Paint roller frame

Claim 1

A SUPPORTING FRAME FOR A PAINT-APPLYING TUBULAR STRUCTURE, SAID SUPPORTING FRAME BEING ROTATABLY MOUNTED IN USE THEREOF AND COMPRISING A PAIR OF SPACED END HEADS AND A PLURALITY OF CIRCUMFERENTIALLY DISPOSED RESILIENT RODLIKE MEMBERS EXTENDING BETWEEN AND CARRIED BY SAID END HEADS, SAID END HEADS BEING OF A SIZE TO GENERALLY SNUGLY FIT WITHIN SAID PAINT-APPLYING TUBULAR STRUCTURE AND SAID ROD-LIKE MEMBERS HAVING PORTIONS THEREOF WHICH NORMALLY EXTEND OUTWARDLY FOR RESILIENT RETAINING ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID TUBULAR STRUCTURE, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID END HEADS HAVING A DISC-SHAPED END WALL, A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL RIM FLANGE, AND A CENTRALLY DISPOSED HUB HAVING A SPINDLERECEIVING BORE, SAID ROD-LIKE MEMBERS HAVING AT ONE END THEREOF INWARDLY EXTENDING END PORTIONS FOR ASSEMBLY WITH THE RIM FLANGE AND THE END WALL OF SAID END HEAD, SAID RIM FLANGE HAVING CIRCUMFERENTIALLY DISPOSED AND LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING GROOVES TO RECEIVE SAID ROD-LIKE MEMBERS ADJACENT THEIR INWARDLY EXTENDING END PORTIONS AND SAID END WALL HAVING INWARDLY EXTENDING GROOVES IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID RIM FLANGE GROOVES TO RECEIVE THE INWARDLY EXTENDING END PORTIONS OF SAID ROD-LIKE MEMBERS, AND SAID RIM FLANGE BEING PROVIDED WITH PROJECTIONS WHICH RESTRICT THE WIDTH OF THE GROOVES THEREIN AND WHICH PROJECTIONS ARE IN SPACED RELATION TO THE BOTTOMS OF SAID GROOVES, WHEREBY IN SEATING THE ROD-LIKE MEMBERS IN SAID RIM FLANGE GROOVES, THE RODLIKE MEMBERS MUST BE PUSHED PAST SAID PROJECTIONS, WITH THE RESULT THAT ACCIDENTAL ESCAPE OF THE ROD-LIKE MEMBERS FROM SAID RIM FLANGE GROOVES IS PREVENTED.