EP0728427B1 - Applicateur de produit cosmetique - Google Patents

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EP0728427B1
EP0728427B1 EP96400365A EP96400365A EP0728427B1 EP 0728427 B1 EP0728427 B1 EP 0728427B1 EP 96400365 A EP96400365 A EP 96400365A EP 96400365 A EP96400365 A EP 96400365A EP 0728427 B1 EP0728427 B1 EP 0728427B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B3/00—Brushes characterised by the way in which the bristles are fixed or joined in or on the brush body or carrier
    • A46B3/18—Brushes characterised by the way in which the bristles are fixed or joined in or on the brush body or carrier the bristles being fixed on or between belts or wires
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D40/00—Casings or accessories specially adapted for storing or handling solid or pasty toiletry or cosmetic substances, e.g. shaving soaps or lipsticks
    • A45D40/26—Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball
    • A45D40/262—Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball using a brush or the like
    • A45D40/265—Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball using a brush or the like connected to the cap of the container
    • A45D40/267—Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball using a brush or the like connected to the cap of the container comprising a wiper
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B9/00—Arrangements of the bristles in the brush body
    • A46B9/02—Position or arrangement of bristles in relation to surface of the brush body, e.g. inclined, in rows, in groups
    • A46B9/021—Position or arrangement of bristles in relation to surface of the brush body, e.g. inclined, in rows, in groups arranged like in cosmetics brushes, e.g. mascara, nail polish, eye shadow

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  • the present invention relates to a product applicator cosmetic usable in particular for applying a mascara.
  • Known applicators generally have the disadvantage that, during the extraction of the brush, the rod which supports it causes a piston effect creating inside the container a depression which disturbs the spinning of the brush during its passage to through the constriction.
  • the sudden return of the container to atmospheric pressure is accompanied by a risk of projection onto the mascara brush having accumulated on the wiper member.
  • the mascara thus projected forms clumps on the brush which harm makeup.
  • the object of the present invention is to avoid the drawbacks mentioned above using a simple, reliable and inexpensive means.
  • the present invention relates to an applicator as defined in claims 1 or 10.
  • Internal and external pressure balancing can be done in different ways.
  • this balancing can also be obtained by the fact that a certain amount of cosmetic product is re-aspirated to inside the container by the depression resulting from the withdrawal of the plug stem.
  • the cleaning member can be advantageously constituted by a thin brush or else by a flexible diaphragm made of an easily deformable material.
  • the brush has a diameter which is substantially greater than the constriction diameter.
  • the body of the brush may have an external geometry of various shapes, for example cylindrical, frustoconical, doubly frustoconical or with a rounded profile whose diameter decreases at both ends.
  • the bristle pockets constituting the brush can for example be regularly arranged on the periphery thereof or according to lines parallel to the axis of the brush or according helical lines.
  • the brush can be made in any way and with materials of all suitable natures.
  • the cleaning is at a sufficient distance from the brush so that, when crossing the neck, this organ can deform towards the bottom without noticeably leaning on the brush, which could disturb the spinning of the latter.
  • the brush has continuity with the cleaning device which presents itself also in the form of a brush.
  • the entire brush and the cleaning can advantageously have a fish profile shape, whose tail width is preferably significantly greater than constriction diameter, whose body width is also clearly greater than the diameter of the neck and the part which connects the body at the tail is of a width markedly less than the diameter of the constricted to allow internal pressure balancing and external when removing the brush from the container for sound use.
  • the applicator according to the invention has the advantage of allowing precise spinning of the brush when it is removed from the container, i.e. to allow good control of the amount of cosmetic product that is entrained by brush, quantity that can be determined according to the use we should make of it.
  • the applicator according to the invention also has the advantage avoid that, when reintroducing the brush inside the container, the cosmetic product accumulates in the part of the container which is located above the neck where it would thicken and would harden by gradually closing the passage of the brush.
  • the cleaning member which, according to the invention, located above the brush and whose diameter is preferably slightly larger than the diameter of the part of the container which is located immediately above the neck, sweeps the cosmetic product which is deposited above the neck during the brush passage.
  • the invention makes it possible to keep constantly clean and without accumulation of more or less hardened cosmetic product or mashed, the part of the container which is located above the neck.
  • Figure 1 a schematic sectional view of a cosmetic product applicator according to the state of the art.
  • This applicator comprises a container 1 which comprises, at the inside of its neck, a capsule 2, for example in material plastic, which closes it, leaving an opening 3 forming a constriction and constituting a certain free volume in the neck at the part top of container 1.
  • the opening or constriction 3 is also called wringer.
  • a plug 4 is provided with a rod 5 which has at its part lower a brush 6 whose function is to extract a certain quantity of cosmetic product, with a view to its application.
  • the plug 4 is provided with a thread 7 which cooperates with a thread 8 located at the top of the container 1.
  • the cap 4 is unscrewed and the brush 6 is extracted by passing it through the necked 3, which has the effect of causing the excess of cosmetic composition that the brush would entrain by capillarity out of the container 1.
  • the bottle is capped by introducing the brush 6 through the neck 3, causing a new spin of the brush and causes the deposit of a certain amount of cosmetic composition 10 in the volume of the container which is located above the neck 3.
  • This cosmetic product which has already been exposed to air during the application, is generally more viscous than the product cosmetic 9 which is inside the bottle, so that during successive applications, the amount of cosmetic product 10 that builds up over the narrowed 3 is growing important and that it ends up solidifying by closing off the passage brush 6.
  • the present invention allows, using a simple means, efficient and economical, to eliminate the aforementioned drawbacks.
  • the diameter of the cleaning member 11 is wide enough to be able sweep and return to container 1 the cosmetic product which has deposited above the neck.
  • the brush has a general shape of fish whose body 6 connects to the organ cleaning 11 which constitutes the tail.
  • the part 6a of the brush 6 which connects it to the cleaning member 11 has a diameter which is less than the shrinkage to ensure that during the passage of this part 6a through the constricted 3, the atmospheric pressure can be restored inside the container 1 before the body of the brush 6 engages itself in the constricted 3.
  • the brush 6 has a cylindrical shape with a frustoconical end, the cleaning member 11 being located on the rod 5 a slightly above the brush.
  • This second embodiment of the invention differs from that of Figure 2 by a discontinuity between the brush itself said 6 and the cleaning member 11, which also allows a setting of container 1 in communication with the atmosphere and a rupture of the boosting effect that usually occurs when removes the applicator member from the container.
  • the fact that the cleaning member 11 is separated from the body brush 6 itself by an empty space or lower diameter also has the advantage that, as it ascends towards the top, the cleaning member 11 can easily deform towards the bottom, without significantly deforming the upper part of the brush and without disturb the spinning of the latter when it passes in the constricted 3.
  • the spinning member of the cleaning 11 which thus eliminates a significant part of the product cosmetic that it entails, without disturbing the controlled spinning of the brush 6 which allows to train the latter only a quantity predetermined cosmetic composition.
  • FIG. 5 shows the brush 6 while it is reintroduced into container 1 while being slightly deformed by its passage through the constriction 3. This passage causes the spinning of the brush which deposits part of the unused cosmetic composition at 10 above the neck 3.
  • This cosmetic product 10 is easily discharged into the container 1, as shown by the arrows, due to the free space 6 a which is located between the body of the brush 6 and the cleaning member 11.
  • the lower part 5 a of the rod 5 has, as can be seen in FIGS. 2, 4 and 5, a shape with decreasing diameter, which allows easier passage of the member cleaning 11 through the neck 3.
  • FIG. 8 Another embodiment of FIG. 8 is shown.
  • the brush which in this case has a frustoconical shape.
  • the brush 6 has a generally cylindrical shape and the cleaning member 11 is constituted by a thin diaphragm whose central part is integral with the extension 5 a of the rod 5 and whose periphery is likely to deform elastically to apply to the internal wall of the capsule 2 above the neck 3, then to pass through the neck 3 itself.
  • the diaphragm 11 can optionally be provided with orifices which facilitate the balancing of internal and external pressures.
  • Figure 10 is a sectional view along X-X of Figure 2, where we find the cleaning member 11 which is constituted by a brush of small thickness and circular shape, as well as the brush 6 which, in this case, consists of four rows of bristle pockets arranged at right angles.
  • the cleaning member 11 which is constituted by a brush of small thickness and circular shape, as well as the brush 6 which, in this case, consists of four rows of bristle pockets arranged at right angles.
  • the brush 6 has pockets distributed evenly around its periphery, this last having a section whose general shape is that of a prism with a curvilinear triangular base, while the organ of cleaning 11 has a circular shape.
  • the body of cleaning 11 has a circular periphery, the section of the brush 6 having the general shape of a square with cut corners and concave sides.
  • FIG 13 a cylindrical brush and a cleaning member 11 such as that shown in Figure 9, which is constituted by an easily deformable diaphragm made of an elastic material and having four perforations 11 a .
  • FIG. 14 a variant in which the shape of the upper part 2 a of the constriction 3 has been modified in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention so as to progressively reduce the internal diameter of the capsule 2 in order to to facilitate the evacuation by the constriction 3 of the cosmetic composition which has accumulated above it.
  • FIG. 15 is shown in its real proportions, a preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • the neck 3 has a diameter of 3.8 mm and the rod 5 has a diameter of 3.5 mm.
  • the cleaning member 11 which has a diameter of 5 mm is formed in a single unit with the brush with which it is connected by a part 6 a of 3 mm in diameter.
  • the brush 6 6 in the general shape of a sectioned shuttle has a maximum diameter of 6 mm and a diameter of 4.5 mm at its front end 6 b .
  • the total length of the brush 6 and of the cleaning 11 is 26 mm.
  • the invention is not limited to a particular form of brush and that the latter can be made with pockets arranged according to its generators or according to a helical path around the rod 5, the brush can still be performed with a regular distribution of bristles over its entire periphery.
  • the cleaning member can be produced otherwise than in the form of a flat brush comprising pockets arranged on its periphery or regularly distributed hairs or only in the form of a flexible diaphragm.
  • the cleaning member is sufficiently deformable to sweep the cosmetic composition which is above the constriction and to pass it through the latter.

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FR2730910B1 (fr) 1997-04-11
DE69625729T2 (de) 2003-10-23
BR9600789A (pt) 1997-12-23
EP0728427A1 (fr) 1996-08-28
CA2170093C (fr) 2003-09-30
JP2823832B2 (ja) 1998-11-11
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ATE230947T1 (de) 2003-02-15

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