this.

Another drawback of the method described above is the need, at the end of the operation, to clean the brush with water and rags in order to protect it from the corrosive action of the solvent, thus contributing to the diffusion of unhealthy vapors in the environment.

Finally, another drawback is the need to leave the wet spatulas and sticks exposed to the air in order to dry, often losing them because they are inadvertently thrown away with paper and other waste products in the trashcan.

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