Prior paint edgers

Prior paint edgers included a frame plate having a handle thereon and a backing plate mounted on the frame plate and carrying a mohair patch or the like for applying paint to a surface. The foregoing type of paint edgers had certain deficiencies. More specifically, the backing plate mounting the absorbent pad often bowed cheap oil paintings away from the frame plate, that is, it did not lie flush thereon and this prevented the edging from being as precise as desired.

Furthermore, the handle on prior edgers oil paintings was mounted in a rigid manner so that in the event the user had to reach beyond a certain point, he could experience discomfort in his hands due to the strain inherent in such reaching which, in turn, could cause the edger to lose engagement with the ceiling or other guiding surface so as to destroy the straightness of the edging. It is with an improved paint edger which overcomes the above enumerated shortcomings of the prior edger that the present invention is concerned.

It is accordingly one object of the present invention to provide an improved paint edger in which the handle can pivot about an axis which is abstract oil paintings substantially perpendicular to the surface being edged, thereby under certain conditions, relieving the user's hand from the strain which accompanied the holding of a fixed handle. A related object of the present invention is to provide an improved paint edger in which the handle may be selectively locked in a fixed position or may be pivotally mounted thereon, at the option of the user.