Paint feeding apparatus in combination with a fountain type paint roller

Claim 1

In a paint feeding apparatus combined with a fountain type paint roller, the combination of a paint feeding apparatus and a paint roller, said apparatus including a case on casters a tray inside said case having a pump mechanism mounted thereupon, said mechanism including an electric motor driving a pump, said tray being vertically movable for placement of a can of paint therebelow, wherein said pump including a case having a circular depression, a flexible hose means inside a periphery of said depression opposite ends of said hose means extending through grooves outward of said case, and a rotating arm having rollers at opposite ends squeezing said hose, said arm being driven from said motor wherein said paint roller includes an inner cylinder receiving paint from said hose means and outer sleeve in spaced relation around said inner cylinder, and a lambs wool around an outer side of said sleeve, openings through a cylindrical side of said cylinder for flow of said paint into a space between said cylinder and sleeve, said sleeve being perforated so said paint flows therethrough and soaks said lambs wool, wherein said arm of said pump is longitudinally adjustable by turnbuckle screw means, wherein said hose means comprises a plurality of flexible hoses adjacent each other, one said hose carrying air while a remainder of said hoses each transmit a different paint color supplied from separate paint cans, wherein also said flexible hoses communicate with a piston reciprocally slidable inside said paint roller cylinder, said piston being connected to an end of a stretchable rubber hose which communicates with said hoses said piston also having a plurality of outlets each of which communicates through an accordian expandable hose to one of said paint carrying hoses, said stretchable hose and said accordian hoses being inside said paint roller cylinder.