Paint tray with brush holding attachment

Claim 1

An assembly for simultaneously accommodating a paint roller and a conventional paint brush for painting the walls and ceiling of a dwelling, said brush having a handle with an aggregation of bristles extending longitudinally therefrom at one end thereof, said aggregation of bristles having a lateral width several times greater than its thickness, comprising: a paint tray having a bottom wall which has an incline for at least a part of its length, a front wall, a back wall and a pair of side walls, together defining a receptacle for receiving a paint roller; a paint brush receptacle havng a front wall, a back wall, a pair of side walls, and a bottom wall, the distance between said side walls of said paint brush receptacle being less than the width of said paint brush at said bristled end thereof and greater than the thickness of said brush at said bristled end, said side walls and bottom wall of said paint brush receptacle having a length about equal to the length of one of the paint tray walls so that said paint brush receptacle will receive said paint brush with the wider dimension of said aggregation of bristles inserted in a generally verticle plane with the handle of the brush extending outwardly from the paint brush receptacle in a position where it may be conveniently grasped by the user, said paint brush receptacle having a length sufficient to accommodate a second of said conventional paint brushes oriented in the same vertical plane; and clamp means secured to said paint brush receptacle for removably attaching said paint brush receptacle to a wall of said paint tray, said paint brush receptacle being attachable to either of said side walls of said paint tray and also being attachable to said back wall of said paint tray.