Paint brush storing sealable plastic bag

Claim 1

For use when one desires to retentively enclose a wet paint brush and preserve the same ready for use the next following day or, if desired, within a reasonable time period of 5 or 6 weeks, a quick closable airtight brush storing device comprising an envelope-like bag providing an enclosing pouch for said brush and having complemental front and back walls permanently joined along one longitudinal side and permanently joined at their respective transverse ends, the remaining longitudinal edges of the walls opposite said longitudinal side being provided with overlapping top and bottom flaps defining an openable and closable mouth for said bag, said mouth permitting the user to insert and remove the brush at will, the opposed overlapping interior faces of said flaps being adapted to be fastened and optionally closed, said faces having quick connectible and separable fastening means which when fastened closes the entire mouth of the bag, seals the over all pouch, prevents the paint brush from drying out, and maintains it in readiness for use when desired, and, in combination, retaining means carried by and provided interiorly at one end of said bag for detachably connecting the customarily apertured end of the brush handle to said bag, whereby to facilitate retaining the brush in its stored position in the pouch portion of said bag, said bag being provided at said one end with a grommet, said grommet providing an accessible eye which is designed and adapted to hang the bag in a suspended position from a relatively stationary suitably supported bag hanging nail or the like, the aforementioned retaining means comprising a flexible element having a first end portion encircling and connected to said grommet and a second end portion which is formed with a hook passed through the aperture in the brush handle in a manner to hang the brush in said bag after the bag has been conveniently and accessibly hung on said nail.