Painter's caddy

Claim 1

In apparatus for holding and carrying a container with paint therein on the person of a painter wherein a paint holding part is movably linked to a belt carried part by a linking means which provides for damped and restrained movement of said container to enable it to remain generally upright under the influence of its weight and the weight of the carried paint without sloshing or spilling as the painter moves about, the improvements which comprise a horizontally projecting member on said belt carried part having a rounded end, a hinge having a pair of leaf members relatively rotatable about a hinge pin, one leaf of said hinge being pivotally attached to said horizontally projecting member for rotation in a horizontal plane, the second leaf of said hinge being attached to and depending from said first leaf by said hinge pin for rotational movement in a substantially vertical plane, said second leaf being also pivotally connected to said paint holding part for rotation of the latter in a vertical plane perpendicular to the plane of rotation of said second leaf about the hinge pin, said second leaf being impeded from unrestrained movement toward the wearer by contact with said rounded end of said horizontally projecting member on said belt carried part, at least one of said pivotal connections of said second leaf providing frictional resistance sufficient to damp any tendency of said paint carrying part to freely oscillate.