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.

1 . A container with a device for cleaning tools for spreading putties and paints, the container being a tray-shaped container, provided with a lid having an access slot, and the device comprising: a cleaning element provided with two facing surfaces made of abrasive material; and an elastic clamp adapted to be accommodated within said container and adapted to retain, in alignment with the slot in the lid of the container, said cleaning element.  
   
   
       2 . The container with cleaning device of  claim 1 , wherein said lid is openable, the container further comprising locking means for locking said lid in a closed condition.  
   
   
       3 . The container with cleaning device of  claim 1 , wherein said lid is openable and comprises: a perimetric border; a top surface; a recess in said top surface, said access slot being located in said recess and said perimetric border being accommodatable on an edge border of the container.  
   
   
       4 . The container with cleaning device of  claim 3 , wherein said recess in the lid has a transverse, cross-sectional shape of an inverted trapezoid.  
   
   
       5 . The container with cleaning device of  claim 1 , wherein the container is provided with at least one pocket which protrudes from at least one perimetric surface thereof.  
   
   
       6 . The container with cleaning device of  claim 1 , wherein the container is provided with two pockets which protrude from two perimetric surfaces thereof.  
   
   
       7 . The container with cleaning device of  claim 3 , wherein said elastic clamp has a cross-sectional profile of an inverted letter omega, that has a central sunken V-shaped part and two lateral top borders contoured so as to mate with the edge border of the tray-like container, said two lateral top borders being oriented parallel to the slot on said lid, at such a mutual distance that upon coupling thereof to the edge border of the tray-like container facing surfaces of the V-shaped part of said elastic clamp are forced from a mutually spaced position to a position in which said facing surfaces of the V-shaped part are mutually substantially parallel.  
   
   
       8 . The container with cleaning device of  claim 7 , wherein said facing surfaces of the V-shaped part of the elastic clamp are provided with a plurality of openings.  
   
   
       9 . The container with cleaning device of  claim 8 , wherein said facing surfaces of the V-shaped part of the elastic clamp are mutually spaced by an extent adapted to contain two abrasive and porous layers which provide the two facing surfaces of abrasive material of the cleaning element.  
   
   
       10 . The container with cleaning device of  claim 7 , wherein said elastic clamp has two substantially horizontal surfaces that end with said two lateral top borders and connect to sides of the V-shaped part formed by said facing surfaces thereof, said two horizontal surfaces being adapted to support upper borders of the cleaning element when said upper borders of the cleaning element are pressed by the lid.  
   
   
       11 . The container with cleaning device of  claim 1 , wherein said cleaning element is constituted by two fibrous layers which are adapted to perform an abrasive action on surfaces of a tool inserted and moved therebetween.  
   
   
       12 . The container with cleaning device of  claim 10 , wherein said cleaning element is formed by two mutually facing layers which are adapted to be accommodated between the facing surfaces of the V-shaped part of the elastic clamp, with said upper borders of the cleaning element folded on said facing surfaces of the V-shaped part of the elastic clamp, and locked by pressure applied by said lid when arranged in the closed condition.